Portland is a great town.
You must be an ignorant nutjob lib that doesn’t have a clue about Portland and doesn’t have to live here I would guess. What do you find so great about Portland? Be specific please. I know Portland and every neighborhood in it better than anyone I have ever met. Not brag just fact.
Mind you this is my hometown and it still sucks.
It's a city that still exists on a human scale. There are real neighborhoods that adjoin the downtown. Great parks nearby. The riverfront, decent old and interested architecture, rows of restaurants on what feel like neighborhood streets (what people in Seattle now drive to Ballard to experience), a really underrated food and bar scene. IDK, what don't you like about it that doesn't have to do with politics?
Portland is a great town.
You must be an ignorant nutjob lib that doesn’t have a clue about Portland and doesn’t have to live here I would guess. What do you find so great about Portland? Be specific please. I know Portland and every neighborhood in it better than anyone I have ever met. Not brag just fact.
Mind you this is my hometown and it still sucks.
It's a city that still exists on a human scale. There are real neighborhoods that adjoin the downtown. Great parks nearby. The riverfront, decent old and interested architecture, rows of restaurants on what feel like neighborhood streets (what people in Seattle now drive to Ballard to experience), a really underrated food and bar scene. IDK, what don't you like about it that doesn't have to do with politics?
Portland is a city run by hypocrites. Those neighborhoods have winners and losers. Where the Democrat elites favor life is great. SE neighborhoods like Foster-Powell, Lents, Brentwood Darlington, Arleta, Rockwood etc. and all of felony flats are forgotten with horrible pothole streets, failing schools and crime rates higher than other favored parts of the city.
At the same time where many Elite Democrat politicians Live in the Pearl the people that bought condos there were given a break on their property taxes.
The main Anchor High School in SE Portland, Marshall even though one of the newest was chosen to close. SE Portland kids have to be bused to Franklin, Cleveland or other schools.
Why vote in Portland. The North-South light rail was turned down twice by the voters of Portland and Vancouver. Democrat Elites gave the voters the middle finger and built it anyway.
Our taxes are continually used illegally for things they weren’t meant for. They used CITY sewer funds to fund Portland Public Schools which isn’t administered by the city.
Portland passed it’s own gas tax and only a small portion goes to roads. I’m sure none of the roads in SE Portland will be fixed before the planned bike paths are finished which will be never.
Portland has a patina of civility covering bigotry, bias and favoritism towards the liberal well healed.
Portland used to be the 2nd leading dry goods port on the West Coast. Because of strikes and lack of imagination and support by politicians it is a shadow of it’s former self.
This is only touching the surface why I can’t stand my hometown.