Their residents voted for all this: the crime, riots and burning buildings; the tax increases, the feckless milquetoast mayor and city clown-cils. All of it.
2008 banks decided they cant lose, and effectively ended all free markets in the west, turning to state communism as the future solution. Here are the trappings of communism.
@@JustMeNoOther yep, thank the Portland voters who pass every single measure that hits the ballot. Then they are dumbfounded when everyone moves across the bridge to Vancouver, WA and downtown PDX is a ghost city.
When I was buying a new house back in 18, I wanted Portland metro ( Washington/ Clackamas county). I told my realtor that anything in Multnomah County is a no-go. Dont bother showing me .
As a 75 yr old I can say Portland used to be a beautiful, vibrant place. Like all the Pacific West Coast cities it has been deliberately politically wrecked. It's enough to make you cry. What a waste.
Yeah but keep in mind nobody forced anyone to do any of this. They purposely chose and wanted all of this. You ask them today and they'll STILL blame everyone else but themselves who caused all of it. They insist they know better and insist there is no god... Payback is a b!tch!!! You reap what you sow what you grow.
Funny all you west coasters were constantly s**tting on where I live with your superiority now you’re worse. Karma is a bch isn’t it? But the weather is great 😂😂😂😂
There are still plenty good people around. They just leave cities because democrats have designed a way of completely ignoring reality while still wanting to participate.
I bet it was great area. I drove to Mt St Helens from Rochester, NY in July. I saw the best parts of the area. LoL. Swam in Mt runoff for a bath then drove home to NYS, which Im leaving soon.
In 2008 banks decided no more losses for themselves, and ended free market capitalism in the west. they are communists, thats why productivity is gone.
Looks can be deceiving. People look nice and healthy prosperous attractive and happy on the outside but they could be doing drugs, doing nasty stuff behind closed doors with numerous people... 👀
It really was. I left in 2009. I came back in 2018 excited to see its growth and was shocked at how it wasn't even recognizable. Really sad. One of the best west coast cities back in the day. Hidden gem.
@NoctilucentArts yeah Omaha, Nebraska, it's at 93% commercial occupancy. In fact Douglas County, county part of Omaha had the highest GDP tying with Austin Texas as the highest GDP during the covid pandemic. Also Omaha funded the police and now has the model Omaha 365 crime program that other cities are trying to model because of how successful. Oh and the Omaha mayor Jean Stothert is a Republican who voted for Trump.
5 years ago downtown Portland was busy, prosperous and full of activity. So sad what has happened. Progressive politics = total ruin. I had to leave and its not even worth visiting any more.
100 days or riots downtown in 2020, many of them very violent, and an open invitation from local governments to homeless from all over the country during the COVID era, and a completely broken local criminal justice system created perfect conditions for the ruination of downtown.
I was born and raised in Portland, 67 now. Walked the police beat in downtown for decades . There was rarely a vacant business or doorway in my time. Liberal B.S., tolerance of criminal behavior and lack of new ideas have destroyed the city. I moved to small town Arizona 8 years ago. Nice, small conservative city. I have great memories of downtown Portland, that's all that's left. Downtown used to be crazy busy. So sad.
@@IvorThomas What was weird about the closed businesses that had been there? Is Macys, Nike (well there's probs there), an independent brewery and restaurant, restaurants, Chicken Wings restaurant, banks, Payless Shoe store, or the open ones still hanging on like: T Mobile, Nordstrom Rack, maybe Sushi weird to you?
*All of the Walmarts in Portland are gone, they all had to shut down due to rampant shoplifting which is still legal in Portland. Now those Walmarts are rotting husks of dead real estate and empty mega parking lots with no future. You can thank anti-capitalist liberals voters for that mess as well.* 😮😂😢
Greetings from Germany…. All over the Same…worse in the US but Europe is always later, but you can see it already over here.. especially Germany, France and Italy…. Everything known is gone….we have to fasten our belt very tight.. difficult times ahead
Hi from Bavaria Germany, I can definitely confirm that. The increase in business closures is reaching alarming proportions, even in small towns. There are many construction projects that have been started, often all that remains is a full construction pit and then no progress can be seen. In Bavaria there are still no problems with homeless people camping in tents and drugs are not a big problem in the woke cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt However, that is an issue. In some places, the lost youth are already trying to recreate street takeovers; insurance contracts for cars are currently rising immeasurably. Since Corona, a wave of bankruptcies has been rolling in, which is gaining momentum, short-time work and unemployment are increasing. Our incompetent government has just dismantled it, the next one will only accelerate the decline. There are definitely difficult times ahead...  Feedback
@@marcjohnson9270 It's called "leading economic indicators" Things like inverted yield curves, new building permits, manufacturing orders, etc. Currently the leading indicators are pointing to a weak economy in the near term.
@@LamelKendrick Really says it all because Nike is Oregon's huge business success story. Their shoes fall apart. Asics, New Balance and others are so much better. Keen sandals are also from OR. Super comfortable but they fall apart due to crappy glue.
You can feel the despair in the air in Portland now, everything echoes in the silence. It has always been and has had its problem areas, but now it feels post apocalyptic and very somber. You can feel it through the screen, that feeling is much worse in person.
@@Bf26fge Voting isn't going to fix this problem because it's multi-systemic on purpose. They have their ideas of how they want things to be everywhere and this is only the beginning.
I live in a Portland suburb and you're right about the ghost town downtown has become. The big marker was 2020. In that year due to protests the Mayor defunded the police, then there were riots and looting of businesses which destroyed (bankrupted) lots of small businesses. Due to the lockdowns there was a huge surge in homeless population, not just downtown, but there too. More recently city leaders are picking up the pieces, they have made some effort to remove homeless people, but they are still cleaning up. Firing police and letting all those small businesses get looted and vandalized really hurt the city. I miss Rock Bottom Brewery too.
The police were never actually defunded. It was smoke & mirrors to appeal to the leftists. For years there was a budget for bodycams, which year after year was not spent. So - since that money wasn't going to spent still, they removed it from that year's budget and then claimed they "defunded" the police. PPB has never gotten anything less than what they request. Police were never fired. Nothing you're saying, aside from the homeless surge, is true.
I’m 10 miles SW of downtown and only go into the city to play pinball, hit up Music Millennium and see concerts. That’s it. Lol. Portland is dead otherwise. It’ll take a very long time for the rebirth to take place, if it happens at all.
@@sadboi7537 What music venues did you go to before downtown? They're all still operating - Dante's, Star Theater, Crystal Ballroom, Lola's Room, etc. The Jack London Review is one of the best jazz rooms in the PNW. Most venues aren't downtown anyway, they're on the east side - Mississippi Studios, Miss Pizza, Alberta Street Pub, Wonder Ballroom, Moda Center, Laurelthirst... Sounds like you never actually went to shows at all and are weirdly complaining about something that hasn't changed.
You get what you vote for. Tribalism is so strong in Portland it is doomed forever. The voters will never change. That would require a look in the mirror and they’re too arrogant for that. So glad we left 20 years ago.
If the same Portland Oregon residents who voted for the same shitty politicians and decided to move to republican states like Mississippi, let’s hope for their sakes they don’t piss off the southern locals with their HORRIBLY OPINIONATED, ARROGANT, DESPICABLE , radical left wing liberal views and forcing them to adapt to their california like political policies.
I went to Portland with my dad on a business trip when I was young and I remember it being such a beautiful and vibrant city. This was in 1999 or so…it’s amazing what leftist policies and soros bought DAs can do to nice cities.
I remember taking the ferry from Bremerton to Seattle as a child ( I am 62) and having a ball with other 9-10 year old friends . It was completely safe .
Seattle has turned into a total CHIT HOLE. I won't even drive my convertible in downtown Seattle anymore because it's too easy to get robbed in a ragtop. Now If I have to drive thru downtown I ALWAYS keep my .38 tucked under my leg with the safety off. Gone are the days of taking the ferry to Seattle & walking to one of the stadiums to catch a Mariners or Seahawks game (unless you've got a personal bodyguard that's 6'8" & 350 lbs). I worked in downtown in the 80's & 90's. After work and on weekends there was NO PROBLEM hiking around on foot to go bar hopping from Pike Place to the Space Needle, Pioneer Square, the comedy clubs on 3rd, the Waterfront & even as far as Lake Union. Even after the bars closed at 2-3 AM wearing all my expensive jewelry and NEVER ONCE ever felt unsafe or had a problem. Libtards have DESTROYED this once beautiful State. 😢 Most of the State is red. Unfortunately King County (Seattle) keeps voting blue. If we got rid of the mail in ballots I have a feeling Libtards wouldn't keep getting voted in. The corruption is strong here. 😡
I can confirm this. It is a piss filled area now. Walking downtown in the summer especially along 1st Ave in August is excruciating! The aroma of urine is overpowering at times and that’s where all the tourists go for underground city tours! What it must smell like down there considering the direction piss flows… And the mayor and the people who keep voting for the same party will never take responsibility for the situation and just blame others that have nothing to do with how their city is run.
As a Native Portlander of 37 yrs. This city is a bit better than a handful years of go. But it seems like its on the brink of collapse. We have been failed by or politicians and ourselves! Too many want to keep the madness going and not to make a hard change. As a city, we need to do a lot of reflection and stop repeating the same mistakes. Portland in the 90s n n 00s was a gem!
I moved here in 96 from LA. I would drive through the city almost every week just to admire the architecture and the vibrancy of the city. It would remind me of the old movies I like to watch of the 30s and 40s in downtown New York City.And then the riots started happening and nobody went to jail. Liberal policies and politicians killed another vibrant city. Just like Detroit, Portland is circling the drain, unfortunately. What a beautiful city, and Democrats killed it.
I moved to Portland in 92 from Tacoma, Wa, and fell in love with Portland. It was so bright, prosperous, clean, and vibrant compared to Tacoma. My favorite thing in the 90s was during the holidays to bundle up with friends and family, and walk around pioneer square, drink coffee, do some shopping, just enjoy the vibe. In 03, I moved about 30 miles south of portland but still pass through a few times a year. The city is dead. Trash, druggies, boarded windows, homeless, crime. Everything is dirty and run down. I won't go into the city for any reason without my .38
Seattle has gotten just as bad. I just posted the same thing - If I have to drive thru downtown Seattle I keep my .38 tucked under my leg with the safety off. I also refuse to drive my convertible in downtown now because it's too easy to get robbed in a ragtop. Saw it happen to a car in front of me next to the Space Needle. We were stuck at a red light. Too much cross traffic so the guy in front of me couldn't go anywhere. If you have to stop for a red light you're a sitting duck. What part of Tacoma are you from? I grew up in Gig Harbor. Lived in Tacoma for awhile. When I was young we used to cruise Highland Hill & Point Defiance (Owens Beach) back in the " Olden Days". LOL
The weather every winter is rain and 40 - 50⁰ or clear and cold as shit. Last night my car washing bucket of water was frozen solid on the top inch. I miss the old Portland i grew up in!! Californians moved up here and brought their policies with them.
I was stationed at Seattle Sandpoint in the mid to late 80s. Every year I looked forward to going to Portland for the Rose Festival. It was such a beautiful City. It's so sad to see what it's become.
Early 1960's, dad would sometimes take me to his downtown PDX office on weekdays. I can still see those same streets you're walking BUSTLING with people, window displays everywhere and the smells of the coffee shops and restaurants. Another world.... all GONE!!!!
Downtowns are toast! here in Boston MA so many high rises are sitting empty and the tax revenue is gone!! They are gonna raise taxes on house holds.....what do you think I'maa do.....move!!
I visited a friend I went to High School in Pennsylvania back in 2015 in Portland. There was stores and restaurants every corner then. The only negative place back then was the park in front of Portland State University. There were druggies hanging out and or living most of the time in the park. Blue cities across the country are all failed now. They blew it on a grand scale.
@@JanuaryRapture It sure is a liberal hell hole. I am so sick of seeing men in dresses. Unfortunately I'm trapped here. I have no car, no money and to get on a Greyhound, I would have to give away almost all my clothes because you can't take much when you travel Greyhound.
A lot of retail and restaurants moved to the Portland suburbs, which are thriving. Portland's loss is Beaverton, Hillsboro, Clackamas and Vancouver's gain.
Too bad you're still around. It was likely you that made everyone leave. Go have a coke and a smile. Or what ever it is that you despise. Somewhere else.
Metal Leo, in answer to your question: Vacant retail space is called "2nd generation" when it has already been built out by a previous tenant. Second- generation spaces can be advantageous for new tenants and owners because they come with existing infrastructure items. For example, a restaurant space that was previously occupied may have a hood, ventilation system, grease trap, and plumbing with lots of drains. This can save new tenants time and money on construction and build-out costs. Fyi - The majority of those vacant buildings you passed by on your video tour of downtown Portland, Oregon, are now completely bank owned properties, as the previous owners of them defaulted on their mortgages. This is also true for San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other fiscally declining cities.
@@roarbertbearatheon8565 Keep in mind those banks experienced major red ink in accepting those properties by bankruptcy. The loans they made were from a time when property values were MUCH higher. No bank likes red ink. The collapse of commercial real-estate is drawing several banks to the edge of collapse. Summary: Bank owned does not mean big profits for banks.
@@addertooth1 Don't worry. In the future all banks are Wells Fargo. By the way, Wells Fargo just put Wendy Williams under conservatorship. Yes, you're bank can declare you mentally incompetent now and assign someone else to 'watch' your money.
Lived in portland since 92, everyone knows how awesome the city used to be. What's most shocking about this, is that no one is talking about it? It's not on the local news at all? This is unbelievable, the city is essentially gone! No business and no people. Crazy!! Used to be bustling!
Well, at least most of the filth, bums, and drugs are gone. It will take the business community a long time to trust the city of Portland again. Once bitten, twice shy.
We drive around Portland these days, avoid it like the plague. We used to eat and shop and otherwise recreate in portland at least 2 days a month, often more. For the last 7 years, not a dime of my money or a second of my time spent there. All my friends and family have moved to the suburbs or farther away....or are in the process. Liberal stranglehold, the slow death is almost complete.
During Covid all over Southern California you couldn’t find a restroom to use. Everyone would put signs “out of order” cuz the kids didn’t want to clean them or get sick Those were scary times. It showed the true colors of people.
Crime. Organized crime has taken control of most of our governments. They run drugs and traffic women and children and other contraband, like weapons and defense technology. Then they launder those monies through insider stock market trading, funding wars, other government-funded research projects, NGOs, "charity" foundations etc. They pay officials lower down (like the mayor and city council of Portland) to shut up and take orders. And of course, they raise taxes. Ultimately, they DON'T CARE if cities and states "run" or not. They don't care about people at all. The smarter among them know that the end result will be the return of feudal society (with a "1984" surveillance flair.) This will consist of: one, a vast, barely surviving worker class, inured to poverty, numbed, dumbed down and programmed by the state-owned media machine to conform and obey. Two, a small, uberwealthy elite class who control everything, and a slightly larger, slightly privileged servant class (in marxism they're called the "useful idiots") who do their dirty work for them. This situation is further complicated by the presence of various hostile foreign entities--governments, religious fanatics, billionaire oligarchs, criminal syndicates etc., who also have a strong interest in deconstructing the west for their own gain, and who are constantly striving to weaken, exploit, destabilize and plunder us and our resources. The reason why criminals have infiltrated our universities and destroyed creative, critical thinking, and flooded our countries with vast numbers of immigrants from cultures they KNOW to be less humane, less civilized, far more violent and inimical to our western values, is to disrupt our society and destroy our educated, free thinking middle class--those who would most strongly oppose them, maybe even stop them. IMO it's hopeless at this point. I think that individuals like Trump may be able to produce some brief upturns and small victories, but I don't see them winning the war, because they are not ruthless enough. And it IS a war. Make no mistake about that.
LOL, but seriously, for the average healthy person, boosters have shown no benefit. You only need them if you're immuno-compromised, which is just a tiny fraction of the population.
@@marcjohnson9270 In 2008 banks decided no more losses for themselves, and ended free market capitalism in the west. your nation went communist. nobody can compete with a bank that can print unlimited money ?
the situation seems to have escalated in many cities in the USA but here in Europe we are a little behind but I am starting to see this more and more in Sweden too, in some of the big shopping malls many shops have closed and this is noticed in the media sometimes where the cause is blamed on high rents and inflation but it will get worse I feel.
Businesses can’t survive with the crime. Broadway dispensary opened, one week later was broken into and trashed. Two weeks later the building is for sale. They couldn’t even last a month.
There are hardly any people there either. Most of the traffic is through traffic. You have to have a certain level of population if you're going to be able to conduct a storefront business in a neighborhood. Rents and mortgage payments are probably way too high. These large firms are buying up properties and wanting impossible amounts for rents and mortgages. They need to be reeled in. Both sides of the phony political spectrum work hand in hand with these large acquisition firms. You're not going to vote your way out of this problem. For those who think you can, STOP BEING STUPID!
THIS is reality - BOARDS, BOARDS, BOARDS! Gone Now!! Retail shopping has nearly been eliminated in that area. Poor Portland. Oregon's largest city, with over 600,000 (supposedly) has lost many of its stores and looks like a ghost town!
Biggest issue is lack of enforcement. The license plate lacking vehicles with people driving recklessly. All these spaces empty. It’s lost tax revenue and there’s no increases per year to keep up with inflation. Portland needs to clean up.
Used to visit Portland regularly, but last visit was shocking - none of the restaurants or stores we used to frequent were left, literally every sidewalk had homeless living in tents on it, and there were non-stop incidents everywhere we went. Sad.
RIP Portland. Thanks for the video. What happened to a city I once loved? We left 11 years ago. Lived there for 28 years. I no longer recognize Portland. I lived downtown and went to school at Portland State University during the great 1990's. Lived on the park blocks, and I loved it. Cafes, bars, restaurants all hopping and full of people. Portland in 2024 is officially dead. It used to be so nice. Gone is once awesome Rock Bottom Brewery. The Cheerful Tortoise. Spent many a fun evening in Downtown back then. Everything is boarded up and closed.
Thanks for exposing the truth Leo. Last time I was in Portland was for a wedding. We had so much fun and the city was jumping with bars and restaurants now it looks dead. You’re right that it’s better than San Francisco though. Tragic
It wouldn't surprise me to see realtor listings for prime tent space there. I can imagine the listings for current tent properties would go something like this: 3 tarps, with an extra large contractor trash bag extension added last year. Bathroom in the entryway of the old movie house next door. Offers pending!
Actually, in comparison to 5/10 years ago, the traffic seen in the video wouldn't even match the amount of parked vehicles along the curbs. And dozens of pedestrians would have filled every sidewalk.
I remember how our downtown looked like this in the 80s. The restaurants were only open for breakfast snd lunch and closed on the weekend because nobody hung around after work. It took a long time to revitalize downtown and together people to want to live there.
Some say work from home really gutted downtown areas. I think is more people tolerated the conditions of downtown areas because they HAD to go there. Cities grossly overestimated their popularity and found out when the people started working from home and was not forced to go in. Who the heck want to go shopping in the city? Adecco was a contractor for hire company for IT people. They got bought out.
I went back to my haunt, the I-5 corridor, that I left in 2013. A bartender at a restaurant I frequented as a teen, kicked me out thinking I was an addict when I'm clean as a whistle. The place is now filthy and terrifying-NOT where I lived the first 36 years of my life. I couldn't WAIT to get back home to the other side of Washington! 😢
I feel your pain. I live in nearby Vancouver and had no idea how bad downtown was until I watched this. But I will always remember the beautiful bustling downtown of my childhood. Watching the rose parade with all of it's participants, winding through a vibrant, productive, and prosperous city. A welcoming city...
You cant go to Las Vegas bc LV doesnt have a "downtown". No buildings there. Just the Courthouse, police dept and up the street are all the casinos. LV has one of the worst unemployment rates in the country.
this actually is more than 100 percent better than it was a year ago when I moved from my once beautiful PDX, lol. The areas you visited are always kind of marginal but admittedly there are a ton of vacancies that were rented prior to 2016. Things have been real bad in PDX ever since we legalized drugs, sad to say. we got inundated with lowlifes from all across the USA, many of whom quickly got hooked on Meth and became to live in meth camps. PDX is just another sh*tty American city now. Used to be an urban paradise.
And they’ll double down when you show them this type of evidence, they’ll say that it’s better than having a racist piece of shit Republican as mayor or governor.
So sad what they did to downtown Portland. Lived there for almost 15 years before leaving in 2016. Was downtown last summer to take the kids to Powell's but you could feel it's just not the same as it was before. Like all the life was sucked out of downtown. Brother still lives there but never goes downtown. Nothing down really down there plus he said it's a 50/50 shot you could run into a crazy homeless person.
Such a shame what happened to our cities. Tons of people would love to live in downtown areas but investors bought up all the property and they think that rent costs 3k to 4k. So now everything sits empty and crime runs wild because there are no people around. Stores close because no people are around.
I lived in Portland for 14 years and moved to Florida in 1990. I could not imagine ever living there again. Portland is just a shell of what it was when I lived there. Kinda sad.
And the best part about Portland, the county keep raising taxes on businesses and residents. I've never seen a city dig its own grave so effectively.
Their residents voted for all this: the crime, riots and burning buildings; the tax increases, the feckless milquetoast mayor and city clown-cils. All of it.
2008 banks decided they cant lose, and effectively ended all free markets in the west,
turning to state communism as the future solution. Here are the trappings of communism.
Detroit in the 80's
@@JustMeNoOther yep, thank the Portland voters who pass every single measure that hits the ballot. Then they are dumbfounded when everyone moves across the bridge to Vancouver, WA and downtown PDX is a ghost city.
When I was buying a new house back in 18, I wanted Portland metro ( Washington/ Clackamas county). I told my realtor that anything in Multnomah County is a no-go. Dont bother showing me .
As a 75 yr old I can say Portland used to be a beautiful, vibrant place. Like all the Pacific West Coast cities it has been deliberately politically wrecked. It's enough to make you cry. What a waste.
Yeah but keep in mind nobody forced anyone to do any of this. They purposely chose and wanted all of this. You ask them today and they'll STILL blame everyone else but themselves who caused all of it. They insist they know better and insist there is no god...
Payback is a b!tch!!! You reap what you sow what you grow.
Funny all you west coasters were constantly s**tting on where I live with your superiority now you’re worse. Karma is a bch isn’t it?
But the weather is great 😂😂😂😂
There are still plenty good people around. They just leave cities because democrats have designed a way of completely ignoring reality while still wanting to participate.
When I was younger I always wanted to live there. Now at 62 I wouldn't even want to visit.
I bet it was great area. I drove to Mt St Helens from Rochester, NY in July. I saw the best parts of the area. LoL. Swam in Mt runoff for a bath then drove home to NYS, which Im leaving soon.
And the mayor thinks this is fine. No business wants to open in a run down shit hole.
@@MatthewJamesKent Not even the nice new shiny airport terminal will save them.
What is wrong with that guy, I wonder.
In 2008 banks decided no more losses for themselves, and ended free market capitalism in the west. they are communists, thats why productivity is gone.
@@denverdubois5835the new guy seems horrible too
@@Electrodexifyhave you been to PDX? Its trash
Portland is for sure CLOSED NOW!
GONE NOW!
@araonna yup
Watch leftist youtubers say that Portland is vibrant and thar there are no issues
@Electrodexify yep
The average vacancy rate in every downtown area in the US is 30%. There's nothing unique about Portland.
I used to work there and it was a darling, cheerful, rose-filled little city. Now it looks like a zombie video game.
Every major after Vera Katz helped destroy portland
what do you expect US is being led by Zombie Joe!
Out of 350m americans the best America can do is to choose between a Zombie and a Groper!!!!!!
Looks can be deceiving. People look nice and healthy prosperous attractive and happy on the outside but they could be doing drugs, doing nasty stuff behind closed doors with numerous people... 👀
Democrats did this to us.
It really was. I left in 2009. I came back in 2018 excited to see its growth and was shocked at how it wasn't even recognizable. Really sad. One of the best west coast cities back in the day. Hidden gem.
The mainstream media doesn't show this for sure.
Unless a major crime happens in this area.
They caused it
@@ochogeek They are sure showing the shiny new airport terminal of Portland but no word on how "vibrant" Portland is
@@Electrodexify The average vacancy rate in every downtown area in the US is 30%. Can you find a city which has less than 20% post-pandemic?
@NoctilucentArts yeah Omaha, Nebraska, it's at 93% commercial occupancy. In fact Douglas County, county part of Omaha had the highest GDP tying with Austin Texas as the highest GDP during the covid pandemic.
Also Omaha funded the police and now has the model Omaha 365 crime program that other cities are trying to model because of how successful. Oh and the Omaha mayor Jean Stothert is a Republican who voted for Trump.
5 years ago downtown Portland was busy, prosperous and full of activity. So sad what has happened. Progressive politics = total ruin. I had to leave and its not even worth visiting any more.
@@dtrain5171 yup
100 days or riots downtown in 2020, many of them very violent, and an open invitation from local governments to homeless from all over the country during the COVID era, and a completely broken local criminal justice system created perfect conditions for the ruination of downtown.
@yelapa999 yup
2019-2022 var med all sannolikhet planerat och enbart subversivt.
Jag hoppas att de flesta vet vad subversivt betyder!!!!.
@@yelapa999that's misinformation. The news outlets say the protests were mostly peaceful and the attack of the government buildings was justified.
I was born and raised in Portland, 67 now. Walked the police beat in downtown for decades . There was rarely a vacant business or doorway in my time. Liberal B.S., tolerance of criminal behavior and lack of new ideas have destroyed the city. I moved to small town Arizona 8 years ago. Nice, small conservative city. I have great memories of downtown Portland, that's all that's left. Downtown used to be crazy busy. So sad.
Don't worry Trumps gonna make it great again
A big-"Salute-for-your-Service"--Sir--people like you are our "Real-Americans"--& sorely missed now-days-!!
@@kenoreyna4593 It's a hell of a lot likelier to happen under Trump than it would have been under Harris, that's for sure.
@@ConfusedCobra-qt1nv Wow, sounds like we were in a lot of the same places!
Like a realtor in a small town in AZ told me what makes his town really nice…”It’s what we don’t have here that makes it nice”
They kept Portland weird. And the sane business owners are GONE.
Weird isn’t working
You can still be weird and functional. Socialism isn't weird, it's whack.
@ if weird is all you got, then it’s a problem
@@IvorThomas What was weird about the closed businesses that had been there?
Is Macys, Nike (well there's probs there), an independent brewery and restaurant, restaurants, Chicken Wings restaurant, banks, Payless Shoe store, or the open ones still hanging on like:
T Mobile, Nordstrom Rack, maybe Sushi weird to you?
*All of the Walmarts in Portland are gone, they all had to shut down due to rampant shoplifting which is still legal in Portland. Now those Walmarts are rotting husks of dead real estate and empty mega parking lots with no future. You can thank anti-capitalist liberals voters for that mess as well.* 😮😂😢
payless....now pay nothing
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joyless
Payless went under before pandemic
@@holyfireholdingspace888 There's a long game afoot.
One thing that amazes me about many of these areas is that the buildings are not old and decrepit. Thay are often in very good shape.
I guess it doesn't take long to destroy a city with woke policies.
For Now
@@Ignas0000 Only 4 years!
search "portland 2020 riots", you will see why
its a lack of foot traffic. The bums dont have money to spend and rents are too high.
Greetings from Germany…. All over the Same…worse in the US but Europe is always later, but you can see it already over here.. especially Germany, France and Italy…. Everything known is gone….we have to fasten our belt very tight.. difficult times ahead
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing
Hi from Bavaria Germany, I can definitely confirm that. The increase in business closures is reaching alarming proportions, even in small towns. There are many construction projects that have been started, often all that remains is a full construction pit and then no progress can be seen. In Bavaria there are still no problems with homeless people camping in tents and drugs are not a big problem in the woke cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt However, that is an issue. In some places, the lost youth are already trying to recreate street takeovers; insurance contracts for cars are currently rising immeasurably. Since Corona, a wave of bankruptcies has been rolling in, which is gaining momentum, short-time work and unemployment are increasing. Our incompetent government has just dismantled it, the next one will only accelerate the decline. There are definitely difficult times ahead...

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All NATO member countries infected with Ecumenism and LGBTQA+++++++++
Where can I get one of those crystal balls?
@@marcjohnson9270 It's called "leading economic indicators" Things like inverted yield curves, new building permits, manufacturing orders, etc. Currently the leading indicators are pointing to a weak economy in the near term.
The liquor store and the Recovery Center is open. A vicious cycle. Happy Holidays to you Metal Leo !!!!🌲
You got that right! Happy holidays!
That sounds like Keyne's pump priming. We pay someone to dig a hole and someone else to fill it in lol
OLCC needs its money!
Great job Leo. You're making a big difference exposing this reality.Thanks for the content.Sir George from north Idaho.
Thanks, Sir George!
surprised no comments about the Nike store. obviously its not coming soon. its smoke in mirrors
@@LamelKendrick Really says it all because Nike is Oregon's huge business success story. Their shoes fall apart. Asics, New Balance and others are so much better. Keen sandals are also from OR. Super comfortable but they fall apart due to crappy glue.
@@NormanStansfield1 i'm sure they're thriving in eugene
@NormanStansfield1 Love Asics,Bought them to work as Nurse ..awesome.
You can feel the despair in the air in Portland now, everything echoes in the silence.
It has always been and has had its problem areas, but now it feels post apocalyptic and very somber.
You can feel it through the screen, that feeling is much worse in person.
So why do you all continue to vote for leftists?
@@Bf26fge Voting isn't going to fix this problem because it's multi-systemic on purpose. They have their ideas of how they want things to be everywhere and this is only the beginning.
@Bf26fge Conditioning from academia, reinforced by media to despise "the status quo", in other words, the American middle class and American history.
I live in a Portland suburb and you're right about the ghost town downtown has become. The big marker was 2020. In that year due to protests the Mayor defunded the police, then there were riots and looting of businesses which destroyed (bankrupted) lots of small businesses. Due to the lockdowns there was a huge surge in homeless population, not just downtown, but there too. More recently city leaders are picking up the pieces, they have made some effort to remove homeless people, but they are still cleaning up. Firing police and letting all those small businesses get looted and vandalized really hurt the city. I miss Rock Bottom Brewery too.
The police were never actually defunded. It was smoke & mirrors to appeal to the leftists. For years there was a budget for bodycams, which year after year was not spent. So - since that money wasn't going to spent still, they removed it from that year's budget and then claimed they "defunded" the police. PPB has never gotten anything less than what they request. Police were never fired. Nothing you're saying, aside from the homeless surge, is true.
and the leaders are buying the property cheap, we sold to a shell corp, that tracks back to Wheelers non profit.
@@coozywoozyboozy You should email Willamette Week with that info, if it's true.
I’m 10 miles SW of downtown and only go into the city to play pinball, hit up Music Millennium and see concerts. That’s it. Lol. Portland is dead otherwise. It’ll take a very long time for the rebirth to take place, if it happens at all.
@@sadboi7537 What music venues did you go to before downtown? They're all still operating - Dante's, Star Theater, Crystal Ballroom, Lola's Room, etc. The Jack London Review is one of the best jazz rooms in the PNW. Most venues aren't downtown anyway, they're on the east side - Mississippi Studios, Miss Pizza, Alberta Street Pub, Wonder Ballroom, Moda Center, Laurelthirst... Sounds like you never actually went to shows at all and are weirdly complaining about something that hasn't changed.
You get what you vote for. Tribalism is so strong in Portland it is doomed forever. The voters will never change. That would require a look in the mirror and they’re too arrogant for that. So glad we left 20 years ago.
We cannot vote our way out of what they're up to.
If the same Portland Oregon residents who voted for the same shitty politicians and decided to move to republican states like Mississippi, let’s hope for their sakes they don’t piss off the southern locals with their HORRIBLY OPINIONATED, ARROGANT, DESPICABLE , radical left wing liberal views and forcing them to adapt to their california like political policies.
@websurfer5772 No. Evacuate. I did. You can't fix them and they'll never fix themselves.
You have a large number of PSU and other Oregon universities who brainwash students to vote democrat. It will not change!
Tribalism is right. The homeless industrial complex is downtowns largest employer. We've turned the CBD into one giant psyche ward. :/
I went to Portland with my dad on a business trip when I was young and I remember it being such a beautiful and vibrant city. This was in 1999 or so…it’s amazing what leftist policies and soros bought DAs can do to nice cities.
Interesting you say 1999. I always tell people it was Y2K (2000) when humanity/west coast cities abruptly changed- I think it was meth.
Should do a report from downtown Seattle. Hear its just as bad and deserted as Portland....but more homeless everywhere.
I remember taking the ferry from Bremerton to Seattle as a child ( I am 62) and having a ball with other 9-10 year old friends . It was completely safe .
Seattle has turned into a total CHIT HOLE.
I won't even drive my convertible in downtown Seattle anymore because it's too easy to get robbed in a ragtop. Now If I have to drive thru downtown I ALWAYS keep my .38 tucked under my leg with the safety off.
Gone are the days of taking the ferry to Seattle & walking to one of the stadiums to catch a Mariners or Seahawks game (unless you've got a personal bodyguard that's 6'8" & 350 lbs).
I worked in downtown in the 80's & 90's. After work and on weekends there was NO PROBLEM hiking around on foot to go bar hopping from Pike Place to the Space Needle, Pioneer Square, the comedy clubs on 3rd, the Waterfront & even as far as Lake Union.
Even after the bars closed at 2-3 AM wearing all my expensive jewelry and NEVER ONCE ever felt unsafe or had a problem.
Libtards have DESTROYED this once beautiful State. 😢
Most of the State is red.
Unfortunately King County (Seattle) keeps voting blue.
If we got rid of the mail in ballots I have a feeling Libtards wouldn't keep getting voted in.
The corruption is strong here. 😡
I can confirm this. It is a piss filled area now. Walking downtown in the summer especially along 1st Ave in August is excruciating! The aroma of urine is overpowering at times and that’s where all the tourists go for underground city tours! What it must smell like down there considering the direction piss flows… And the mayor and the people who keep voting for the same party will never take responsibility for the situation and just blame others that have nothing to do with how their city is run.
Leo, thank you for the giant dose of reality that your videos bring to us from places that I would never see in person. You are our eyes.
You’re welcome! I’m just trying to point out the truth.
@@LeoMetalTraveler I really appreciate what you're doing too, Leo. Thank you. 🌟
As a Native Portlander of 37 yrs. This city is a bit better than a handful years of go. But it seems like its on the brink of collapse. We have been failed by or politicians and ourselves! Too many want to keep the madness going and not to make a hard change. As a city, we need to do a lot of reflection and stop repeating the same mistakes.
Portland in the 90s n n 00s was a gem!
@@burnintrees420 PORTLAND NEEDS A GOOD DOSE OF RED PAINT…AS FOR NOW IT HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A DRUG HOUSE !!!
I moved here in 96 from LA. I would drive through the city almost every week just to admire the architecture and the vibrancy of the city. It would remind me of the old movies I like to watch of the 30s and 40s in downtown New York City.And then the riots started happening and nobody went to jail. Liberal policies and politicians killed another vibrant city. Just like Detroit, Portland is circling the drain, unfortunately. What a beautiful city, and Democrats killed it.
@@Bona19646Spot On
There is no amount of reflection will change a cities trajectory.
History has proven this.
And most of you asked for this over and over again. Tired of it yet?
It is sad to see how bad policy has made many people jobless that used to work in the stores.
Yet the people jobless still votes for them.
They are all hiding in their houses making TikTok orange man bad videos
Less plooshun if people are not working. There's that...
I moved to Portland in 92 from Tacoma, Wa, and fell in love with Portland. It was so bright, prosperous, clean, and vibrant compared to Tacoma. My favorite thing in the 90s was during the holidays to bundle up with friends and family, and walk around pioneer square, drink coffee, do some shopping, just enjoy the vibe. In 03, I moved about 30 miles south of portland but still pass through a few times a year. The city is dead. Trash, druggies, boarded windows, homeless, crime. Everything is dirty and run down. I won't go into the city for any reason without my .38
Seattle has gotten just as bad.
I just posted the same thing - If I have to drive thru downtown Seattle I keep my .38 tucked under my leg with the safety off.
I also refuse to drive my convertible in downtown now because it's too easy to get robbed in a ragtop. Saw it happen to a car in front of me next to the Space Needle. We were stuck at a red light. Too much cross traffic so the guy in front of me couldn't go anywhere.
If you have to stop for a red light you're a sitting duck.
What part of Tacoma are you from? I grew up in Gig Harbor. Lived in Tacoma for awhile. When I was young we used to cruise Highland Hill & Point Defiance (Owens Beach) back in the " Olden Days". LOL
The weather every winter is rain and 40 - 50⁰ or clear and cold as shit. Last night my car washing bucket of water was frozen solid on the top inch. I miss the old Portland i grew up in!! Californians moved up here and brought their policies with them.
What does the winter weather have to do bad California policies? I want to understand you cause I think I agree but I’m not seeing the connection
IF these stores were REALLY leased, they would not put a sign on the property. More lies.......
Exactly
True, it would only invite damage.
I was stationed at Seattle Sandpoint in the mid to late 80s. Every year I looked forward to going to Portland for the Rose Festival. It was such a beautiful City. It's so sad to see what it's become.
Commonwealth now common poverty!
Communism.
Portlandians will protest themselves into bankruptcy.
Its the politicians enabling it
Who voted for those politicians?
@@Dashtikipchak white unaffected virtue signaling leftists and a good amount of voter fraud
Democrats.
That's the idea our overlords came up with.
DEMOCRATS DID THIS!
Leo, your content is always first-rate. You bring us more news than the s***stream media. Excellent work.
Thank you @oscarmadison8030. It is exactly what I try to point out in my videos the real issues that affects all of us.
@@oscarmadison8530 Even better than the typical democrat youtuber that defends Portland as vibrant and no issues
Wonder if AARP still thinks its one of the top places to retire now?
AARP is a liberal cesspool.
I’m not sure, but I can’t imagine what life would be like in the future if this is the trend.
@@LeoMetalTraveler- Bogata?? 😂
@@LeoMetalTraveleryou saw the local election results. The misery will continue
buffalo wings took flight, LOL
Less foot traffic and the owner was raising their rent. Not good.
Great work as always, stay safe out there
Thank you! And you too.
I live in a college town. Good mix of people. Even here, when Portland gets mentioned, people laugh. I don’t know anyone who would go there on purpose
For lease! You won’t own anything. 🎉
PDX gets the government they deserve.
And voted for.
Vote Blue, down the toilet. Trump haters are PSYCHOPATHS
Early 1960's, dad would sometimes take me to his downtown PDX office on weekdays. I can still see those same streets you're walking BUSTLING with people, window displays everywhere and the smells of the coffee shops and restaurants. Another world.... all GONE!!!!
It is sad to see.
No way will retail happen again in downtown everywhere ville.❤
Downtowns are toast! here in Boston MA so many high rises are sitting empty and the tax revenue is gone!! They are gonna raise taxes on house holds.....what do you think I'maa do.....move!!
Even the homeless people have left it's that bad.
A total "Ghost Town" !!!
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Thank you Leo for your continued broadcasts.
You are so welcome , thanks for listening
Vote 🗳️ Blue 😂 that always works out 🎉🤣
@@DamienThorn6666 yup
So the homeless are putting all the stores to shut down, not just in Portland 🤬San Francisco is a trash can.
Yes. The last Republican Portland mayor was 1980. So 44 years of working out. 🤣😂😆😄😅😆
@danw2112 ironically that is the same time that Oregon went full mail in voting,
@danw2112 ha
I think the coming soon signs are a ruse to make people think things are looking up.
Things are looking down if you observed the local election results
Yeah, downtown Portland is a ghost town, ever since COVID-19 and the Summer of Love
office space is over 30% vacancy rate and that doesn't include contracts expiring soon!
Good. Who wants to work in an office?
I visited a friend I went to High School in Pennsylvania back in 2015 in Portland. There was stores and restaurants every corner then. The only negative place back then was the park in front of Portland State University. There were druggies hanging out and or living most of the time in the park. Blue cities across the country are all failed now. They blew it on a grand scale.
I live in Portland and it sure is not what it used to be. It's depressing.
Move! I sold my house in Clackamas in AUG 2023, and got the hell out of Dodge! Liberal HELL HOLE
@@JanuaryRapture I read that they want everyone moving everywhere all the time. It's a great way to get what they want. 🐈⬛ & 🐁
@@JanuaryRapture It sure is a liberal hell hole. I am so sick of seeing men in dresses. Unfortunately I'm trapped here. I have no car, no money and to get on a Greyhound, I would have to give away almost all my clothes because you can't take much when you travel Greyhound.
Keep voting blue no matter who...😂😂😂
@jwdory
DEMONRATS BLOW DONKEYS
Everyone in Portland wants this
Seems like it
So, do people just not leave the house now?
Only to swap it for a park bench
A lot of retail and restaurants moved to the Portland suburbs, which are thriving. Portland's loss is Beaverton, Hillsboro, Clackamas and Vancouver's gain.
Outside of special events like concerts on the waterfront, most locals avoid downtown.
couldn't have happened to a more deserving city
Too bad you're still around. It was likely you that made everyone leave. Go have a coke and a smile. Or what ever it is that you despise. Somewhere else.
Metal Leo, in answer to your question: Vacant retail space is called "2nd generation" when it has already been built out by a previous tenant. Second- generation spaces can be advantageous for new tenants and owners because they come with existing infrastructure items. For example, a restaurant space that was previously occupied may have a hood, ventilation system, grease trap, and plumbing with lots of drains. This can save new tenants time and money on construction and build-out costs. Fyi - The majority of those vacant buildings you passed by on your video tour of downtown Portland, Oregon, are now completely bank owned properties, as the previous owners of them defaulted on their mortgages. This is also true for San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other fiscally declining cities.
Good info 👍
Bank owned, huh? Well, that might partly explain why they let this happen
@@roarbertbearatheon8565 Keep in mind those banks experienced major red ink in accepting those properties by bankruptcy. The loans they made were from a time when property values were MUCH higher. No bank likes red ink. The collapse of commercial real-estate is drawing several banks to the edge of collapse.
Summary: Bank owned does not mean big profits for banks.
@@addertooth1 Don't worry. In the future all banks are Wells Fargo.
By the way, Wells Fargo just put Wendy Williams under conservatorship. Yes, you're bank can declare you mentally incompetent now and assign someone else to 'watch' your money.
Lived in portland since 92, everyone knows how awesome the city used to be. What's most shocking about this, is that no one is talking about it? It's not on the local news at all? This is unbelievable, the city is essentially gone! No business and no people. Crazy!! Used to be bustling!
ALL the news - including Local - has been against us for a very long time. They just make it seem like they're not.
Well, at least most of the filth, bums, and drugs are gone. It will take the business community a long time to trust the city of Portland again. Once bitten, twice shy.
I think business people need to rise up everywhere and start taking back their world. If they want one, that is.
bums are gone no people to bum off-the outer city now being consumed by homeless
We drive around Portland these days, avoid it like the plague. We used to eat and shop and otherwise recreate in portland at least 2 days a month, often more. For the last 7 years, not a dime of my money or a second of my time spent there. All my friends and family have moved to the suburbs or farther away....or are in the process. Liberal stranglehold, the slow death is almost complete.
During Covid all over Southern California you couldn’t find a restroom to use.
Everyone would put signs “out of order” cuz the kids didn’t want to clean them or get sick
Those were scary times. It showed the true colors of people.
Lame
Scared of absolutely nothing.
Media and politicians planted and fertilized the fear
I'm just glad I live in East Texas instead of Portland.
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Do you know if they did the same thing to Austin?
Portland, Oregon is.....Goonnnne Now!
Leftists youtubers will say that Portland is ok and that there are no issues
My question is.... how are states/cities going to run without all the tax revenue these businesses and their employees generated? Same here in CA
They're cutting services and raising taxes 😅
China has been buying up key city blocks in all of these cities. Coincidence?
@@melissasmess2773 That will only go so far.
@@888jimm Nearly everyone is going homeless in CA, good luck getting that revenue back.
Crime. Organized crime has taken control of most of our governments. They run drugs and traffic women and children and other contraband, like weapons and defense technology. Then they launder those monies through insider stock market trading, funding wars, other government-funded research projects, NGOs, "charity" foundations etc. They pay officials lower down (like the mayor and city council of Portland) to shut up and take orders. And of course, they raise taxes. Ultimately, they DON'T CARE if cities and states "run" or not. They don't care about people at all. The smarter among them know that the end result will be the return of feudal society (with a "1984" surveillance flair.)
This will consist of: one, a vast, barely surviving worker class, inured to poverty, numbed, dumbed down and programmed by the state-owned media machine to conform and obey. Two, a small, uberwealthy elite class who control everything, and a slightly larger, slightly privileged servant class (in marxism they're called the "useful idiots") who do their dirty work for them. This situation is further complicated by the presence of various hostile foreign entities--governments, religious fanatics, billionaire oligarchs, criminal syndicates etc., who also have a strong interest in deconstructing the west for their own gain, and who are constantly striving to weaken, exploit, destabilize and plunder us and our resources.
The reason why criminals have infiltrated our universities and destroyed creative, critical thinking, and flooded our countries with vast numbers of immigrants from cultures they KNOW to be less humane, less civilized, far more violent and inimical to our western values, is to disrupt our society and destroy our educated, free thinking middle class--those who would most strongly oppose them, maybe even stop them.
IMO it's hopeless at this point. I think that individuals like Trump may be able to produce some brief upturns and small victories, but I don't see them winning the war, because they are not ruthless enough. And it IS a war. Make no mistake about that.
Three kings.....now NO kings.........
hahahahahaha
The King is Dead
People who took the boosters - GONE NOW
😂
lol
Another fairy tale.
LOL, but seriously, for the average healthy person, boosters have shown no benefit. You only need them if you're immuno-compromised, which is just a tiny fraction of the population.
@@marcjohnson9270 In 2008 banks decided no more losses for themselves, and ended free market capitalism in the west. your nation went communist. nobody can compete with a bank that can print unlimited money ?
So very sad what the government has done to these ones great cities. I was in Portland about 8 years ago and it was a much different place.
the situation seems to have escalated in many cities in the USA but here in Europe we are a little behind but I am starting to see this more and more in Sweden too, in some of the big shopping malls many shops have closed and this is noticed in the media sometimes where the cause is blamed on high rents and inflation but it will get worse I feel.
We love your videos.
You're appreciated Metal Leo❤
@@thesearcher118 No sugar coating, showing it like it is
Businesses can’t survive with the crime. Broadway dispensary opened, one week later was broken into and trashed. Two weeks later the building is for sale. They couldn’t even last a month.
There are hardly any people there either. Most of the traffic is through traffic. You have to have a certain level of population if you're going to be able to conduct a storefront business in a neighborhood. Rents and mortgage payments are probably way too high. These large firms are buying up properties and wanting impossible amounts for rents and mortgages. They need to be reeled in. Both sides of the phony political spectrum work hand in hand with these large acquisition firms. You're not going to vote your way out of this problem. For those who think you can, STOP BEING STUPID!
Two wings of the same bird. 🤡🤡🤡🤡
I living Antioch and the Walgreens there is gone now. It closed weeks ago.
rock bottom brewery hit rock bottom
Don’t worry leftists are “ reimagining “ downtown and soon it will be super duper fabulous.
Well at least the window sign business is doing good. 😂
THIS is reality - BOARDS, BOARDS, BOARDS! Gone Now!! Retail shopping has nearly been eliminated in that area. Poor Portland. Oregon's largest city, with over 600,000 (supposedly) has lost many of its stores and looks like a ghost town!
It is sad to see!
@@LeoMetalTraveler, No doubt. ☹
Biggest issue is lack of enforcement. The license plate lacking vehicles with people driving recklessly.
All these spaces empty. It’s lost tax revenue and there’s no increases per year to keep up with inflation. Portland needs to clean up.
Used to visit Portland regularly, but last visit was shocking - none of the restaurants or stores we used to frequent were left, literally every sidewalk had homeless living in tents on it, and there were non-stop incidents everywhere we went. Sad.
RIP Portland. Thanks for the video. What happened to a city I once loved? We left 11 years ago. Lived there for 28 years. I no longer recognize Portland. I lived downtown and went to school at Portland State University during the great 1990's. Lived on the park blocks, and I loved it. Cafes, bars, restaurants all hopping and full of people. Portland in 2024 is officially dead. It used to be so nice. Gone is once awesome Rock Bottom Brewery. The Cheerful Tortoise. Spent many a fun evening in Downtown back then. Everything is boarded up and closed.
Thanks for exposing the truth Leo. Last time I was in Portland was for a wedding. We had so much fun and the city was jumping with bars and restaurants now it looks dead. You’re right that it’s better than San Francisco though. Tragic
Seattle is a close shiithole competitor
I remember in the 2000s Portland was the place
even the people look broke and impoverished. keep voting democrat!
They never learn!
Thanks!
Welcome! @kurtfox2481
I used to love this city. But I’ll never set foot in that city again.
It wouldn't surprise me to see realtor listings for prime tent space there. I can imagine the listings for current tent properties would go something like this: 3 tarps, with an extra large contractor trash bag extension added last year. Bathroom in the entryway of the old movie house next door. Offers pending!
Man is that depressing
Strange that there's lots of traffic on the streets but hardly anyone walking on the sidewalks. Where's all the cars going? 😮
Actually, in comparison to 5/10 years ago, the traffic seen in the video wouldn't even match the amount of parked vehicles along the curbs. And dozens of pedestrians would have filled every sidewalk.
Amazing, who's taking the financial hit? I guess commercial realestate investment is heavily being written off.
Of course
Every comment gets erased. I can't post anything on this subject. WHY?
I lived in downtown Portland for 6 years . Left in 2001 for another job. I used to walk everywhere. Always something going on. Sad changes.
I remember how our downtown looked like this in the 80s. The restaurants were only open for breakfast snd lunch and closed on the weekend because nobody hung around after work. It took a long time to revitalize downtown and together people to want to live there.
Looks like Olympia, the blue wave washes away all prosperity.
Some say work from home really gutted downtown areas. I think is more people tolerated the conditions of downtown areas because they HAD to go there. Cities grossly overestimated their popularity and found out when the people started working from home and was not forced to go in. Who the heck want to go shopping in the city?
Adecco was a contractor for hire company for IT people. They got bought out.
I went back to my haunt, the I-5 corridor, that I left in 2013. A bartender at a restaurant I frequented as a teen, kicked me out thinking I was an addict when I'm clean as a whistle. The place is now filthy and terrifying-NOT where I lived the first 36 years of my life. I couldn't WAIT to get back home to the other side of Washington! 😢
I feel your pain. I live in nearby Vancouver and had no idea how bad downtown was until I watched this.
But I will always remember the beautiful bustling downtown of my childhood. Watching the rose parade with all of it's participants, winding through a vibrant, productive, and prosperous city. A welcoming city...
Open: a psychic reading place and a liquor store. I'll be right there.
You cant go to Las Vegas bc LV doesnt have a "downtown". No buildings there. Just the Courthouse, police dept and up the street are all the casinos. LV has one of the worst unemployment rates in the country.
Are the casinos laying off?
@@epicarts2105 thats not the point
You get the city you deserve
this actually is more than 100 percent better than it was a year ago when I moved from my once beautiful PDX, lol. The areas you visited are always kind of marginal but admittedly there are a ton of vacancies that were rented prior to 2016. Things have been real bad in PDX ever since we legalized drugs, sad to say. we got inundated with lowlifes from all across the USA, many of whom quickly got hooked on Meth and became to live in meth camps. PDX is just another sh*tty American city now. Used to be an urban paradise.
Give democrats enough time and they will change a once working city into a dysfunctional city in decline.
And they’ll double down when you show them this type of evidence, they’ll say that it’s better than having a racist piece of shit Republican as mayor or governor.
Maybe a little bit in the 90s but then went down hill back in 2000.
So sad what they did to downtown Portland. Lived there for almost 15 years before leaving in 2016. Was downtown last summer to take the kids to Powell's but you could feel it's just not the same as it was before. Like all the life was sucked out of downtown. Brother still lives there but never goes downtown. Nothing down really down there plus he said it's a 50/50 shot you could run into a crazy homeless person.
Happy Holidays Leo🎉
Happy holidays!
The whole downtown seems dead. It used to be so lively back in the 1990's. We left Portland 11years ago. It's just not the same place in 2024.
Such a shame what happened to our cities. Tons of people would love to live in downtown areas but investors bought up all the property and they think that rent costs 3k to 4k. So now everything sits empty and crime runs wild because there are no people around. Stores close because no people are around.
When business goes away and custemers. There goes tents.
Dude honks horn to make sure he’s not asleep, stuck in some nightmare.
I lived in Portland for 14 years and moved to Florida in 1990. I could not imagine ever living there again. Portland is just a shell of what it was when I lived there. Kinda sad.
go woke go broke
The 90s was the height of downtown - it was great! I used to love going into Portland to hang out, but now it's just dead.