Lived in Portland for about 30 years. Moved to Gladstone (Clackamas Co.). Guess what I DON'T see anymore... homeless camps, vagrants, or druggies. Haven't heard any gunshots either.
And you’ve got Ben West as a county commissioner now! Ben was awesome as a neighbor and city councilman in Wilsonville! He, John Budaio, and others who fought tooth and nail against Tim Knapp’s corruption are why I stayed as long as I did.
just think fewer residents means all that crime gets spread to fewer tax payers, workers, and producers......you know the junkies and criminals are not leaving because they have no consequences and they get everything handed to them for FREE!!!!
What do expect from a city that treats criminals and the homeless like Royalty but neglects the concerns of the businesses and taxpayers who pay all the bills and salaries 😮😮
When Detroit and Flint went into decline, it was because they were dependent on the Automotive industry. And, so many manufacturing jobs went over seas and years later to Mexico. That is something that can be understood. Portland doesn't have that excuse. Instead, it's people and awful policies creating a pervasive hostile environment for businesses and it's own citizens.
Flint still has a GM plant not aware of any others. its certainly not in mexico. the company i work for sent a few small jobs to mexico and they send us garbage parts. its a real pain dealing with it. their incompetence is astounding.
Born and raised in Flint, yes the automotive industry pulling out a lot of their assets was an issue but the main issue was DEMOCRAT policies… same with Detroit, Saginaw, Pontiac, etc.. when the Republicans ran Detroit it was one of the wealthiest and safest cities in the world.
They moved the SE 82nd store 1/4 mile south, and it's not closing. Like many stores, they are blaming petty theft for other closures, but on-line sales and the pandemic are bigger factors. It's an excuse to lay off employees based on factors beyond their control. They can blame poor people, just like the press saying theft is up (when it isn't) and police budgets have been cut (they haven't). What's dying in Portland is actual reporting.
@@nicknevins628 SE 82nd is Portland. The Holgate store was always going to close after they opened one up the street. Two Walmarts back-to-back makes zero sense. The new one remains open. It's like Fox News - only reporting Black crime. Fear sells. Don't buy it. Shootings are up, targeted shootings, but all other crime is down or the same. PPB has more money than ever, but they like to blame BLM and the poor for their ridiculously poor handling of just about everything involving anyone but Portland's wealthiest. Give me a break. Portland needs real journalists but is otherwise fine.
@@dcrea9416just because one is housed and another isn't doesn't make one an asset or a liability. Some people choose to be homeless to avoid paying the man, and others whom own homes are still well able to commit criminal behavior.
I had two friends move from San Diego to Portland. After what happened to the businesses they both owned and worked for, they are no longer there. Non-stop rioting, too many homeless and a lot of crime.
@@chuckh4077 Idaho already rejected even entertaining the idea of letting impoverished, tax dollar leaching eastern Oregoners become their responsibility.
After 43 yrs living in Portland my son and his wife, my daughter, my wife and I all moved not only out of Portland but out of Oregon three weeks ago. Once a very nice place to live it is sad to see such a decline. By the way we did not vote for these clowns or measures that are ruining this city. Good luck to all who remain and I hope they turn it around to it's former glory soon.
Tired of hearing long term residents say they didn’t vote for this…..you didn’t see it coming over the years? Of course you did, you just turned your head because you were safe in your little protective bubble. 😂😂😂😂
@@GoRideConnor Portland, San Francisco and Seattle are political monocultures. In a monoculture, it doesn't matter how you vote against this stuff when you disagree. Monocultures create political doom loops. As Portland drifted further left, the centrists and conservatives left. Now you can choose between Very Left or Extremely Left. Trying to introduce reason and logic into these environments is futile - you are the adult on the playground being shouted down by a mob of 7th graders. They don't care about making good choices, just winning the argument and high-fiving each other. It's not until Portland experiences a political "rock bottom" that enough people will change their minds and votes.
Perfect analysis. Yes, she is the perfect example of the superannuated Portland adolescent who probably will keep voting for the same destructive people until (and after) she drops dead.
_"It's been really tough for a lot of people through the pandemic ..."_ Utterly clueless that she is representative of exactly why this is happening. Deny and blame. Couldn't possibly be the bankrupt ideology of Portland's policies on crime, justice, and personal accountability, it must be Covid.
that is true. Covid messed me up psycologically and i have not yet recovered and I dont know if i ever will. I have extreme depression now, and think about offing myself on a daily basis. no joke. I think the years of isolation was too much for me. Now im just full of bitterness, sadness, and self loathing :(
Well there is plenty of blame to go around. Corrupt and inept leaders. Hardesty sued the city(Portland) she's supposed to be serving, the secretary of state just resigned cause she was moonlighting as a consultant for a weed company, billionaires like the Nike dude tipping things the way he wants. And yes the voters too. Everyone hates wheeler but they voted him right back in. Kotek was handed the election cause Portland is so liberal and the highest population so it decides the election.
It’s truly sad. My family moved from Mexico to Portland and I remember being in awe how beautiful and amazing it all was and growing up there in the early 2000’s and visiting in the early 2010’s I have very fond memories. I hate what it has become and where it continues to go. I would have loved to go back there to retire at some point but I see little value in Portland nowadays :(
You were in awe of how beautiful *double-checks* ...Portland is? Your beauty standards are quite low. I suggest Gatlinburg, TN Asheville, NC Cashiers, NC Lake Geneva, WI Galena, IL SLC, UT Almost anywhere in central Colorado Miami Beach, FL Roanoke, VA The UP of Michigan Keystone, SD Greenville, SC just to name a few There are so many prettier places in USA than Portland, Oregon.
@@tomyabo5606 I came from an almost 3rd world country dude lol of course I was in awe. And yes even still now to me it has a lot of amazing areas. It had a certain charm that a lot of places don’t have in my opinion. And I’ve been to most of those states around those areas and yeah they are beautiful as well. Currently living in Virginia by the colonial areas and sure it’s gorgeous out here but even still Portland had an amazing charm that actually made me want to visit the downtown back then when most of the time I avoid it in other cities.
@jordankelly4684 - Miami Beach and Miami are two different places. ...even then Miami is still pretty af with all the beautiful marbling and white buildings. It's also cool seeing Lambo's and Rolls Royce' when you're cruising on any major street. If you're one of those anti-Florida people then whatever but coastal Florida has many incredible sites. St. Augustine looks like Europe, Daytona Beach is a fun time during the race, the keys are breathtaking, Naples has mansion after mansion. I lived in Fort Myers for a year and have been all over Florida. Any FL slander will be met with total resistance, bro.
@Juezma52 *Leftist* (woke maniacs ) and actual "liberalism" are two different things in the USA. Liberalism is doing well in managing states like Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota (not Minneapolis), or rhode Island. But woke leftist have their own policies, which isn't even in liberalism. I know liberalism is for stability (stable population and higher taxes), control, and balancing society.
dont under estimate the effect the pandemic had on people. It had a profound effect on me. I still suffer from sever depression from it and near daily suicidal thoughts. The years of isolation and daily anxiety were too much for me 😢. I dont know if I'll ever fully mentally recover.
The sad thing is people like her in the beginning of the video. I am absolutely shocked that she says that it’s basically because of the pandemic, and not because the people and the people that run the city and live in the city decided to make drugs legal.
When the woman who says she is staying cites "the pandemic" as the source of the city's problems, you realize just how doomed the city is with residents being so f'ing clueless.
To be fair....Covid is singularly responsible for high office space vacancies. Now everyone wants to stay working from home. That's happened everywhere. Everything else is on the progressive government policies. Last person leaving Portland, please turn off the lights.
I thought America prided itself on It's ignorance 😅😆😏. Americans wear ignorance like a badge of honour. & now all you are mad at someone because you think they're ignorant? how Ironic?🤥😏😆😅
One time driving on I - 5 about 40 south of Portland, some bum got hit with a car and his body exploded into little pieces all over the freeway. Usually you’ll have to pay to see that kind of action but near Portland it’s free.
You can count on a homeless bum getting obliterated by a car on MLK by Delta Park once a year. The tent people aren’t too bright walking across the road with dark clothing. They are so arrogant they actually expect you ( the one driving) to stop for them. Nope!
The great reset. Clear out the old real Americans and import loyal voters then you can do anything. Just keep the addicts sedated in their areas. And you'll own the city. Who's left to say what you do with the budget.
The rise in crime boomed under trump, it’s the whole country wide, just also here. Everywhere is having problems. Small towns are having problems. Texas has the fastest growing mass murder rate. Compared to gun violence all of Oregon last year ( being the closest full year we can estimate) accounted for 1,698 gun violence shootings , but Texas was 28,666, most of which Texas was mass shootings. What’s their excuse for Portland now? If people are arguing politics is the reason then it’s still better than opposing politics.
Can't believe how much house prices have been crashing here in Portland Oregon. Family from the Philippines lost all their money by investing in real estate here in Portland.
Sincerely, that is unfortunate but you have to realize that the market here rose with an influx of people the likes of which Oregon had never experienced, The market is still unbearably high and is not even close to being reasonable. Affordability is a huge problem and the sad reality is that many Oregonians were priced out of communities they spent their whole lives in. That is tragic.
Real estate prices are definitely not "crashing." Home prices have seen a slight dip in Portland for median price homes due mostly in part to very high interest rates, causing millions of homes across the United States to become unaffordable. The rate went from 2.99% to above 7% in 2022 which means many are priced out of home buying or will no longer qualify for loans. It would be very difficult to "lose all your money" investing in Portland RE. Still a very hot market.
Worst part is, the people who have voted for a system that failed are simply moving to other cities to perform the exact same social experiment expecting different results.
@@Hershal13I grew up in Lake Oswego and during that time I watched my neighborhood change with Orange county developers, after ten years it was full of Californians complaining about rain and constantly using a leaf blower to clean pine needles, same thing happened I Seattle and western Montana, now they're moving to Tennessee and Georgia for the same reason they came to the west, cheap land, cheap housing. In 1992 my mom bought her house in LO for $188,000 5 years ago she sold it for $1,100,000 and it was for land only, she could barely afford the property taxes. This is just an example of many, if you live in a nice area with cheap housing, bet on your city to transform like this.
What he failed to mention, was the demographics of those that are leaving. Ages 30-60 are leaving. The people with most of the money. Portland is a dying city.
Yes, Portland AND Oregon are dying, along with neighboring Vancouver. It’s a dumpster fire. Everyone needs to leave and people outside need to stop coming here. There are far better states to live in. Everywhere else is better than here. Everyone stay away!
I'll never understand far left thinking. Imagine being in the one of the most livable cities in America, and deciding, "You know what this place needs? A police force shamed into nonexistence so the streets can become open drug markets attracting every junkie on the west coast. Also to honor a guy killed 1,000 miles away in Minneapolis, let's burn down our own city and treat all attempted acts of law enforcement as oppression. Finally, let's wonder with confusion while the sane people with jobs that were funding the livability of the city, decided to move to other cities. Yep. That's what this Most Livability City needs!"
That’s how democrats work man, they’re nearly impossible to understand if you have a logical mindset. If you’re an emotional freak you may be able to empathize with them
This isn’t far-left thinking. But I’m sure you’re an expert on ideology. Portland is a hub of neoliberalism. Which is wildly different than socialism/communism.
@@atrainradio929 I like how you're pretending I said the word "socialism/communism". Play semantic games with yourself. Call what's going on in Portland "far left thinking", or "mentally retarded politics", or whatever term you'd like. My point is, with roughly 95% reliability, when you walk the streets of a large American city in 2023 and it's overrun with vagrancy, homelessness, open drug markets, indifferent policing of theft, etc., you are walking through a city where most of the prominent politicians are Democrats, and identify as liberals. I don't care what pretentious academic social science ego trip your douchebag comment wants credit for. Tell your mom to give you a sticker or something. In real world terms, the things going on in Portland are what most Americans refer to as "far left". And the fruits of far left politics are routinely the destruction of city livability.
I don't believe this is a shock to anyone but the people that live in Portland. The lifestyle is what people voted for in Portland. It really amazes me how oblivious people are.
Portland was a great place back in 2015. I remember visiting it and falling in love with it and moved there with a friend. Shame what they did to the place.
@@DieselRamcharger your comment is so discouraged..... We??? Because we don't have the cajones to Civil arrest all the criminal politicians that run this city???or we the military , national guard etc... For not arresting the criminals are collapsing the country in DC??
The housing crisis and rent hikes are a "National" issue and not just in blue states. So is the Meth, Fentanyl and opioid addictions. Portland has its problems for sure but its happening in red states too!... Greed & Corruption does not discriminate, in infects anyone who allows it to happen to them and the horrible choices they make!...
Because years of gentrification and people moving from out of state raising prices on everything especially housing. Portland is for the wealthy now and people that can't afford it are moving.
They're not the biggest problem. They're just generic parasitic politicians. It's the voters who are the problem, and very sadly all of Oregon outside Portland-Eugene has to suffer.
Portland is the way it is because the people voted for it to be that way, which is a far greater shame that a population said "we have one of the best places to live on earth, let's ruin it for no reason." Any politician they elect to further that goal is just a symptom of the disease.
They won't be thriving for much longer because all the major stores are closing. Walmart just announced they will be leaving due to becoming unprofitable. With the stores gone these wonderful people will have nobody else to "redistribute" wealth from and so will go their ability to live.
Homeless people and criminals don't vote LMAO. Imagine thinking the people already not positively contributing to society vote. Most people don't even vote in the first place
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
There's an old saying " When your enemy is committing suicide, just get out of the way." The "progressive policies" that Portland wear so proudly are the enemy of the average person.
No one votes for their city to be destroyed, don't be an idiot. Greed & Corruption infects anyone that allows it to happen and they make horrible decision in the process. There are major homeless issues, drug addictions, crime and housing crises across America including Red States and we all know it!...
Philly, Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Boston, NYC Seattle, and every other Democrat dominated hellhole, where cost of living is comically high like the crime and political corruption.
i'm Italian, I've been to Portland in April for business. I loved the people there, but it was astonishing, and I mean astonishing how badly run that city was. And I'm Italian! Homelessness everywhere, crime (they broke my car windows) and general insecurity. It's a shame because you can see this used to be a great city.
We made the move. There are plenty of other very nice states in the US besides the west coast. I lived in California my whole life and just left last year and despite what all of my snobby friends back in LA think, the rest of the country is not just Kansas and Alabama. It’s actually quite nice where we moved and most importantly safe. Rule of law still applies and people help one another.
@@MrSheckstr textbook definition of putting your head under the blanket and thinking the monsters will go away. When psychopaths get away with sh!t, they are extremely emboldened. Between ‘bail reform’ and the media astroturfing rioting, theft and assault…Portland as a city = 😬😬😬
Oh, She "knows" that the far right racists have made it difficult for all the minorities to live peacefully and the mostly peaceful Antifa was just fighting for their lives. She also knows that the Orange Hitler and his buddy Putin are making a list of next holocaust victims and if it was not for her progressive vote America would witness genocide of 10 billion people of color and all genders. She confirms this with TV and news papers so many times. She is a shero for a reason.
Hopefully you left the whole state of Oregon too. It’s a dumpster fire. You don’t want to live in this city nor the state. It’s better everywhere else. Stay away.
Yup. It funny how the news just tried to twist the narrative that it was due to violence. Also saying business down town were vacant . But if they did research it’s easy to see around the country more ppl are working from home their for not as many people working in offices down town which will effect little business also because no one to buy from them. That’s not crime causing business to leave its people working from home and high house price and tax .
You sir are completely clueless and a narcissist. Why do I say this? Because you can never admit when you were wrong and at fault. Do answer me this why is it when I go to the suburban retail shopping outlet centers and malls how come they are full of people shopping and spending money? I bet you can’t answer it can you? Let me clue you in, the suburbs have a functional police force, no one is being robbed and shot and people feel safe and comfortable going out and shopping, eating, movies and entertainment. If what you said was true all would be down across the board. You won’t even recognize the truth because the truth destroys your narrative and fantasies.
@barryon8706 clueless leftist: because, um, it's so modern and progressive, it has many more laptop commuters that can work from home, or something. Definitely not crime, lawlessness, rampant homelessness or high taxes, that don't exist but we also fully support and apologize for...you're just a racist fascist!!!
The problem is that she genuinely doesn't know any better. She's not well informed because the "news" she sees never connects the dots. She probably has no clue how well other parts of the country are doing. The media is, at least, partially responsible for what has happened in Portland, and elsewhere.
@@operator0this is a good point. There are literally communities of people who still track Covid numbers, wear masks everywhere and fear for their lives. Humans are grass eating herd animals.
Visiting friends in Portland last month and came across multiple real life "Portlandia" situations including one guy who said that the TV show was to blame for Portland's problems. That was a good one. I'm so glad I left that city and it's lame, ball-less citizenry.
An entire population addicted to vice and ignorance, even the non-religious can see the similarities to the city of Sodom. It won't need to be wiped out by an asteroid like the original, the cause of destruction is mearly an allegory for the people themselves, they ARE the disaster and they are destroying themselves.
🤣🤣🤭 Read SOCIETY AGAINST ITSELF: Political Correctness (now Woke) and Organizational Self-Destruction, Howard S. Schwartz author. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
It's a well deserved title. It should be a warning about voting habits. But, it isn't. Instead, it's everyone pointing the finger. All the while, Portland's "leaders" are still collecting income.
Portland citizens lack of understanding of why Portland is failing is a key reason for people fleeing unable to elect in people to deal with the issue.... (Blaming COVID when the world when through it, and some regions in deveoping nations dealt with it much worse)
I used to love Portland's and lived there for a number of years. I left when it started becoming an intolerable mix of hipster and homeless, and I can't imagine living there again unless there is a major shift. I miss old Portland. And really the whole state. It's not the same relaxed, brew pub, go on a hike and go back to your cute neighborhood vibe anymore. Extremism on every side has taken over what used to be a great independent state.
I was born and raised in Hood River. What I noticed was how heartfelt people pandered to homeless people and gave them meal cards and such. Then, it seemed like every drug addict on the west coast migrated to Portland because the people there were just trying to help. Then the social problems exploded, because it attracted that lifestyle, if you want to call it that. There were never this many homeless people in Portland. You’d see some in Portlands Old Town area mostly.
I lived there for 20 years and left in 2020… I’m SO glad to be out of a huge city with exorbitant property taxes, utility costs, godawful traffic and ever increasing crime… however I have TONS of wonderful memories from my 20’s and 30’s there and am grateful I got to experience Portland in all its glory and grotesqueries. It will forever hold a special place in my heart ✨ 💛✨
It used to be great. I miss those days. I've lived in Vancouver, WA my entire life. Going over the bridge to Portland was always an great adventure. Now, everyone avoids it like the plague. It's really sad.
Its not just in certain parts of America.. the city where i live in Canada has been getting worse year by year as well.. downtown has lost lots of businesses due to the crime and homelessness.
The situation in San Francisco is very similar. I live across the bay from SF in Berkeley and used to enjoy riding the BART and visiting the city. I haven't been there in over 10 years and have no desire to be in that dangerous and dirty place that is infested with hordes of drugged out and psychotic homeless zombies.
LOL, Berkeley is so nice without any crime or homeless. What a moron. Sacramento where I live is bad, EVERYWHERE is bad, when even a full time job can't pay for an apartment, and people wonder what's wrong.
@@deadtome44 it’s like these people saw homeless people on a corner and exaggerate it each time more and more like a fishing story. Homelessness is a problem, particularly in SF. But these online commenters exaggerate these things to ludicrous extents.
@@deadtome44 I like your understated sense of humor. I left SF in 2015 because even then it was beyond disgusting and dangerous. And in 2017 I left California.
@@markg1531 I’m not joking, but I’m glad you found a place you like (hopefully). Maybe it’s because I know where not to go, but I was in a few different spots and had no issues. One thing is for sure though- the big city isn’t for the naive.
All the Uber-Liberal cities are losing people, from residents to tourism, people just don't want to go there. We were supposed to go at the end of June for a business meeting and we are not going. Also, most in our business owners' group don't want to go either. High crime with no accountability, coupled with high homeless population and drug use are the downfall of these cities. You get what you vote for. We will take our money elsewhere.
YEP! Portland is the POSTER city, if you want your once vibrant city to go down into the CESSSPOOL toilet. Portland, especially downtown core is ONE BIG OPIUM DEN.😳
letting landlord trash assault, threaten, harass, abuse , illegally evicT and stEal property from paying Tenants is an act of war? Vile rotten crooked cops and dangerous landlord trash
Drugs weren't legalized. The state of Oregon voters decriminalized the penalties for someone with a small amount because that made up the majority of pointless arrests. Get real. Drugs aren't legal. But hey,someone with a mush brain just can't understand that.
It's an example of how even good policies can be bad if they're implemented stupidly. If the funding for the Portland Police had been shared with the mental health professionals who would pick up the load for the appropriate calls, had been put in place (which is what the dumb slogan "defund the police" actually means)...AND, they had put the appropriate drug and mental health infrastructure in place to deal with addicts and recovery, either of these ideas could have worked. If anything, it's a classic example of "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" thinking. They forgot the five P's. "Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance".
they do not understand the difference between legallization and decriminalization. I'm all for decriminalization. The difference is when drugs are decriminalized, they are still illegal, and will be confiscated, you just wont go to prison for having a personal amount on you. And you must go to mandatory rehab. Dealers will still get arrested and go to prison. Thats the Portugal system. Its NOT, hey you can openly do all the drugs you want and stand like zombies in the city center...how dumb are american law makers?
Exactly. I saw what was coming in 2011 and left and never looked back. Among other indicators, I could see there were too many adolescents who would never in my estimation grow up; having a father and step-mother in their 60s (at the time) whom are still to this day superannuated Portland adolescents perhaps helped me see this. My judgment and decision have been affirmed far more than i would have anticipated.
Exactly foolish people that think they're hippies when they don't understand how things work they just join a bandwagon of liberals and think they're righteous, they are the new dying breed
People keep blaming Wheeler, their DA, and their twisted governor, but I argue that they are all just doing exactly what their insane voters want. Congratulations, Portland, for your utopia.
I had to visit an account in downtown Portland in 2017 and the streets scenes reminded me of when I worked in India. Everywhere you went there were beggars in rags.
I fly all over. Only blue cities do we get warnings to be careful going out of hotel to eat due to crime. The gentleman is right, it’s been slowly dying for the past decade.
No Longer City of 🥀 Rose, High Taxes, High Crimes, High Homeless & Local Government is not doing much of anything to much it better place to live or traveling destinations. Portland police force and emergency service is too busy responding to drug overdose. Time to vote for republican.
Right? I see it as, unfortunately they've built their whole world views around principles which don't hold true in the real world, and admitting they were wrong would force them to reevalutate everything they've built their lives around.
Went there last year as a tourist. Garbage everywhere from the homeless. Tents. Burned out cars. Was hard to find a place to stay that didn't seem sketchy. We went to a store and security were stopping a shoplifter. The zoo was nice.
Years back we stayed at a downtown hotel to attend a wedding. Really loved the downtown area...fast forward 12 years and we visited the same area. Now greeted with boarded up storefronts, empty businesses, open drug use (and sales), people living in the parks, mentally disturbed people hassling pedestrians, open air toilets, trash strewn about, and our car was vandalized and broken into.(to which the police refused to reply) We witnessed open shoplifting in a store. "Gee I wonder why WE have to pay for items when "they" dont?" We also heard gunfire during the night. We'll NEVER enter Portland again. It's quite obvious why people are leaving in droves, it's an "open/lawless" city with no law enforcement.
To be fair about the shoplifting, unless someone like Loss Prevention or Asset Protection is there, Managers and Employees, typically because of retail policies everywhere now, we literally are not allowed to get involved or we'll get fired. Because for some reason, thieves feel entitled enough to sue even tho they're in the wrong.
It’s almost unbelievable that Portland once was voted to be the most livable city.
Not anymore.
Perspective
That wasn't too long ago. 😢
All Dems and Biden supporters They voted for this mess
@@scottconlon5124 Exactly. If you're a homeless drug addict, it's the best city EVER!
@@JESUSisLORD24151 Perhaps since the implementation of Measure 110 a few years? Hmmm?
Lived in Portland for about 30 years. Moved to Gladstone (Clackamas Co.). Guess what I DON'T see anymore... homeless camps, vagrants, or druggies. Haven't heard any gunshots either.
Happy Rock.
Same here. Close enough, but also far away enough.
dont worry you dipshits will ruin that soon enough too.
I bet you still vote Democrat too.
And you’ve got Ben West as a county commissioner now! Ben was awesome as a neighbor and city councilman in Wilsonville! He, John Budaio, and others who fought tooth and nail against Tim Knapp’s corruption are why I stayed as long as I did.
Rampant crime, drugs , thugs , murderers, drug dealers, robbers etc.. no wonder 🙄
Hey you just described BLM
just think fewer residents means all that crime gets spread to fewer tax payers, workers, and producers......you know the junkies and criminals are not leaving because they have no consequences and they get everything handed to them for FREE!!!!
What do expect from a city that treats criminals and the homeless like Royalty but neglects the concerns of the businesses and taxpayers who pay all the bills and salaries 😮😮
When Detroit and Flint went into decline, it was because they were dependent on the Automotive industry. And, so many manufacturing jobs went over seas and years later to Mexico. That is something that can be understood. Portland doesn't have that excuse. Instead, it's people and awful policies creating a pervasive hostile environment for businesses and it's own citizens.
Good concise logical point
Flint still has a GM plant not aware of any others. its certainly not in mexico.
the company i work for sent a few small jobs to mexico and they send us garbage parts. its a real pain dealing with it. their incompetence is astounding.
Can’t argue with that
High rents created homeless addicts came over to ruin it
Born and raised in Flint, yes the automotive industry pulling out a lot of their assets was an issue but the main issue was DEMOCRAT policies… same with Detroit, Saginaw, Pontiac, etc.. when the Republicans ran Detroit it was one of the wealthiest and safest cities in the world.
When even Wal-mart pulls out of your city because of crime, you have a major problem.
Walmart just went out to buy cigarettes
Walmart sucks.
They moved the SE 82nd store 1/4 mile south, and it's not closing. Like many stores, they are blaming petty theft for other closures, but on-line sales and the pandemic are bigger factors. It's an excuse to lay off employees based on factors beyond their control. They can blame poor people, just like the press saying theft is up (when it isn't) and police budgets have been cut (they haven't). What's dying in Portland is actual reporting.
Walmart was never in Portland
@@nicknevins628 SE 82nd is Portland. The Holgate store was always going to close after they opened one up the street. Two Walmarts back-to-back makes zero sense. The new one remains open. It's like Fox News - only reporting Black crime. Fear sells. Don't buy it. Shootings are up, targeted shootings, but all other crime is down or the same. PPB has more money than ever, but they like to blame BLM and the poor for their ridiculously poor handling of just about everything involving anyone but Portland's wealthiest. Give me a break. Portland needs real journalists but is otherwise fine.
The population of the streets certainly isn't declining. Only residents and businesses.
That's the truth!! Good point, only workers and tax payers moving away.
So basically, the members of society who assets and not liabilities are leaving?
@@dcrea9416more like they'll keep hiking rent until even the middle class is on the streets. Let em be equal(ly robbed)
@@dcrea9416just because one is housed and another isn't doesn't make one an asset or a liability. Some people choose to be homeless to avoid paying the man, and others whom own homes are still well able to commit criminal behavior.
Homeless don't pay property taxes. Those people that are leaving, did.
Thanks to your city leaders for doing nothing about the homeless and not protecting the taxpayers and businesses.
Marge, what city or state are you in? Just a troll.
The worse thing that can happen to a liberal is they get what they virtual signaled, I mean voted for.
Yes, you are a troll....i live a half hour away from Seattle
So pathetic they let new landlords threaten, harass, harm, injure, steal homes from and illegally evicT paying tenants.
@@olecamohatmcgilicudy4256 A non-paying tenant is a thief. There is no right to free housing.
I had two friends move from San Diego to Portland. After what happened to the businesses they both owned and worked for, they are no longer there. Non-stop rioting, too many homeless and a lot of crime.
Where'd they end up going?
@@MaddieMaddocksmy buttholle
Non stop rioting? Too many Homeless? Huh ? I'm from LA. What are you talking about.
LIBERAL IDEAS
Entire counties want to leave Oregon just to get away from Portland's political influence.
Ikr. Hope they win and join idaho
@@chuckh4077 Idaho already rejected even entertaining the idea of letting impoverished, tax dollar leaching eastern Oregoners become their responsibility.
Yes, that is called hating democracy. If we only lived in a minority rule country…where I ruled.
@@JJM_PNW we are not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic.
@@JJM_PNW Portland is not a real democracy. It's been corrupted by Marxists to oppressed normalcy and invite insanity into society
So you're saying that whole 'Defund the Police' idea didn't really pan out? Fascinating!
portland police was never defunded. they actually have more funding now then they had in 2020.
@@thecircleandthesquare8980 You're wrong, do a quick google search on the topic...
@@thecircleandthesquare8980 you're sorely mistaken on that. PPB budget was drastically slashed.
@@thecircleandthesquare8980 if the DA doesn't prosecute, what does the police budget even matter?
@@thecircleandthesquare8980 they vilified and demoralized their police.
Escape from Portland! Coming to a theater near you. 😂😂😂😂
After 43 yrs living in Portland my son and his wife, my daughter, my wife and I all moved not only out of Portland but out of Oregon three weeks ago. Once a very nice place to live it is sad to see such a decline. By the way we did not vote for these clowns or measures that are ruining this city. Good luck to all who remain and I hope they turn it around to it's former glory soon.
Born and raised here and I’m moving out too, used to be such a gem and now it’s trash!
Tired of hearing long term residents say they didn’t vote for this…..you didn’t see it coming over the years? Of course you did, you just turned your head because you were safe in your little protective bubble. 😂😂😂😂
@@GoRideConnor Portland, San Francisco and Seattle are political monocultures. In a monoculture, it doesn't matter how you vote against this stuff when you disagree. Monocultures create political doom loops. As Portland drifted further left, the centrists and conservatives left. Now you can choose between Very Left or Extremely Left. Trying to introduce reason and logic into these environments is futile - you are the adult on the playground being shouted down by a mob of 7th graders. They don't care about making good choices, just winning the argument and high-fiving each other. It's not until Portland experiences a political "rock bottom" that enough people will change their minds and votes.
@@jcasetnl you mean they haven't hit rock bottom yet? 😯
They would have to acknowledge it first, and they never will.
I love the woman you interviewed..she epitomizes why Portland is in decline. She is absolutely “clueless and lost in the woods”! Perfect 👏
the politicians she votes for say just a little bit more taxes and a little more time and a little more love and compassion and it will all be utopia
she's hot af. Milf for sure or even gilf :)
Perfect analysis. Yes, she is the perfect example of the superannuated Portland adolescent who probably will keep voting for the same destructive people until (and after) she drops dead.
The white woman will be made to examine here privilege in the face of AI. The future.
It's great how you're able to extrapolate so much from so little. You must be a real genius of a money manager.
_"It's been really tough for a lot of people through the pandemic ..."_ Utterly clueless that she is representative of exactly why this is happening. Deny and blame. Couldn't possibly be the bankrupt ideology of Portland's policies on crime, justice, and personal accountability, it must be Covid.
that is true. Covid messed me up psycologically and i have not yet recovered and I dont know if i ever will. I have extreme depression now, and think about offing myself on a daily basis. no joke. I think the years of isolation was too much for me. Now im just full of bitterness, sadness, and self loathing :(
@@DeepFriedDave Damn bro, chill.
How true.Covid had absolutely nothing to do with the fall of Portland.
@@NeiltheDeal sometimes people get mentally Ill. You can’t chill them from it.
That's a typical democratic voter.
Blame Wheeler and especially that awful DA who is very soft on criminals.
How do you blame the people you all voted for? Radical nit-wit liberals tripping over themselves to keep inept leadership… in leadership.
Oh yeah it would never be the fault of the wealthy corporate real estate investors noooo
Blame the voters more
Well there is plenty of blame to go around. Corrupt and inept leaders. Hardesty sued the city(Portland) she's supposed to be serving, the secretary of state just resigned cause she was moonlighting as a consultant for a weed company, billionaires like the Nike dude tipping things the way he wants. And yes the voters too. Everyone hates wheeler but they voted him right back in. Kotek was handed the election cause Portland is so liberal and the highest population so it decides the election.
Blame liberal voters who can't help but voting for those bozos.
It’s truly sad. My family moved from Mexico to Portland and I remember being in awe how beautiful and amazing it all was and growing up there in the early 2000’s and visiting in the early 2010’s I have very fond memories. I hate what it has become and where it continues to go. I would have loved to go back there to retire at some point but I see little value in Portland nowadays :(
All the peaceful protesting was bad...😂😂😂😂😂😂
You were in awe of how beautiful *double-checks* ...Portland is?
Your beauty standards are quite low. I suggest Gatlinburg, TN
Asheville, NC
Cashiers, NC
Lake Geneva, WI
Galena, IL
SLC, UT
Almost anywhere in central Colorado
Miami Beach, FL
Roanoke, VA
The UP of Michigan
Keystone, SD
Greenville, SC just to name a few
There are so many prettier places in USA than Portland, Oregon.
@@tomyabo5606 I came from an almost 3rd world country dude lol of course I was in awe. And yes even still now to me it has a lot of amazing areas. It had a certain charm that a lot of places don’t have in my opinion. And I’ve been to most of those states around those areas and yeah they are beautiful as well. Currently living in Virginia by the colonial areas and sure it’s gorgeous out here but even still Portland had an amazing charm that actually made me want to visit the downtown back then when most of the time I avoid it in other cities.
@tomyabo5606 you invalidated your own opinion by including miami beach there. Miami is one of the worst placea in the world.
@jordankelly4684 - Miami Beach and Miami are two different places. ...even then Miami is still pretty af with all the beautiful marbling and white buildings. It's also cool seeing Lambo's and Rolls Royce' when you're cruising on any major street.
If you're one of those anti-Florida people then whatever but coastal Florida has many incredible sites. St. Augustine looks like Europe, Daytona Beach is a fun time during the race, the keys are breathtaking, Naples has mansion after mansion. I lived in Fort Myers for a year and have been all over Florida. Any FL slander will be met with total resistance, bro.
Portland is a prime example of what is wrong with voting with feelings and emotions.
You actually mean what is wrong with radical leftist ideology.
Of course portlands issue is white supremacy police racism oppression inequality and all those right wongers
@@Juezma52 well they dig into peoples emojions so isnt that the same
@Juezma52
*Leftist* (woke maniacs ) and actual "liberalism" are two different things in the USA. Liberalism is doing well in managing states like Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota (not Minneapolis), or rhode Island. But woke leftist have their own policies, which isn't even in liberalism. I know liberalism is for stability (stable population and higher taxes), control, and balancing society.
It’s not who votes that matters, it’s who’s counting.
The worst part is, all the people that are leaving will move somewhere nice and start agitating and voting for the same policies that ruined Portland.
We need to drop a dome on that city. Just like the Simpsons
Dude, that is not at all how it works. Most people who leave don’t vote the same way. If they did, that wouldn’t make any sense.
Junkies ruined Portland
@@e.n.strowd1949 no that is most definitely how it works just look at cities in other states that are being flooded by Californians
They fixed Portland, now they need to move into other States to fix.
Pandemic. Are you serious lady it's the crime and criminals running wild
It's hilarious how all these shitholes keep blaming it on the scamdemic as if it only affected certain cities.
Exactly!
you lack critical social science skills. The Pandemic decreased police and increased crime. please dont be an idiot forever
She voted for it and will do so again so she is going to point to something else.
dont under estimate the effect the pandemic had on people. It had a profound effect on me. I still suffer from sever depression from it and near daily suicidal thoughts. The years of isolation and daily anxiety were too much for me 😢. I dont know if I'll ever fully mentally recover.
The sad thing is people like her in the beginning of the video. I am absolutely shocked that she says that it’s basically because of the pandemic, and not because the people and the people that run the city and live in the city decided to make drugs legal.
Imagine listening to BLM and actually cutting your police budget - the city is an SNL skit at this point
Worse, listening to Antifa
"but but but b but Jan. 6!!!!" lol
ok blame it on the NEGRO’S and NONE OF THEM even live there NICE TRY !
Mayor WHEELER and ex commissioner and anti police Hardesty even joined in and supported the BLM festivities to defund the police.🤔
Imagine living in an SNL skit, and still voting Democrat
When the woman who says she is staying cites "the pandemic" as the source of the city's problems, you realize just how doomed the city is with residents being so f'ing clueless.
To be fair....Covid is singularly responsible for high office space vacancies. Now everyone wants to stay working from home. That's happened everywhere. Everything else is on the progressive government policies. Last person leaving Portland, please turn off the lights.
She's just an npc. Problem is she votes
I thought America prided itself on It's ignorance 😅😆😏. Americans wear ignorance like a badge of honour. & now all you are mad at someone because you think they're ignorant? how Ironic?🤥😏😆😅
They had these problems way before the pandemic. They coddled Antifa so much..they literally just let them have it all
I ABSOLUTELY HATE ANTIFA
I'm sure it has nothing to do with legalizing all drugs, defunding the police, or the outrageous taxes to live there
And open border with a sanctuary city status
No sales tax!
@@methus57 we have state income tax. Don't need a sales tax. Sales taxes are dumb.
They didn't legalize all drugs, but they may as well have.
I continuously hear from atheist leftists that they don't need God to live a moral life. So why are regressive cities ruined by their filth?
One time driving on I - 5 about 40 south of Portland, some bum got hit with a car and his body exploded into little pieces all over the freeway. Usually you’ll have to pay to see that kind of action but near Portland it’s free.
You can count on a homeless bum getting obliterated by a car on MLK by Delta Park once a year.
The tent people aren’t too bright walking across the road with dark clothing. They are so arrogant they actually expect you ( the one driving) to stop for them.
Nope!
All thanks to Ted Wheeler and his cronies!!!
The great reset. Clear out the old real Americans and import loyal voters then you can do anything. Just keep the addicts sedated in their areas. And you'll own the city. Who's left to say what you do with the budget.
And the braindead cultists who vote for him.
Ted was voted in by the people. He did not just appear.
@@SOLDOZER Hitler was voted in by the people. He did not just appear.
@@SOLDOZER And Ted will be re-voted in, once his term is up, they will elect another leftist.
Really starting to feel like there is a concentrated effort to destroy this country from the inside.
now you're starting to catch on
You're aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer are you? Just now realizing that?
Is there a response to this effort ? The one that can’t be spoken about.
Because there is.
@@kaptainkurt7261 Yes. SPEAK THE NAME GEORGE SOROS. Say it without fear. He is the one doing this.
It's so weird. It's almost as if there's a connection between undermining law enforcement and a rise in crime.
They'll NEVER figure out there actually is a connection.
whoda thunk?
They should have installed police boxes.
American style policing, hiding in patrol cars.
The rise in crime boomed under trump, it’s the whole country wide, just also here. Everywhere is having problems. Small towns are having problems. Texas has the fastest growing mass murder rate. Compared to gun violence all of Oregon last year ( being the closest full year we can estimate) accounted for 1,698 gun violence shootings , but Texas was 28,666, most of which Texas was mass shootings. What’s their excuse for Portland now? If people are arguing politics is the reason then it’s still better than opposing politics.
@@OK-pi6fq 🤡🤡🤡
Can't believe how much house prices have been crashing here in Portland Oregon. Family from the Philippines lost all their money by investing in real estate here in Portland.
Sincerely, that is unfortunate but you have to realize that the market here rose with an influx of people the likes of which Oregon had never experienced, The market is still unbearably high and is not even close to being reasonable. Affordability is a huge problem and the sad reality is that many Oregonians were priced out of communities they spent their whole lives in. That is tragic.
Real estate prices are definitely not "crashing." Home prices have seen a slight dip in Portland for median price homes due mostly in part to very high interest rates, causing millions of homes across the United States to become unaffordable. The rate went from 2.99% to above 7% in 2022 which means many are priced out of home buying or will no longer qualify for loans. It would be very difficult to "lose all your money" investing in Portland RE. Still a very hot market.
Worst part is, the people who have voted for a system that failed are simply moving to other cities to perform the exact same social experiment expecting different results.
Liberals are like locust. They move from town to town, destroying everything in their path.
Progressive Policies hatched by hair brain sociology departments didn't work IRL?!! Color me shocked!!
U r right on the dot, these ppl still do not realize what destroyed their city and they want to continue the same with new city where they moved.
@@Hershal13I grew up in Lake Oswego and during that time I watched my neighborhood change with Orange county developers, after ten years it was full of Californians complaining about rain and constantly using a leaf blower to clean pine needles, same thing happened I Seattle and western Montana, now they're moving to Tennessee and Georgia for the same reason they came to the west, cheap land, cheap housing. In 1992 my mom bought her house in LO for $188,000 5 years ago she sold it for $1,100,000 and it was for land only, she could barely afford the property taxes. This is just an example of many, if you live in a nice area with cheap housing, bet on your city to transform like this.
True
What he failed to mention, was the demographics of those that are leaving. Ages 30-60 are leaving. The people with most of the money. Portland is a dying city.
The people leaving are the productive and law abiding ones who work....and pay their bills...
Yes, Portland AND Oregon are dying, along with neighboring Vancouver. It’s a dumpster fire. Everyone needs to leave and people outside need to stop coming here. There are far better states to live in. Everywhere else is better than here. Everyone stay away!
Or fleeing to the suburbs.
I think the racial demographics is the most relevant.
@@tc98826 of course it is. It's always about race. 😮💨
Voting has consequences.
So does cheating, you really believe that your vote counts😂
@@n.wealand-pasttime yeah, it's how we got Trump in office the first time 🤷
Voting democrat has consequences .... don't be scared to say the word democrat !
@@barryoconnor721 popularity vote literally means nothing in presidential elections lol
@@barryoconnor721haven't you tired of being a broken record for the last decade?
I visited many many years ago. My aunt lived there. It was beautiful. I wouldn’t step foot in that state ever again
Please don't. No native Oregonian besides your aunt maybe wants you to so thank you.
oregons great portland just sucks
I'll never understand far left thinking. Imagine being in the one of the most livable cities in America, and deciding, "You know what this place needs? A police force shamed into nonexistence so the streets can become open drug markets attracting every junkie on the west coast. Also to honor a guy killed 1,000 miles away in Minneapolis, let's burn down our own city and treat all attempted acts of law enforcement as oppression. Finally, let's wonder with confusion while the sane people with jobs that were funding the livability of the city, decided to move to other cities. Yep. That's what this Most Livability City needs!"
You're attributing rationality to irrational actors.
That’s how democrats work man, they’re nearly impossible to understand if you have a logical mindset. If you’re an emotional freak you may be able to empathize with them
This isn’t far-left thinking. But I’m sure you’re an expert on ideology. Portland is a hub of neoliberalism. Which is wildly different than socialism/communism.
@@atrainradio929 I like how you're pretending I said the word "socialism/communism". Play semantic games with yourself. Call what's going on in Portland "far left thinking", or "mentally retarded politics", or whatever term you'd like. My point is, with roughly 95% reliability, when you walk the streets of a large American city in 2023 and it's overrun with vagrancy, homelessness, open drug markets, indifferent policing of theft, etc., you are walking through a city where most of the prominent politicians are Democrats, and identify as liberals. I don't care what pretentious academic social science ego trip your douchebag comment wants credit for. Tell your mom to give you a sticker or something. In real world terms, the things going on in Portland are what most Americans refer to as "far left". And the fruits of far left politics are routinely the destruction of city livability.
Blows my mind that people would destroy their own cities out of protest, it makes no sense at all
I don't believe this is a shock to anyone but the people that live in Portland. The lifestyle is what people voted for in Portland. It really amazes me how oblivious people are.
The new Detroit.
Dumb democrats
@@geigertec5921 the white Detroit.
The Portland political class turned its back on it’s citizens. ANTIFA is the fascists of the left.
you'd have a point if this decline wasn't a recent development. Portland and Seattle have been liberal for ages.
Portland was a great place back in 2015. I remember visiting it and falling in love with it and moved there with a friend. Shame what they did to the place.
its not they its we.
@@DieselRamcharger Keep telling yourself that.
Keep voting Democrat
@@DieselRamcharger your comment is so discouraged..... We??? Because we don't have the cajones to Civil arrest all the criminal politicians that run this city???or we the military , national guard etc... For not arresting the criminals are collapsing the country in DC??
And you stayed???
The buildings are empty, yet the rent is still sky high in a city that sees the sun 100 days a year.
You see what liberal policies do to these shrinking cities.
The homeless population is booming there so I guess that balances it all out?
So true!!
🤔 when was the last time Portland was run by repubs ?
The housing crisis and rent hikes are a "National" issue and not just in blue states. So is the Meth, Fentanyl and opioid addictions. Portland has its problems for sure but its happening in red states too!... Greed & Corruption does not discriminate, in infects anyone who allows it to happen to them and the horrible choices they make!...
Extreme leftist policies have led to this frigging welcome to reality.
AMANDA IS LIVING IN DENIAL BIG TIME.
Isn’t it frightening how a person can be so completely removed from any semblance of reality…….??!!!
@@ddellwo what’s frightening is they vote.
It is so tragic to see the people of Portland get exactly what they voted for and then seemingly not know why their city has turned into mess.
One person's tragedy is another's comedy.
True tragedy is they move into new states and vote for the same bullshyt, ruin the new place and move to another place, rinse and repeat.
@@JoseFlores-xh5cj Yes. Good point.
The problem is there is no other party to vote for besides the one controlled by a New York City Slum Lord and a reality TV Star.
I didn't vote for it but you're right about the other 80^ or so who did.
Gee, I wonder why people are leaving Portland in droves…
Because years of gentrification and people moving from out of state raising prices on everything especially housing. Portland is for the wealthy now and people that can't afford it are moving.
Decline is just getting started. Portland is one of the nastiest cesspools in the country thanks to Tina Kotek and Ted Wheeler.
They're not the biggest problem. They're just generic parasitic politicians. It's the voters who are the problem, and very sadly all of Oregon outside Portland-Eugene has to suffer.
it will happen to the US overall.... declining empire... slow decline
@@DS-vx3wf All will suffer, nothing can stop that.
Portland is the way it is because the people voted for it to be that way, which is a far greater shame that a population said "we have one of the best places to live on earth, let's ruin it for no reason." Any politician they elect to further that goal is just a symptom of the disease.
Although Portland has lost many residents, most of those were only the taxpayers. The voters who are mostly homeless and criminals are thriving.
They won't be thriving for much longer because all the major stores are closing. Walmart just announced they will be leaving due to becoming unprofitable. With the stores gone these wonderful people will have nobody else to "redistribute" wealth from and so will go their ability to live.
@@geigertec5921 good I hope all of the stores close and that people can live in the forests growing their own food lol
Bahhhh haaaaaa…so true. You nailed it!
Homeless people and criminals don't vote LMAO. Imagine thinking the people already not positively contributing to society vote. Most people don't even vote in the first place
😂😂😂😂😂
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
hey cool it with the anti-semitic comments okay??
Portland voted for this.
Lmao!
Please keep voting Woke, and a great example to others.
There's an old saying " When your enemy is committing suicide, just get out of the way." The "progressive policies" that Portland wear so proudly are the enemy of the average person.
No one votes for their city to be destroyed, don't be an idiot. Greed & Corruption infects anyone that allows it to happen and they make horrible decision in the process.
There are major homeless issues, drug addictions, crime and housing crises across America including Red States and we all know it!...
You don't even know what woke means.
@@billyyank5807 Don't even bother. These people are lost. Orange man and Fux "news" tells them what to hate.
@@billyyank5807 WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
Keep voting for Democrats. I'm sure they'll get this all straightened out.
On the way to be Detroit.
Philly, Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Boston, NYC Seattle, and every other Democrat dominated hellhole, where cost of living is comically high like the crime and political corruption.
I can't imagine buying property or raising a family here, so I'll be adding to those numbers 🤘
Raising a family there? That would be bad parenting for sure
Only Republicans should be allowed to flee.
No property tax or sales tax
I'm on Zillow right now!
i almost bought a house there back in 2015
i'm Italian, I've been to Portland in April for business. I loved the people there, but it was astonishing, and I mean astonishing how badly run that city was. And I'm Italian! Homelessness everywhere, crime (they broke my car windows) and general insecurity. It's a shame because you can see this used to be a great city.
Wheeler and his incompetence murdered Portland.
Most cities with "progressive" city governments are losing middle and upper middle class residents.
I know. I live in one, and I'm moving too.
We made the move. There are plenty of other very nice states in the US besides the west coast. I lived in California my whole life and just left last year and despite what all of my snobby friends back in LA think, the rest of the country is not just Kansas and Alabama. It’s actually quite nice where we moved and most importantly safe. Rule of law still applies and people help one another.
You're welcome to join us in Ohio... we're gonna be one of the last states standing.
@@ompeezy
LoL.... Your point is taken. I think it is going to get much worse.
They're moving to Austin etc and bringing their ****ing leftist politics with them. It's incredible, infuriating, sad, D All the Above.
@@BManStan1991 well overland park ks and huntsville alabama are nice place
This woman provides the perfect definition of feigned empathy, falsehood, and cognitive dissonance.
She said “at the forefront of tEnSioNs” like lady, they rioted and burned the city for 6 months
no one can fully convince her that she is wrong-only reality can. and with her even reality will not be sufficient. she’s hopeless fool.
Reprobate mind
@@gildedpeahen876 “fiery but peaceful” ….. the way she talks you would think Antifa should be a tourist attraction like the Yellowstone Bison
@@MrSheckstr textbook definition of putting your head under the blanket and thinking the monsters will go away. When psychopaths get away with sh!t, they are extremely emboldened. Between ‘bail reform’ and the media astroturfing rioting, theft and assault…Portland as a city = 😬😬😬
The irony is that Amanda Ghest votes blue no matter who, and can't figure out the main reason for Portland's decline into a dystopian hellscape.
Oh, She "knows" that the far right racists have made it difficult for all the minorities to live peacefully and the mostly peaceful Antifa was just fighting for their lives. She also knows that the Orange Hitler and his buddy Putin are making a list of next holocaust victims and if it was not for her progressive vote America would witness genocide of 10 billion people of color and all genders. She confirms this with TV and news papers so many times. She is a shero for a reason.
Republicans could easily win if they had a plan for the homeless. But they don’t either.
Who wants to keep paying high taxes and not get anything in return.
Lived there for 26 years. Glad I left in 2004. Best decision I ever made.
Love this for you ❤
Breaks my heart hearing this cuz I live there in the 90s. It's still what I consider home even though I'm in Orange County now
I moved away 20 years ago this month after living my first 26 years there
Hopefully you left the whole state of Oregon too. It’s a dumpster fire. You don’t want to live in this city nor the state. It’s better everywhere else. Stay away.
Good- the rest of Oregon is tired of Portland's sh&&
Right. They're leaving because of the job market and housing prices. Right.
Yup. It funny how the news just tried to twist the narrative that it was due to violence. Also saying business down town were vacant . But if they did research it’s easy to see around the country more ppl are working from home their for not as many people working in offices down town which will effect little business also because no one to buy from them. That’s not crime causing business to leave its people working from home and high house price and tax .
You sir are completely clueless and a narcissist. Why do I say this? Because you can never admit when you were wrong and at fault. Do answer me this why is it when I go to the suburban retail shopping outlet centers and malls how come they are full of people shopping and spending money? I bet you can’t answer it can you? Let me clue you in, the suburbs have a functional police force, no one is being robbed and shot and people feel safe and comfortable going out and shopping, eating, movies and entertainment. If what you said was true all would be down across the board. You won’t even recognize the truth because the truth destroys your narrative and fantasies.
@maat son You are totally clueless. Portland is Antifa territory. Even MSNBC admitted this!
@@Maatson_ So why is Portland doing worse than other cities?
@barryon8706 clueless leftist: because, um, it's so modern and progressive, it has many more laptop commuters that can work from home, or something. Definitely not crime, lawlessness, rampant homelessness or high taxes, that don't exist but we also fully support and apologize for...you're just a racist fascist!!!
That woman at the start blaming the pandemic great line of thinking lady as we all know the pandemic only effected Portland.
The problem is that she genuinely doesn't know any better. She's not well informed because the "news" she sees never connects the dots. She probably has no clue how well other parts of the country are doing. The media is, at least, partially responsible for what has happened in Portland, and elsewhere.
@@operator0this is a good point. There are literally communities of people who still track Covid numbers, wear masks everywhere and fear for their lives.
Humans are grass eating herd animals.
Visiting friends in Portland last month and came across multiple real life "Portlandia" situations including one guy who said that the TV show was to blame for Portland's problems. That was a good one. I'm so glad I left that city and it's lame, ball-less citizenry.
An entire population addicted to vice and ignorance, even the non-religious can see the similarities to the city of Sodom. It won't need to be wiped out by an asteroid like the original, the cause of destruction is mearly an allegory for the people themselves, they ARE the disaster and they are destroying themselves.
That show was so good.
@@krunkle5136
Portland makes me think of much of Canada.
Or should I say much of Canada makes me think of Portland.
🤣🤣🤭 Read SOCIETY AGAINST ITSELF: Political Correctness (now Woke) and Organizational Self-Destruction, Howard S. Schwartz author. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
C'mon now, some of Portland's women have huge balls. At least until they schedule their bottom surgery.
Have to agree with the gentleman they interviewed, it truly is like Portland died, a shell of its former self.
*He's not wrong.*
It's a well deserved title. It should be a warning about voting habits. But, it isn't. Instead, it's everyone pointing the finger. All the while, Portland's "leaders" are still collecting income.
THIS! No accountability. All the way down the line to the homeless.
After twenty years live in portland it's the new detroit 👋
I've been telling people that for years. It's the largest city in the state so it won't go away, but it'll never recover.
I'm sure Antifa will come to the rescue.
But it's a Democrat wunderland! How is this possible?
I wonder why?
I'm shocked I tell ya.
Used to think of Portland as my home, no longer, moved 4 years ago and don't miss it. Just part of my family still there.
Do you still vote democrat?
@@thevinmeister5015 they just said that they moved out and you’re bringing up what they voted for 😭😭😭
@@Sneakysxn becuase it's important
@@Sneakysxn it matters
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How's that extremist liberal movement going? Not well I see.
Portland citizens lack of understanding of why Portland is failing is a key reason for people fleeing unable to elect in people to deal with the issue.... (Blaming COVID when the world when through it, and some regions in deveoping nations dealt with it much worse)
I used to love Portland's and lived there for a number of years. I left when it started becoming an intolerable mix of hipster and homeless, and I can't imagine living there again unless there is a major shift. I miss old Portland. And really the whole state. It's not the same relaxed, brew pub, go on a hike and go back to your cute neighborhood vibe anymore. Extremism on every side has taken over what used to be a great independent state.
I was born and raised in Hood River. What I noticed was how heartfelt people pandered to homeless people and gave them meal cards and such. Then, it seemed like every drug addict on the west coast migrated to Portland because the people there were just trying to help. Then the social problems exploded, because it attracted that lifestyle, if you want to call it that. There were never this many homeless people in Portland. You’d see some in Portlands Old Town area mostly.
I hope you left the state too. This place is a dumpster fire. You don’t want to ever come back and no one should ever move here.
"on every side" lololol
@@lgbnz yeah, a place where nutty left and nutty right meet and kiss. Its quite gross.
@@auntiefan4202 oh yeah, it's very well known that oregon and portland especially are heavily right wing. that's definitely the problem
I moved to Portland in 1985 and left in 2005. I don't regret leaving at all.
I'm shocked! Shocked I say!
20:1
Homeless / Housed ratio
I lived there for 20 years and left in 2020… I’m SO glad to be out of a huge city with exorbitant property taxes, utility costs, godawful traffic and ever increasing crime… however I have TONS of wonderful memories from my 20’s and 30’s there and am grateful I got to experience Portland in all its glory and grotesqueries. It will forever hold a special place in my heart ✨ 💛✨
It used to be great. I miss those days. I've lived in Vancouver, WA my entire life. Going over the bridge to Portland was always an great adventure. Now, everyone avoids it like the plague. It's really sad.
Its not just in certain parts of America.. the city where i live in Canada has been getting worse year by year as well.. downtown has lost lots of businesses due to the crime and homelessness.
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Wheeler is super incompetent but people keep voting for him and his kind. 😅
The situation in San Francisco is very similar. I live across the bay from SF in Berkeley and used to enjoy riding the BART and visiting the city. I haven't been there in over 10 years and have no desire to be in that dangerous and dirty place that is infested with hordes of drugged out and psychotic homeless zombies.
That’s kinda crazy I was in SF yesterday and it was beautiful. Really no different than my experiences in the city over the last 30 years.
LOL, Berkeley is so nice without any crime or homeless. What a moron. Sacramento where I live is bad, EVERYWHERE is bad, when even a full time job can't pay for an apartment, and people wonder what's wrong.
@@deadtome44 it’s like these people saw homeless people on a corner and exaggerate it each time more and more like a fishing story. Homelessness is a problem, particularly in SF. But these online commenters exaggerate these things to ludicrous extents.
@@deadtome44 I like your understated sense of humor. I left SF in 2015 because even then it was beyond disgusting and dangerous. And in 2017 I left California.
@@markg1531 I’m not joking, but I’m glad you found a place you like (hopefully). Maybe it’s because I know where not to go, but I was in a few different spots and had no issues. One thing is for sure though- the big city isn’t for the naive.
All the Uber-Liberal cities are losing people, from residents to tourism, people just don't want to go there. We were supposed to go at the end of June for a business meeting and we are not going. Also, most in our business owners' group don't want to go either. High crime with no accountability, coupled with high homeless population and drug use are the downfall of these cities. You get what you vote for. We will take our money elsewhere.
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Lol😂😂😂 you counted the homeless? I lived there since 1958 and you can have it
Legalizing all the drugs in a city and defunding the police is not good for residents. Portland, Oregon is a example of this.
YEP! Portland is the POSTER city, if you want your once vibrant city to go down into the CESSSPOOL toilet. Portland, especially downtown core is ONE BIG OPIUM DEN.😳
letting landlord trash assault, threaten, harass, abuse , illegally evicT and stEal property from paying Tenants is an act of war? Vile rotten crooked cops and dangerous landlord trash
Drugs weren't legalized. The state of Oregon voters decriminalized the penalties for someone with a small amount because that made up the majority of pointless arrests. Get real. Drugs aren't legal. But hey,someone with a mush brain just can't understand that.
lol sf is next
It's an example of how even good policies can be bad if they're implemented stupidly. If the funding for the Portland Police had been shared with the mental health professionals who would pick up the load for the appropriate calls, had been put in place (which is what the dumb slogan "defund the police" actually means)...AND, they had put the appropriate drug and mental health infrastructure in place to deal with addicts and recovery, either of these ideas could have worked. If anything, it's a classic example of "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" thinking. They forgot the five P's. "Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance".
Portland is dying not surprised with all the crime
I know why decent people want to live elsewhere. Thank you Democrats.
I hope this brings the cost of buying a house down but I kinda doubt it.
It won't lol
That's what I was thinking. But greed will always remain.
So that you can do what? Live in a hellhole for cheap? Wonderful plan.
Who would have thought legalizing all drugs would be such a hard hit to the economy? Huh, Imagine that...
Drugs weren't legalized dum dum.
It wasn't that, it was enforcing crime laws already on the books
People take all kinds of drugs everywhere whether legal or not, the problem is they allow people to steal and damage property.
they do not understand the difference between legallization and decriminalization. I'm all for decriminalization. The difference is when drugs are decriminalized, they are still illegal, and will be confiscated, you just wont go to prison for having a personal amount on you. And you must go to mandatory rehab. Dealers will still get arrested and go to prison. Thats the Portugal system. Its NOT, hey you can openly do all the drugs you want and stand like zombies in the city center...how dumb are american law makers?
I think you could get away with legalizing most drugs BUT you need to forbid flagrant public use.
This is what happened when you wanna be woke so badly. Yeah, eat that.
One could argue that what Portland "used to be" is responsible for what Portland has become and is.😊
Exactly. I saw what was coming in 2011 and left and never looked back. Among other indicators, I could see there were too many adolescents who would never in my estimation grow up; having a father and step-mother in their 60s (at the time) whom are still to this day superannuated Portland adolescents perhaps helped me see this. My judgment and decision have been affirmed far more than i would have anticipated.
@@markmaki4460
Well stated. I've likewise observed a disturbing naivete among adults in places like Portland and Seattle for decades.
Exactly foolish people that think they're hippies when they don't understand how things work they just join a bandwagon of liberals and think they're righteous, they are the new dying breed
Getting exactly what they voted for. Should be celebrating their political victories.
People keep blaming Wheeler, their DA, and their twisted governor, but I argue that they are all just doing exactly what their insane voters want. Congratulations, Portland, for your utopia.
What did you think would happen when you vote for people based on narrative rather than reality?
1:10 - Cuts to police - WHAT?????????????????????? But I thought de-funding the police was suppose to make everything better.
I had to visit an account in downtown Portland in 2017 and the streets scenes reminded me of when I worked in India. Everywhere you went there were beggars in rags.
I fly all over. Only blue cities do we get warnings to be careful going out of hotel to eat due to crime.
The gentleman is right, it’s been slowly dying for the past decade.
The result of decades of Liberal/Progressive control.
Only in blue cities? Name a few big red cities
No Longer City of 🥀 Rose, High Taxes, High Crimes, High Homeless & Local Government is not doing much of anything to much it better place to live or traveling destinations. Portland police force and emergency service is too busy responding to drug overdose. Time to vote for republican.
The Democrats utopia 😂😂🎉🎉 "we did it joe"
One of the best days of my life was when the office said we could stay Washington and didn’t have to move to Portland, Oregon.
Population isn't the only thing shrinking in Portland. Muscle mass and testosterone levels are in even worse shape.
Snap into a man bun a democrat hairstyle treat
Radical political policies will always lead to failure.
I love that the same people who are "troubled" about people leaving still won't admit why people are leaving.
Right? I see it as, unfortunately they've built their whole world views around principles which don't hold true in the real world, and admitting they were wrong would force them to reevalutate everything they've built their lives around.
While they are the reason people leaving
Went there last year as a tourist. Garbage everywhere from the homeless. Tents. Burned out cars. Was hard to find a place to stay that didn't seem sketchy. We went to a store and security were stopping a shoplifter.
The zoo was nice.
Sounds about right
The whole place is a zoo.
Geee I wonder why 😂
I'm Ted Mayor McCheese Wheeler. I approve this message. And personally welcome you to Wokeghanistan. Democrats we did it
Years back we stayed at a downtown hotel to attend a wedding. Really loved the downtown area...fast forward 12 years and we visited the same area. Now greeted with boarded up storefronts, empty businesses, open drug use (and sales), people living in the parks, mentally disturbed people hassling pedestrians, open air toilets, trash strewn about, and our car was vandalized and broken into.(to which the police refused to reply)
We witnessed open shoplifting in a store. "Gee I wonder why WE have to pay for items when "they" dont?"
We also heard gunfire during the night.
We'll NEVER enter Portland again.
It's quite obvious why people are leaving in droves, it's an "open/lawless" city with no law enforcement.
To be fair about the shoplifting, unless someone like Loss Prevention or Asset Protection is there, Managers and Employees, typically because of retail policies everywhere now, we literally are not allowed to get involved or we'll get fired. Because for some reason, thieves feel entitled enough to sue even tho they're in the wrong.
We felt that way about Seattle. You couldn't pay me to visit there now.
The community organizers fleeing their own handywork. Portland is not skrinking, it is METASTIZING.
Good comment Rob. 🙏🏽