I was there a month ago and over all Portland is looking beautiful and was full of life. Just stay out of the area from like 60th to 181st/Foster to Burnside and it’s amazing. EVERY city has bad areas. EVERY city. Portland is no exception. But over all it’s beautiful.
@ Ya, it sounds like a lot. But if you look at a map of the whole metropolitan, it’s not as substantial of an area as it sounds. Interestingly I’d say Portland is finally up to a normal ratio of almost all U.S. cities it regards to the undesirable/desirable areas. It used to be ahead of the game. Now it’s in the norm of all other cities I’ve been to. Again I’m only referring to the ratio of good to bad areas. But make no mistake, the good areas in Portland blow most cities out of the water in my opinion when it comes to beauty and desirability.
I was just downtown a week ago and it looked really nice near the waterfront at Salmon Street Springs to OHSU. It's feeling better. The sense is it is improving...
Im a nomad who travels and spends time all over the country. Orginally from texas and all i heard from the media and from other people was "portland is a war zone" "portland is unsafe and you will be in danger" blah blah blah. I take what people say into consideration but i always have to see things for myself. Everything i heard was all lies. Portland is one of the most beautiful cities in the country. Not once did i feel unsafe. Is there little pockets here and there that might be best to avoid, of course. There are those pockets in every city in america. Portland is no more dangerous than any other city. The pnw is amazing is beautiful and i cant wait to return
But, conservatives being scared to come here is pretty awesome… I’ve learned to embrace the “Portland’s on fire” narrative. Most of the new residents are minority, queer and/or parents of queer children. Those are precisely the folks Portland needs more of. Let the conservative white folks move to Boise or Salt Lake City 🤷♂️
I can't speak to all the cities you say it's just like, but Portland is absolutely nothing like it was prior to 10 years ago. Maybe it was just extra nice comparing to other cities, i guess its what you are used to. The same with Seattle, they both appeal to criminals and drug addicts with all the free services and no consequences on breaking the laws. Homelessness is up 40% in one year and only about 2% are from Oregon.
I live in Portland and have for 40 years. I love Portland, but the downtown is not as vibrant as it was in the 90s to the Pandemic. It's not apocolype now, but the downtown area is basically a ghost town compared to what is was. Corporations have left downtown, many retail operations have closed with the result there is way less foot traffic. Dangerous? Hell no! Hopefully, downtown will reinvent itself and come back to the dynamic sensibility it had pre Covid. Get out into the neighborhoods and you will find open businesses and lots of foot and bicycle traffic.
Businesses have got to get employees back to the office for the health of all of our big cities. Our restaurants, shops, big businesses, etc. all depend on it. Not a popular statement I'm sure but so necessary.
Ty for this tour! I moved away in 2019 for work but my partner and I sometimes consider moving back. The state of downtown in the last several years has been a big concern so glad to see it’s improving!!
I lived in Portland years ago before it got bad. I’m so happy to see and hear that it’s getting better. I always wanted to go back to live in Portland again. Maybe it’s actually possible now that it’s getting cleaned up! This gives me hope!
I heard that you guys got a new mayor who’s looking to clean up the homeless problem. It seems like things are moving in the right direction. I plan on moving there when I graduate next year !
I've been in downtown Portland twice in the last month. It was clean, peaceful and hopping. Portland definitely had problems a few years ago but she's making big strides in her upswing. Businesses do need to bring employees back to the offices (at least 50/50) for the health of restaurants, shops and big businesses. So important for the health of our big cities.
I missing Portland 11 years ago I used to live there for awhile, such a beautiful city chillax and clam. (also good coffee too) I love Trimet and all great transportation. I would love to go back visiting again if I can. (It is very difficult to apply for a US visa) Wish me luck to visit Portland again to complete my bucketlist. Thanks for some new informations and good bright view of downtown that I have miss.
I used to live there but moved away years ago. I also heard that it went downhill really bad. Im glad to see that it still shows signs of life. It's a beautiful part of the country.
It never went as far downhill as big media and certain political affiliations would want you to believe. Yes, she has problems but she's in a major turn around and looking good.
I live in the hills and in and around downtown on a regular basis and I can say that it has greatly improved over the past 2 years. The only area that still needs improvement is the Chinatown area. The Eastside neighborhoods are great and flourishing. It seems that most of the homeless are being pushed to areas around he 205 freeway.
Downtown is looking great these days. Thanks for the video. Those boarded up stores were just getting ready for election unrest, but nothing happened. James Beard Public Market opening next year one block from pioneer square! ❤
I'm glad to see the downtown area recovering from the mess it was in a few years ago, but if I ever moved back, I think I would return to the Couve, also known as Vancouver, USA. The new waterfront there is beautiful, and it's only 9 miles from downtown if you want the big city experience from time to time.
Downtown west of Broadway is full steam ahead. Its turning into Pearl 2.0. East of Broadway and north of the mall needs some help. Inner east side is Pearl 3.0. I live close in and there is development everywhere.
Wife and I had a condo downtown for a few years. Sold it four years ago. Really enjoyed the theatre, dinning and shopping. Some of our best memories. Foot traffic in your video seems sparse. Early morning on a Sunday?
I rode it once about a year and a half to two years ago and there was no way I was going to take my kids on the train, luckily that time was solo. I rode the train with my kids downtown about two months ago and it was way different than that last experience. There was a presence of security guards.
@16:15 you need to turn left go that way that is where the real action is. Don't be a wimp just do it. I do it all the time cause I'm a delivery driver so I know that area real good. China town is the heart of the shit lol.
I watched a video of PDX yesterday. DRAMATIC improvement from last trip there 8/23. I live rural to PDX @25 miles. I called it the Pantifapocalyps Wheelerchair Wreck for years. I'm back to PDX. I thought it was permanent disaster hell hole. Not so 😊
What he is not telling you is all those buildings are empty! Businesses are gone they are moving out in droves. He also failed to show the boarded up buildings that make up the portland area.
@@guywhatley3219 a lot of boarded up buildings were shown throughout and it was mentioned that Portland has the highest commercial vacancy rate of any major city in the county.
And the open drug use was scary, disgusting and dangerous. We literally saw two people shooting up. In a busy street off Alder Street near all the “nice” hotels etc.
Sorry to hear that. Oregon decriminalized hard drugs in 2020, along with directing cannabis tax revenue to treatment. We recriminalized it last spring but kept the treatment aspect of the bill. Police are doing some serious arresting now, and it’ll turn around soon I think.
You missed the fact that downtown Portland has the highest commercial vacancy rate in the entire country - that's how many businesses moved out. Worse than Detroit. Worse than Atlanta or anywhere in Texas. REI moved out. Target left the city. Walmart left. Portland Clinic announced they're moving out this week. Notice there is no foot traffic? Notice how empty it is mid-day? Portland population has been declining for 3 straight years and on track for a 4th - making it the 6th fastest shrinking major city in the country. Add to that the highest tax rate on anyone outside of New York millionaires - and all the middle class are fleeing in 2024. Be sure to check the extra income taxes that you'll be paying for childcare for all 1% of your income, and homeless services 2% of your income - all slated to go up to 2-4% of your income in the next few years.
It was mentioned at 11:17 actually, and important for people to know. We've talked a lot in videos about Portland's shrinking population and crazy high tax rate (state + local). I was out walking around about 9:30AM on a Thursday, but yeah, downtown is pretty dead. Not trying to be defensive here, I promise. I just want to make sure people know that we're not trying to be deceptive. We have no incentive to hide something only for someone to find out later that it wasn't true. And... hot off the press today, Portland's population "increased by a sliver" in from 2023. www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/11/portlands-population-rises-for-first-time-after-three-years-of-declines-portland-state-reports.html?
Portland has quite a few bad areas. This from a frequent visitor and former resident of 47 years. There are so many vacancies downtown. Nobody is shopping or doing much business down there. Pioneer Place is a shadow of its former self.
@@georgehenderson7783 it’s 9 30 a.m. on a Thursday morning, but, downtown is usually pretty dead. There are a couple of places adjacent to downtown, like Northwest District and the Pearl District, that you would expect to see more people out and about any time of day. Hope that helps.
I live downtown. It is always dead. There's not much left but Nordstrom and Zara and H and M. Saw Chase bank by Pioneer Square is closing. Appears Ecru, stationery store, closed. Fed Ex on SW 5th just closed. We are promised downtown will get better but it doesn't. Did the city employees ever come back to work downtown?
This was two days after the election. Many businesses/buildings were boarded up in anticipation of some unrest. This was partly why I started the video at the primary riot congregation area from 2020... to show that there as nothing, literally nothing, going on.
1st two minutes of your video you choose to walk thru the GOVERNMENT owned part of downtown. The whole South side of 1st along the river are buildings owned or leased by government agencies. Your low key plaid shirt fools no one!
DO NOT talk to people about downtown pdx that do not live there. Watch the media and you will die if you go down here. Having lived down there.. zero difference from any other downtown area. The culture.. food.. and people watching.. second to none! As a far right voter - I love PDX!!
@@StreetFighter23 Coming from deep red state... doesnt bother me at all.. I see purple hair I dont look in their direction lol. They mostly leave you alone!
I live in Portland proper. From a much larger city. Look at your video and you’ll notice you are downtown and it is DEAD. Zero urban hustle and bustle city life. Easily the most vacant down town area in America or anywhere I’ve been to overseas. That is a big problem. Imagine if you’re a tourist and visiting our city and you go down town and you notice the boarded up windows and zero people out shopping, eating, drinking etc. It doesn’t bode well for the outlook of PDX. This city is a dud sadly. Sure it’s less grimey than it was a couple years ago but now it’s just a ghost town and the only people down there are either a) Portland weird blue hairs or b) homeless or c) people that grew up here and never left for substantial time of their lives
The downtown core is for sure dead, and one of the goals of this video was to illustrate that. Portland has more commercial vacancies than any other large city in the country. If you're a tourist, you probably would not go downtown, or at least wouldn't spend much time there. Even walking around the Pearl District just blocks away is a totally difference experience with people out and about at shops and restaurants. Most people tend to gravitate more toward the neighborhood areas of Portland than the city center. This isn't all too different from other cities around the country... LA even, for example. There is plenty to get out and see, taste, etc. if you're a tourist. You lost me at the generalization of only three categories of people. Surely there are folks with other colors of hair dye than just blue.
@ outside of LA most downtowns were/and or are currently bustling during the day and have a lot of tourists. I recall 20 years ago when I first was visiting Portland there would be people hanging out all over downtown and even china town. Pearl district is just such a small area and most of the hotels are downtown hence why tourists might want to explore that area as you would in any other city in America (Chicago, New York, SF up until recently, Miami, etc etc). I understand that the downtown is never going to be the super cool place to be but it shouldn’t be deserted 7 days a week as you point out. My biggest problem I have with Portland is that even the “cool” areas are dead. I live on Williams Ave blocks away from all of the restaurants, blocks from Mississippi, hang out all over this city. People here just don’t leave their homes and socialize nearly as much as other cities here in America and far less than overseas for that matter. It’s just a city of antisocial personalities. I don’t know if you’ve moved around a lot as an adult and I don’t expect you to. But this city has been a repellent to interesting urban types and has been a lightening rod for weirdos that are more content sitting inside with a cat on their lap. It’s sad as Portland could be and has been so much better
Good video, though I'd have spent less time talking about people's "perceptions", more time on ACTUAL crime data (or other relevant stats). Social media is toxic clickbait for the gullible.
Left 2 years ago. All I can remember is going downtown to the Apple Store that was completely fenced in with a huge galvanized fence to keep trouble out. Also the Louis Vuitton store that had all the windows smashed in for a mass theft. Homeless tents everywhere. Glad to hear they are Finally cracking down on crime and drugs. We were there for eleven years- sorry, won’t be coming back unless it goes Red- too many liberals caused all the chaos. Aloha
@stevencarter385 no, you are. 1. Open border will be dealt with. 2. No wars will be started (but 2 will likely end). 3. Democrats have a great chance to recalibrate their leftist platform.
I believe you are correct! I have lived accross the country in various cities ranging from huge cities with certain political leanings to small towns with other political leanings and the common denomonator is that these problems aren't just in one place. These problems are truly in every location I have lived in, to varying degrees respectively. And realizing that has been difficult for me to accept, because that means this is structural, systemic, institutional, massive, just massive problems. Finger pointing is not fixing these monstrous issues that are systemically affecting every single one of us. To face my own biases and "grass is greener on the other side" mentality has opened my eyes, but it is still a very harsh truth to have to accept. I fear the longer we as a country refuse to see this, the harder life will continue to be. And yes, the new orange man regime will only amplify the aforementioned problems at a break-neck pace
Biggest mistake people make about talking about a city, state, place is making it about themselves. STOP videoing yourself! This should be about Portland, not YOU.
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I was there a month ago and over all Portland is looking beautiful and was full of life. Just stay out of the area from like 60th to 181st/Foster to Burnside and it’s amazing. EVERY city has bad areas. EVERY city. Portland is no exception. But over all it’s beautiful.
avoid 120 streets?
@ Exactly.
120 blocks to "avoid". Good grief.
@@GUITARTIME2024 that's literally like 5% of the city.
@ Ya, it sounds like a lot. But if you look at a map of the whole metropolitan, it’s not as substantial of an area as it sounds. Interestingly I’d say Portland is finally up to a normal ratio of almost all U.S. cities it regards to the undesirable/desirable areas. It used to be ahead of the game. Now it’s in the norm of all other cities I’ve been to. Again I’m only referring to the ratio of good to bad areas. But make no mistake, the good areas in Portland blow most cities out of the water in my opinion when it comes to beauty and desirability.
I was just downtown a week ago and it looked really nice near the waterfront at Salmon Street Springs to OHSU. It's feeling better. The sense is it is improving...
Im a nomad who travels and spends time all over the country. Orginally from texas and all i heard from the media and from other people was "portland is a war zone" "portland is unsafe and you will be in danger" blah blah blah. I take what people say into consideration but i always have to see things for myself. Everything i heard was all lies. Portland is one of the most beautiful cities in the country. Not once did i feel unsafe. Is there little pockets here and there that might be best to avoid, of course. There are those pockets in every city in america. Portland is no more dangerous than any other city. The pnw is amazing is beautiful and i cant wait to return
But, conservatives being scared to come here is pretty awesome… I’ve learned to embrace the “Portland’s on fire” narrative. Most of the new residents are minority, queer and/or parents of queer children. Those are precisely the folks Portland needs more of. Let the conservative white folks move to Boise or Salt Lake City 🤷♂️
I can't speak to all the cities you say it's just like, but Portland is absolutely nothing like it was prior to 10 years ago. Maybe it was just extra nice comparing to other cities, i guess its what you are used to. The same with Seattle, they both appeal to criminals and drug addicts with all the free services and no consequences on breaking the laws. Homelessness is up 40% in one year and only about 2% are from Oregon.
I live in Portland and have for 40 years. I love Portland, but the downtown is not as vibrant as it was in the 90s to the Pandemic. It's not apocolype now, but the downtown area is basically a ghost town compared to what is was. Corporations have left downtown, many retail operations have closed with the result there is way less foot traffic. Dangerous? Hell no! Hopefully, downtown will reinvent itself and come back to the dynamic sensibility it had pre Covid. Get out into the neighborhoods and you will find open businesses and lots of foot and bicycle traffic.
Businesses have got to get employees back to the office for the health of all of our big cities. Our restaurants, shops, big businesses, etc. all depend on it. Not a popular statement I'm sure but so necessary.
Ty for this tour! I moved away in 2019 for work but my partner and I sometimes consider moving back. The state of downtown in the last several years has been a big concern so glad to see it’s improving!!
I lived in Portland years ago before it got bad. I’m so happy to see and hear that it’s getting better. I always wanted to go back to live in Portland again. Maybe it’s actually possible now that it’s getting cleaned up! This gives me hope!
She's returning to her former beauty and charm. Give it a go!
I heard that you guys got a new mayor who’s looking to clean up the homeless problem. It seems like things are moving in the right direction. I plan on moving there when I graduate next year !
Yes, it's so much better than it was a few years ago. Portland's on a major upswing and returning to her former charm and beauty.
I've been in downtown Portland twice in the last month. It was clean, peaceful and hopping. Portland definitely had problems a few years ago but she's making big strides in her upswing. Businesses do need to bring employees back to the offices (at least 50/50) for the health of restaurants, shops and big businesses. So important for the health of our big cities.
Thank you for the video. Much appreciated! Considering the move.
I missing Portland 11 years ago I used to live there for awhile, such a beautiful city chillax and clam. (also good coffee too) I love Trimet and all great transportation. I would love to go back visiting again if I can. (It is very difficult to apply for a US visa) Wish me luck to visit Portland again to complete my bucketlist.
Thanks for some new informations and good bright view of downtown that I have miss.
I used to live there but moved away years ago. I also heard that it went downhill really bad. Im glad to see that it still shows signs of life. It's a beautiful part of the country.
It never went as far downhill as big media and certain political affiliations would want you to believe. Yes, she has problems but she's in a major turn around and looking good.
I live in the hills and in and around downtown on a regular basis and I can say that it has greatly improved over the past 2 years. The only area that still needs improvement is the Chinatown area. The Eastside neighborhoods are great and flourishing. It seems that most of the homeless are being pushed to areas around he 205 freeway.
Downtown is looking great these days. Thanks for the video. Those boarded up stores were just getting ready for election unrest, but nothing happened. James Beard Public Market opening next year one block from pioneer square! ❤
Moving back in May and cannot wait.
Come for the views, stay for the state-rape, state-robbery and state enslavement... you've been warned.
Portland has lots of potential; downtown promises much development! Baseball, cultural arts, and expanding OHSU. God stuff!
Buckle up. Multnomah County just ordered 6,500 new tents to hand out.
oh no
I live in the NW side. I love Portland.
Any suggestions on a place to live other than the PEARL? The taxes and HOA are incredible. I’m retired so walk ability and access to things to do?
Maybe Lloyd center area? Lots of shops around Broadway. You still have light rail and downtown is very close. I also like sellwood.
I'm glad to see the downtown area recovering from the mess it was in a few years ago, but if I ever moved back, I think I would return to the Couve, also known as Vancouver, USA. The new waterfront there is beautiful, and it's only 9 miles from downtown if you want the big city experience from time to time.
Downtown west of Broadway is full steam ahead. Its turning into Pearl 2.0. East of Broadway and north of the mall needs some help. Inner east side is Pearl 3.0. I live close in and there is development everywhere.
Wife and I had a condo downtown for a few years. Sold it four years ago. Really enjoyed the theatre, dinning and shopping. Some of our best memories. Foot traffic in your video seems sparse. Early morning on a Sunday?
@@quiltroadies1695 about 9:30am on a Thursday
Old town has NEVER looked better
😂 yeah smells putrid
I love Portland it is very beautiful.
Can someone report on the condition of the light rail system?
I rode it once about a year and a half to two years ago and there was no way I was going to take my kids on the train, luckily that time was solo. I rode the train with my kids downtown about two months ago and it was way different than that last experience. There was a presence of security guards.
It's quite nice for me, the newer trains are very nice
Moving there in May
@16:15 you need to turn left go that way that is where the real action is. Don't be a wimp just do it. I do it all the time cause I'm a delivery driver so I know that area real good. China town is the heart of the shit lol.
I watched a video of PDX yesterday. DRAMATIC improvement from last trip there 8/23. I live rural to PDX @25 miles. I called it the Pantifapocalyps Wheelerchair Wreck for years. I'm back to PDX. I thought it was permanent disaster hell hole. Not so 😊
What he is not telling you is all those buildings are empty! Businesses are gone they are moving out in droves. He also failed to show the boarded up buildings that make up the portland area.
@@guywhatley3219 a lot of boarded up buildings were shown throughout and it was mentioned that Portland has the highest commercial vacancy rate of any major city in the county.
@@guywhatley3219 too many hand-wringing white liberals run the city. Just like Seattle. Remember “Chaz” ? Downfall of western society
I’m literally here now visiting. I do not feel safe at all. Saw things that scared me and I did not want to walk around after dark
The incoming mayor Keith Wilson will change that perception many people have about Portland. outgoing mayor Ted Wheeler did his best, in my opinion.
And the open drug use was scary, disgusting and dangerous. We literally saw two people shooting up. In a busy street off Alder Street near all the “nice” hotels etc.
Sorry to hear that. Oregon decriminalized hard drugs in 2020, along with directing cannabis tax revenue to treatment. We recriminalized it last spring but kept the treatment aspect of the bill. Police are doing some serious arresting now, and it’ll turn around soon I think.
You missed the fact that downtown Portland has the highest commercial vacancy rate in the entire country - that's how many businesses moved out. Worse than Detroit. Worse than Atlanta or anywhere in Texas. REI moved out. Target left the city. Walmart left. Portland Clinic announced they're moving out this week. Notice there is no foot traffic? Notice how empty it is mid-day? Portland population has been declining for 3 straight years and on track for a 4th - making it the 6th fastest shrinking major city in the country. Add to that the highest tax rate on anyone outside of New York millionaires - and all the middle class are fleeing in 2024. Be sure to check the extra income taxes that you'll be paying for childcare for all 1% of your income, and homeless services 2% of your income - all slated to go up to 2-4% of your income in the next few years.
It was mentioned at 11:17 actually, and important for people to know.
We've talked a lot in videos about Portland's shrinking population and crazy high tax rate (state + local). I was out walking around about 9:30AM on a Thursday, but yeah, downtown is pretty dead.
Not trying to be defensive here, I promise. I just want to make sure people know that we're not trying to be deceptive. We have no incentive to hide something only for someone to find out later that it wasn't true.
And... hot off the press today, Portland's population "increased by a sliver" in from 2023. www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/11/portlands-population-rises-for-first-time-after-three-years-of-declines-portland-state-reports.html?
Portland has quite a few bad areas. This from a frequent visitor and former resident of 47 years. There are so many vacancies downtown. Nobody is shopping or doing much business down there. Pioneer Place is a shadow of its former self.
It’s not doing well since a lot of businesses moved out of Portland want to increase our taxes.
It's definitely "weird" to walk around looking at your phone like that 😁
@@josh44779 the GoPro on a stick makes it more official
Im from Kansas City but ever since I graduated I wonder what it be like to live in Portland
Not good
@turbokid8719 thank you for 👍
I was hoping you'd explain more about where you are in the videos, what you are seeing. You just provided statistics over and over 😅
I see very few people walking the streets in this video. 🤔
@@georgehenderson7783 it’s 9 30 a.m. on a Thursday morning, but, downtown is usually pretty dead. There are a couple of places adjacent to downtown, like Northwest District and the Pearl District, that you would expect to see more people out and about any time of day. Hope that helps.
Why the City is empty and many shops are closed....
@@zanzillahsaruji9966 it was Thursday morning around 9:30AM
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16:26
Yep... ran up on me and smashed a plastic bottle on the ground and then started shouting. Startled me a bit.
@@livinginoregon I'm glad you left that in the video, and I'm happy you're okay.
I live downtown. It is always dead. There's not much left but Nordstrom and Zara and H and M. Saw Chase bank by Pioneer Square is closing. Appears Ecru, stationery store, closed. Fed Ex on SW 5th just closed. We are promised downtown will get better but it doesn't. Did the city employees ever come back to work downtown?
Hmm so many stores are still boarded up.
This was two days after the election. Many businesses/buildings were boarded up in anticipation of some unrest. This was partly why I started the video at the primary riot congregation area from 2020... to show that there as nothing, literally nothing, going on.
I live in the metro and I know and feeel it’s doing horrendous
I can't get that close to Thai Peacock and not eat there.
People are always skew negative. That is why they elected Donald Trump.
1st two minutes of your video you choose to walk thru the GOVERNMENT owned part of downtown. The whole South side of 1st along the river are buildings owned or leased by government agencies. Your low key plaid shirt fools no one!
@@crusader_2028 wait…what?
DO NOT talk to people about downtown pdx that do not live there. Watch the media and you will die if you go down here. Having lived down there.. zero difference from any other downtown area. The culture.. food.. and people watching.. second to none! As a far right voter - I love PDX!!
Yea, I have to see stuff for myself. People be talking out their ass and all they do is go by what the media told them.
@@nomaderic Exactly.. walk around 90% of downtown portland and its super nice.. the food is insane!
I too am more right im sick of oakland ca liberal worldview is it not actually that bad there? Thanks for your comment crazy communists annoy me...
@@StreetFighter23 Coming from deep red state... doesnt bother me at all.. I see purple hair I dont look in their direction lol. They mostly leave you alone!
DO NOT MOVE HERE ITS EXPENSIVE AND DANGEROUS
Any city have tens belong "blue " . Prove me wrong
I live in Portland proper. From a much larger city. Look at your video and you’ll notice you are downtown and it is DEAD. Zero urban hustle and bustle city life. Easily the most vacant down town area in America or anywhere I’ve been to overseas. That is a big problem.
Imagine if you’re a tourist and visiting our city and you go down town and you notice the boarded up windows and zero people out shopping, eating, drinking etc. It doesn’t bode well for the outlook of PDX. This city is a dud sadly. Sure it’s less grimey than it was a couple years ago but now it’s just a ghost town and the only people down there are either a) Portland weird blue hairs or b) homeless or c) people that grew up here and never left for substantial time of their lives
The downtown core is for sure dead, and one of the goals of this video was to illustrate that. Portland has more commercial vacancies than any other large city in the country.
If you're a tourist, you probably would not go downtown, or at least wouldn't spend much time there. Even walking around the Pearl District just blocks away is a totally difference experience with people out and about at shops and restaurants. Most people tend to gravitate more toward the neighborhood areas of Portland than the city center. This isn't all too different from other cities around the country... LA even, for example. There is plenty to get out and see, taste, etc. if you're a tourist.
You lost me at the generalization of only three categories of people. Surely there are folks with other colors of hair dye than just blue.
@ outside of LA most downtowns were/and or are currently bustling during the day and have a lot of tourists. I recall 20 years ago when I first was visiting Portland there would be people hanging out all over downtown and even china town. Pearl district is just such a small area and most of the hotels are downtown hence why tourists might want to explore that area as you would in any other city in America (Chicago, New York, SF up until recently, Miami, etc etc). I understand that the downtown is never going to be the super cool place to be but it shouldn’t be deserted 7 days a week as you point out.
My biggest problem I have with Portland is that even the “cool” areas are dead. I live on Williams Ave blocks away from all of the restaurants, blocks from Mississippi, hang out all over this city. People here just don’t leave their homes and socialize nearly as much as other cities here in America and far less than overseas for that matter. It’s just a city of antisocial personalities. I don’t know if you’ve moved around a lot as an adult and I don’t expect you to. But this city has been a repellent to interesting urban types and has been a lightening rod for weirdos that are more content sitting inside with a cat on their lap. It’s sad as Portland could be and has been so much better
Good video, though I'd have spent less time talking about people's "perceptions", more time on ACTUAL crime data (or other relevant stats). Social media is toxic clickbait for the gullible.
Left 2 years ago. All I can remember is going downtown to the Apple Store that was completely fenced in with a huge galvanized fence to keep trouble out. Also the Louis Vuitton store that had all the windows smashed in for a mass theft. Homeless tents everywhere. Glad to hear they are Finally cracking down on crime and drugs. We were there for eleven years- sorry, won’t be coming back unless it goes Red- too many liberals caused all the chaos. Aloha
Homelessness (drug use/ mental health), and diversity of thought (especially politically). Are the 2 biggest problems in Portland.
Really? Cause they just elected a police officer to their city council. I'm sure that's as diverse as it gets for Portland.
Everything in the country will deteriorate quickly for at least the next four years.
Just the opposite. Are you kidding. 😅😅😅😅 it's the dems that destroy.
@@GUITARTIME2024 You're extremely confused.
@stevencarter385 no, you are. 1. Open border will be dealt with. 2. No wars will be started (but 2 will likely end). 3. Democrats have a great chance to recalibrate their leftist platform.
LOL. Go back to sleep fool.
I believe you are correct! I have lived accross the country in various cities ranging from huge cities with certain political leanings to small towns with other political leanings and the common denomonator is that these problems aren't just in one place.
These problems are truly in every location I have lived in, to varying degrees respectively. And realizing that has been difficult for me to accept, because that means this is structural, systemic, institutional, massive, just massive problems. Finger pointing is not fixing these monstrous issues that are systemically affecting every single one of us.
To face my own biases and "grass is greener on the other side" mentality has opened my eyes, but it is still a very harsh truth to have to accept. I fear the longer we as a country refuse to see this, the harder life will continue to be.
And yes, the new orange man regime will only amplify the aforementioned problems at a break-neck pace
Biggest mistake people make about talking about a city, state, place is making it about themselves. STOP videoing yourself! This should be about Portland, not YOU.
@ thanks for watching 🙏