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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650124)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650449)

I would live in a powells bookstore if I could

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650227)

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).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650290)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650336)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650319)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650323)

tf was that about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650339)

Also some decent chicks near pearl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49650355)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49651023)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49651334)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5831598&forum_id=2.#49651604)