Lived in Portland for 4.5 years and left in 2021 after covid lockdowns destroyed it. It's a dark place spiritually and literally. Dark and rainy 8 months out of the year. Lot of the east side is very old homes. Driving around some of the main roads can give off a shady older feel. Roads like 82nd Ave and Sandy Blvd felt really shady at times but turning down a street off them you find yourself around some nice houses. Though if you don't have hand me down money, you live in a small old house with no AC or shady apartments. Sometimes I like to say that many in Portland are stuck in the 90s and shop at hot topic. I think the sheer darkness really gets to people there. Then you factor in the drugs. It's the drugs that put people on streets there. I use to say its like a slow motion zombie apocalypse. You'd see some of the most broken people. On top of a government that doesn't give a fuck about picking up trash and making the city nice, only virtue signaling. The homless tent cities are crazy! It's turned into a drug ridden, largest car theft and picking ring, prostitution with shady ass little strip club joints, RV sanctuary trashing everything while you pay a fortune in property tax. Portland is a place that doesn't give off the feeling of hope, but of despair, and the darkness really makes it easy to get depressed and turn to drugs.

Lived in Portland for 4.5 years and left in 2021 after covid lockdowns destroyed it. It's a dark place spiritually and literally. Dark and rainy 8 months out of the year. Lot of the east side is very old homes. Driving around some of the main roads can give off a shady older feel. Roads like 82nd Ave and Sandy Blvd felt really shady at times but turning down a street off them you find yourself around some nice houses. Though if you don't have hand me down money, you live in a small old house with no AC or shady apartments. Sometimes I like to say that many in Portland are stuck in the 90s and shop at hot topic. I think the sheer darkness really gets to people there. Then you factor in the drugs. It's the drugs that put people on streets there. I use to say its like a slow motion zombie apocalypse. You'd see some of the most broken people. On top of a government that doesn't give a fuck about picking up trash and making the city nice. Only virtue signlars. The homless tent cities is crazy! It's turned into a drug ridden, largest car theft and picking ring, prostitution with shady ass little strip club joints, RV sanctuary trashing everything while you pay a fortune in property tax. Portland is a place that doesn't give off the feeling of hope, but of despair, and the darkness really makes it easy to get depressed and turn to drugs.

Lived in Portland for 4.5 years and left in 2021 after covid lockdowns destroyed it. It's a dark place spiritually and literally. Dark and rainy 8 months out of the year. Lot of the east side is very old homes. Driving around some of the main roads can give off a shady older feel. Roads like 82nd Ave and Sandy Blvd felt really shady at times but turning down a street off them you find yourself around some nice houses. Though if you don't have hand me down money, you live in a small old house with no AC or shady apartments. Sometimes I like to say that many in Portland are stuck in the 90s and shop at hot topic. I think the sheer darkness really gets to people there. Then you factor in the drugs. It's the drugs that put people on streets there. I use to say its like a slow motion zombie apocalypse. You'd see some of the most broken people. On top of a government that doesn't give a fuck about picking up trash and making the city nice. It's turned into a drug ridden, largest car theft and picking ring, prostitution with shady ass little strip club joints, RV sanctuary trashing everything while you pay a fortune in property tax. Portland is a place that doesn't give off the feeling of hope, but of despair, and the darkness really makes it easy to get depressed and turn to drugs.