Rumor What's going on in Portland?

I had my dog, my bike, my fishing pole, my friends and my swim trunks. What more could a little boy ask for. I guess I could have asked for my father who divorced my mother when I was 9. I really missed my father. My mother married a rotten man when I was 11 which lasted a turbulent two years. He moved us from Oswego to Portland which made me cry for weeks.

 

I guess Portland and it's suburbs isn't so bad after all.

 

Amazing how incredibly misunderstood these “events” are. And how people have forgotten how it was before the Big Pipe. That sucker has been worth every penny of the 2 billion plus that was spent on it. But every time there is an overflow people lose their minds. Total non story…..

 

Actually cool history. Our water works are world class. Have only had one lunch meeting downtown in the last two years. Afuri Ramen, opened their first US location here because "the unique geography of Mt Hood and the Portland ecosystem produce water virtually identical to that used in Japan."

 

90 homicides in Portland: 2021 closed with one of the most deadly months in a record year

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...-the-most-deadly-months-in-a-record-year.html

 

But hey don't worry about it! Home prices are staying steady!

 

The solutions are housing the homeless and getting the police to do their jobs.
Followed by refocusing our judicial system to be less focused on restitution and more focused on education and healing.

 

Those are not easy solutions to implement.

 

Understood. However, they are least difficult, most moral, most efficient and most effective solutions.
There is no other realistic way to solve the problem, aside from just throwing people in jail for not having a home. And courts have currently ruled that as illegal.

 

Steady?

 

Steadily increasing?

 

Despite the seeming political stigmas, etc., folks still love moving to Portland. In fact, it was one of the highest moved-to cities in 2021.

 

are people starting to move based on political divisions?
Kinda feels like it.

 

Peoples....get ready!

 

https://www.kgw.com/amp/article/mon...ease/283-a1797e6b-2938-4de4-b551-35cb8eff21a2

Edited for @Lanny ’s request.

this link is an article on Portland having the highest or one of the highest cost of living increases in the nation.
Im assuming home values have alot to do with it. Pretty sure mortgages and rent is a part of cost of living.
So when people talk about thier home value going up, it screws everyone not owning a home.
This is where i tend to agree with @dviss1.
Land ownership is a major part of our separation of rich and poor. Land shouldn't be owned.
Have no clue how to change things, but its no doubt many of the rich made their money off of land aNd real estate back in the day.
Anyhow i hope that those who boast of increasing values of their homes understand that it is costing the poor more, because of it. Their cost of living also goes up, but with no ownership of land to help offset by having an asset.
Edited again per @e_blazer request. I squishes my one sentence paragraphs together for you.

 

Sunrise this morning. Somebody posted on Facebook

 

Thief!

 

It's true!

 

Nice view.