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[cjseliga]

Originally Posted by CARas2020

Other parts of the country actually have cold a snowy winters. They migrate here because of the milder winter. I was in Minneapolis a few years ago and we saw ZERO homeless people.


Soi sure blame "liberals" but I would rather be that than a racist bigot who think they need to be in everyone's business. Telling me what i can and cannot do with my own body. Go to Hr&^

Yeah, if I was homeless the last place I would want to spend winters is the Twin Cities or Chicago, I would try and be a "homeless snowbird", which do exist, they spend the summers in the Midwest, then migrate via rail or hitchhiking to the PNW/Cali/deserts of Arizona for the winters!

[Rider51]

I currently live in New England. Most winters here aren't as cold as the upper midwest, but they are far colder than Portland. They are also longer. Often winter like conditions here in April. We also get Nor'Easters, which are essentially really nasty blizzards, and basically kill pretty much anything stuck outside for long periods of time.

Very few homeless people here. Some in the summer months. None over the winter. Those that survive in Boston, or down to New York, do so inside somewhere.

[teddyearp]

Originally Posted by chitown50s

Late-stage capitalism - <snip>

Capitalism has been around for thousands of years. Or did you think those shops in the ancient Roman, Greek, Egyptian, etc., ruins were all owned by the .gov?

[Guineas]

Originally Posted by bus man

What do all these cities have in common? They are located in liberal West Coast states where being seen to be "doing good" is more important than actually solving problems, and where showing "compassion" to the homeless is causing massive degradations in the overall quality of life while doing nothing to benefit the homeless people themselves.

Seattle is the same. Quality of life has noticeably declined in the past year, worse than during the peak of the pandemic in 2020. Graffiti and trash everywhere in the city proper. Property crime skyrocketing as there is zero prosecution.

[CARas2020]

Originally Posted by cjseliga

Yeah, if I was homeless the last place I would want to spend winters is the Twin Cities or Chicago, I would try and be a "homeless snowbird", which do exist, they spend the summers in the Midwest, then migrate via rail or hitchhiking to the PNW/Cali/deserts of Arizona for the winters!

LOL, I agree I would have to be a snowbird too.

It was about -25 when I was in Minneapolis. The bus shanty's had heaters but really didn't help. Even with a bunch of people in there we were still freezing. They do a great job of clearing side walks except on the corners. It's mini mountains to climb.

[TheseGoTo11]

I used to love Portland. My wife is a native. I'm making what could be my last trip up (after about 30 or so the last 15 years) there this weekend as we get her stuff out of her parents house before they move.

I travel a lot and no city has created more self-inflicted wounds over the last few years. The "must wear N95s" places are laughable when DT has become a public toilet. As a native New Englander, I always felt Portland had a respect for public space that New England has. Instead has the disrespect for it San Francisco has, but without the large employers invested in keeping it somewhat clean. On top of that, Oregon is the only place with more restrictive mask mandates than California, again a joke given the squalor downtown, with no connection whatsoever to science, only to virtue signaling. That virtue signaling was cute in a Portlandia sort of way five or ten years ago, now it looks ridiculous given the state of the city.

[Guineas]

Originally Posted by TheseGoTo11

I used to love Portland. My wife is a native. I'm making what could be my last trip up (after about 30 or so the last 15 years) there this weekend as we get her stuff out of her parents house before they move.

I travel a lot and no city has created more self-inflicted wounds over the last few years. The "must wear N95s" places are laughable when DT has become a public toilet. As a native New Englander, I always felt Portland had a respect for public space that New England has. Instead has the disrespect for it San Francisco has, but without the large employers invested in keeping it somewhat clean. On top of that, Oregon is the only place with more restrictive mask mandates than California, again a joke given the squalor downtown, with no connection whatsoever to science, only to virtue signaling. That virtue signaling was cute in a Portlandia sort of way five or ten years ago, now it looks ridiculous given the state of the city.

Single party rule sucks everywhere, including in North Korea. We need to have more regional parties like they do in Germany, that way on the local level there is still a choice and competition among the parties.

In much of the US, local levels of government have become single party fiefdoms. Places like Portland highlight well the failure of single party rule.

[WestieWhitie]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

Well, yes. If you have enough wealth, it does tend to insulate you at least a bit. Is that the secret to living in Portland? Only move there if you have much higher than normal income?

Have the nicer parts adjacent to Washington Park gone down the toilet along with the rest of the city? I remember those still being tolerable back in the summer of 2021 - saw a few tents here and there but nothing straight out of the walking dead that I witnessed in other parts of town.