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Portland from the early-00's to mid-10's was peak modern urban America
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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:22 PM Author: Gaped unholy base relatively safe and relatively affordable while having lots of local businesses and walkable districts/boulevards/parks. the homeless crisis started chipping away at the city's charm quite a bit by 2016 (the decision to allow public 'camping'), and by the covid era, it was a shitshow.
i do wonder if it was simply too nice (and white) and therefore had to be humbled and ruined by the system to prevent it from becoming a potential urban model for other places. |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 8:45 AM Author: White pocket flask Dude, Portland was ruined by white people.
Whitest city in America elects (shocker) left wing progressive politicians --> progressive policies --> homeless crisis --> antifa riots --> decline of city. Meanwhile the white voters keep voting in the white progressive left wing mayor and councilmen and governor.
Hate to break this to you but the wokest, leftiest, most progressive people are white. |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: Carmine vigorous center True every hicklib theater kid from flyover moved there to be a super progressive poor fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651609) |
Date: February 5th, 2026 11:22 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650125) |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:23 PM Author: bonkers tattoo coffee pot it's complete shit now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650126) |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:57 PM Author: stirring ladyboy cruise ship i visited a few times during the period and agree, it was great (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650175) |
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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:58 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650177) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 12:00 AM Author: Floppy Hospital Knife (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650188) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 12:05 AM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650203) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 12:14 AM Author: shaky charcoal deer antler One of if not the best light rail and city block infrastructures ever made
I would live in a powells bookstore if I could |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 12:14 AM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650228) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:00 AM Author: Gaped unholy base it felt in certain ways like a friendlier, scaled-down version of 'the big city.' the city blocks are physically smaller than many other places. they limited their size way back in the 1800's to create more corner stores and lots per acre than would be possible with larger blocks.
there were a few light rail lines and a dainty little 'streetcar' that slinked around downtown. but there were hills and parks nearby (forest park, mt. tabor, etc.) and urban trails just for walkers and cyclists like the springwater corridor (which still exists, but is full of bums).
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:50 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651362) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 4:43 AM Author: deep lay Powell's was heart of Portland. Portland was the friendliest city. The architecture of the city was friendly and inviting to pedestrians. constantly bubbling water fountains, places to sit and enjoy the day, vibrant life and constant improvement. Not SF or SeaTTTle, but a great American city rising in the west.
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:50 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651360) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:25 AM Author: Floppy Hospital Knife It also didn’t have huge ethnic sections that are effectively of no use to you (eg, the entire southwestern ~third of SF) or dangerous and with nothing to offer (big chunks of NYC, DC, LA). Nearly every neighborhood in the city had something—you didn’t have to limit yourself to the handful of cool ones, especially if you lived there.
I haven’t been back in >10 years, but really liked it the couple of times before then. So close to Mt. Hood, the Columbia River gorge and waterfalls, and the best wine region in the US, too. |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:49 AM Author: Carmine vigorous center it still had some rough parts, east side was pretty crazy with meth back then
Restaurant scene was really incredible for a few years and completely died out cause there never were enough good paying jobs there and poor hicklibs kept moving in from elsewhere. I think it made everyone jaded. |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 5:15 AM Author: shaky charcoal deer antler really glad i never bought that land near camby
tf was that about |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 6:30 AM Author: idiotic police squad I dated a girl from Portland and I couldn't believe it was real from her descriptions. But it turned out that it was. It was like a city whose central industry was being a hipster carnival (in the 2000s). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650343) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:37 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651305) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 7:17 AM Author: shaky charcoal deer antler Distinctly remember 1800000 food trucks by city hall area
Also some decent chicks near pearl |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 7:51 AM Author: Dashing Jade Library "omg the food!" -soy face hicklib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650381) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 8:46 AM Author: White pocket flask Went there a few times back in those days. Always enjoyed it. The neighborhoods up in the heights were amazing. Probably the prettiest neighborhoods in America. Same time never quite figured out the Portland economy. Jut glanced at the local real estate. Housing is cheap by CA standards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650454) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:38 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651311) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 8:55 AM Author: fighting rigpig Only went there one time, was when I was dating my wife in 2015. It was generally nice but the homeless issue was already a pretty big nuisance compared to NYC where we lived at the time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650472) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 10:04 AM Author: Azure ape It was too beautiful to live (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49650631) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:37 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651307) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 1:10 PM Author: pearl stimulating heaven I grew up in Portland during that time. The housing bubble changed Portland and made it far gayer. All of the livability the city cultivated back into the 80s with the first growth management act had very positive impacts for families. I remember in the 90s in grade school my mom gave me a $100 to take the bus to the mall downtown and go school shopping. I don't think 12 year olds do that now.
With the housing appreciation during the run up to the 2008 bubble most of the families in the newly desirable neighborhoods cashed out. Dinks and outsiders with an idea of what Portland was moved in and dramatically changed the character of the city and really the state. It concentrated fogginess. People forgot but Oregon used to have two moderate GOP senators. |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:38 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651309) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 1:13 PM Author: Lavender Internal Respiration Shrine It was a combination of the end of ZIRP and the Sacklers spreading poison into our communities. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651031) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:44 PM Author: aromatic useless nibblets The Dandy Warhols were already singing about how "bohemian" Portland was in 2000, it must have been that way much earlier than that.
My question is: how did it go from the service capital of a logging economy to a proto-hipster paradise? How did that culture develop and what the fuck was it exporting after its resource economy started declining?
San Francisco going from alt and gay to expensive and gentrified as shit makes sense, as does Brooklyn, and later every larger city had its own hipster enclave populated by the declasse children of boomers. Austin was the one lib/left/artsy place in Texas on account of UT and being the capital. What's the explanation for Portland? Once it started you can easily explain the trajectory based on ideology. |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651356) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:50 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag I appreciate this poast-moniker synergy FWIW (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651358) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:52 PM Author: aromatic useless nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651370) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:53 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651371) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: pearl stimulating heaven PNW always a bit more out there and kind of forgotten about. It had the lowest rate of religiosity in the country. When it was a logging town the ratio was like 8:1. But at the end of the day it wasn't some shitlib haven. The big change happened during the housing bubble when regular families left the city. All of them were replaced with transplants that moved specifically to be MORE progressive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651503) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651509) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: White pocket flask There were GOP senators and governors in the PNW into the 1990s.
We all watched the unfolding of the phenomena of overeducated liberal white people flocking to the PNW for high quality outdoor lifestyles balanced with get it done work mentality and free from the institutional and cultural snobberies of the east. As they trended more liberal, flocks of overeducated but stupid young progressives followed and eventually dominated, flipping WA and OR from lean Red to purplish to permanently deep blue. And bringing with them their love for ANTIFA and homeless drug addicts and SJW policies. |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651623) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:57 PM Author: Carmine vigorous center Al Gore only won oregon by like 6000 votes and it was already vote by mail so easily lots of lib fraud (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651635) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:56 PM Author: Carmine vigorous center You could rent a big craftsman house like this https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3906-S-Kelly-Ave-Portland-OR-97239/248439127_zpid/ for like $400 a month and there were no blacks. Everyone was poor and gen x but everything was cheap af too. It all changed due to globalism. All those poor gen xers started working for NGOs dealing with the homeless and it turned out to be quite lucrative for them and it attracted endless druggy bums (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651632) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:57 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag The modern world is 180 (tp) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651634) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:51 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag Never been to Portland and probably never will but really enjoying this thread in any case, ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651363) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:38 PM Author: Slippery Goal In Life Step-uncle's House I've never been either. But I had a friend who lived there for a few years after college in the early 00s and he couldn't stop singing its praises. He had gone to UW-Madison for undergrad so that's really saying something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651553) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:40 PM Author: Aggressive Telephone Nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2Ã#49651558) |