Portland has switched from attracting new arrivals to repelling its current citizens,” one news outlet wrote this past week. “In Portland, many liberals are dodging stray bullets, losing catalytic converters to thieves and sidestepping tents. Then they open their tax bills.”
“Everybody hates Portland,” headlined a harsh roundup last year, which quoted a local congressman saying: “Portland is broken.”
These were not from right-wing blogs or national Fox News. The latter was from Oregon Public Broadcasting, with the congressman the city’s own liberal stalwart Rep. Earl Blumenauer.
The other is a cover story this past week in the famed alternative paper there, Willamette Week, titled “They Left: Portland Is Losing Some of Its Biggest Fans.”
The story is about people who are bailing on the city. Portland has now lost population three years in a row. It’s dropped only a little over 1% total, yet that’s enough to rock perceptions because Portland has been on a roll for 30-plus years.
“Yikes ... this is a two or three alarm fire,” a state economist tweeted about the recent news that 17,000 more people had left the state of Oregon in 2022 than moved there. “If 2023 doesn’t rebound, it’s a five alarm fire for the economic outlook.”
OPINION: Portland, ‘repelling its current citizens,’ is Seattle’s cautionary tale
Trouble is the liberal leftist shit-stains are moving to other areas to spread their cancer.
Thing is the liberal leftists left behind won't accept any responsibility and will just double down......It's their nature.
Oh well.
“Everybody hates Portland,” headlined a harsh roundup last year, which quoted a local congressman saying: “Portland is broken.”
These were not from right-wing blogs or national Fox News. The latter was from Oregon Public Broadcasting, with the congressman the city’s own liberal stalwart Rep. Earl Blumenauer.
The other is a cover story this past week in the famed alternative paper there, Willamette Week, titled “They Left: Portland Is Losing Some of Its Biggest Fans.”
The story is about people who are bailing on the city. Portland has now lost population three years in a row. It’s dropped only a little over 1% total, yet that’s enough to rock perceptions because Portland has been on a roll for 30-plus years.
“Yikes ... this is a two or three alarm fire,” a state economist tweeted about the recent news that 17,000 more people had left the state of Oregon in 2022 than moved there. “If 2023 doesn’t rebound, it’s a five alarm fire for the economic outlook.”
OPINION: Portland, ‘repelling its current citizens,’ is Seattle’s cautionary tale
Trouble is the liberal leftist shit-stains are moving to other areas to spread their cancer.
Thing is the liberal leftists left behind won't accept any responsibility and will just double down......It's their nature.
Oh well.
