I travel west coast for work past few years. SD to Seattle. GF in Minnesota and her fams in Wi and went over there. Portland by far the worst out of anywhere with close tie of runner ups Seattle and SF, then LA is not too far off from there. The tent cities have been a thing in a lot of these cities, but it is by far the worst in Portland.
FYI those aren't tents, they are "tiny homes" and their very in vogue atm. the man checking doors was the neighborhood watch, who would lock your door if you forgot. The boarded up storefronts is to showcase our state and regionally produced lumber as there's tons of pride in the timber industry. The city has so much food surplus they even leave out free apple juice on the streets for everyone to enjoy.
@@blakek1043 Nothing screams a “needed difference” like armed thugs and moronic college students playing revolutionary. Let’s not forget the people injured and killed in that little experiment. It’s time to grow up.
Seriously though... I live here in pdx. Yea there's a lot of what you see in this video but there's 100x more beauty in the parks, trails, rivers, etc. These shit on pdx videos are low-hanging fruit.
I have lived in Portland almost my entire life and it’s not so bad, if you step back from downtown you will see amazing little neighborhoods with the sweetest people, adorable shops and the best Saturday market ever!
It's not so bad until you leave and you notice how being in a shitty environment influenced you into taking lower standards for what a civilisation should look like
@@tomw.4255 I think more often than not in big cities the “Downtown Area” is really just the center for each major district to intersect. Business, Medical, Legal, Retail, etc… They’re densely populated but aren’t necessarily the true _”hearts”_ of the city. Just the geographical centers. I say this because I agree with your entire comment except for “downtowns being main parts of most major cities”. Not when you’re looking for the actual culture. Downtowns are really just metropolitan hubs.
It literally was until like 3 or 4 years ago. The mayor LITERALLY cheered as the dumpster fires were set ablaze in the 2020 riots... and the governor folded her hands and watched... as an Oregonian born & raised, Portland went from a proud destination for shopping & culture to a wasteland of feces so fast, we all got whiplash.
It still is, if you’re able to look beyond the rough edges. I challenge you to show me a city with more natural beauty than Portland. Especially in the spring. 😊
It still is. Downtown isn’t really where you want to be for that anyway, most of the parks and neighborhoods renowned for their beauty are in the inner southeast and the southwest.
That was before democrats stole the election and put a 6’5 man in the woman’s Olympics,…and not to be shadowed by the girl in the Speedo topless in the woman’s swim competition.
Seattle: A second rate San Francisco wannabe that as I recall, allowed a bunch Marxist clowns take over an entire section of the city where the rate of violent crime sky rocketed. 🤷♂️
Seattle & Portland are like the latex gloves that you can put on either hand, so the left is the same as the right is the same as the left. It's really bad here in Seattle too
And don’t buy anything, someone will just take it from you at gunpoint on your way out the door. Not to mention you can just run in with your friends and take everything off the shelves for free and the police will stand down
it’s because you visited Portland, some states downtowns are like that. As a person who lives in Oregon (but isn’t from there) I recommend: Bethany, Beaverton, Aloha, Cedar Mill, Astoria, Oregon City, Beach Cities, Eugene and some places in Salem.
I was working in Portland a couple years ago, a guy tried my door handle while I was sitting in my car in a parking garage. I also saw a homeless guy fighting his own reflection in a window.
Trying door handles in blue cities is a very lucrative business. I was visiting family in the bay area and left my truck unlocked once and was robbed. Meanwhile my neighbor in San Diego left his truck full of tools unlocked every day for 15 years and never had anything stolen
It’s honestly not that bad. Has lower crime per capita then most other major cities. Besides a few secluded areas , it’s a beautiful city. People just realize they get attention from conservatives when they shit on Portland. I visit all the time and it’s tucking beautiful.
I was also thinking of moving there... Going to have to talk to whoever is in charge and make a better plan or not move there. Since I am a broke college student there is a high likelihood that I will not move there. I can't afford for stuff to be stolen.
If you're a little bish you won't be able to handle it anywhere. This dude is exaggerating. This area is right by the highway and yes, is a shitty area, but he's fucking lying about most of it.
This makes me so sad. I was born in Portland and grew up in Lapine, Redmond, and Bend. This breaks my heart because I love Portland to pieces and seeing it like this feels like my house burnt down.
Honestly I'd move. The US is so vast, and such an interesting country. You have some of the most beautiful places in the world. Why the hell would someone be born, live and die in a shithole like Portland when you have a choice not too.
As a general rule: Southern Californians absolutely Fing destroyed Portland. Their dirty, rude, selfish. Secondly most of the homeless are uneducated people from the Southeast US! Get a buzz ticket and massive government handouts especially for the druggie/criminal elements. Well done!!!
To be honest he’s showing the worst of the worst. Yes, we have problems, but it’s definitely not a third world country. I’ve never seen anyone checking car doors and really most of the crime and homelessness is in certain areas of downtown. It’s not actually that bad.
@@Name-ck9pv On the contrary, I live in a place with homeless tents on the street in front of my house. A few months ago, someone shot a bullet right outside my front yard. But it isn't as bad as he makes it seem.
@@carsonskiing😂 "I have homeless tents on my block and I got a Bullet shot through my window the other day but it's really not as bad as this you tuber makes it seem."😂😂 Dude you are the absolute embodiment of a Portlander - so clueless 😂 😂 When/ If you finally wake up you're gonna scratch your head and wonder why things are so bad and keep doing the same damn things and voting the same damn way smh
I was just in Portland last summer for about 15 days, and this was not at all my experience of the city. I traveled all around on public transportation and visited several of the public parks and college campuses, plus some breweries and wine shops in downtown. I never saw anything like this. Not saying it's not there, but I never encountered anything like this during my visit. My experience was really pleasant. I found Portland to be very charming and safe, if somewhat expensive.
I mean... all the crazy people (and crazy doctors) gotta go somewhere since those creepy asylums from the 1800's got shut down, and I guess that somewhere was Portland for quite a few of them.
Raised in the residential areas on the east side of the river. This city is a wasteland. I’m thankful to be raised in the towns adjacent and not the downtown. The closer you get to the main city, the worse it gets. Homeless, tent cities, criminals evading police at night dressed in black, trash everywhere, graffiti, businesses boarded up, prostitutes right next to a high school, the list could go on.
There is still hope for Portland! The problem with these videos is that they only show the bad! There is still a bit of good! Especially in the outskirts! The hellscape is really only in the downtown area and the east side industrial area!
Portland's allowance of such blatant lawlessness is a testimonial to their idiocy. Further the dream that was America overall is lost. When a political party is allowed to literally steal an election with video of it happening and is allowed and even defended by the just as corrupt media that system is no longer seen as viable. MANY Americans no long have ANY faith in our election system and are reasonable to reac this conclusion. The future election will consistantly have the fewest number of voters in history by percentage. Sooner or later those who feel disenfranchised will rise up which is their duty. Because in the comming years ALLA American cities will be like Portland and deservedly so.
This is my home town it used to be beautiful now I’m ashamed of it. I’m so glad you’re posting the truth about it because the representatives are freaking jokes
Same here. I was born there and spent the first part of my childhood living there, and then moved a couple hours away but still visited friends and shopped there often until I was grown. I now can’t even stand driving through, it’s just SO SAD and disappointing to see how much it’s gone downhill. 💔
@@MichaelJames-lz7ni personally, I left there in 2007, so the current government in that area was outside my choice. Regarding POTUS, that DEFINITELY wasn’t my vote 😅😅
I've felt like we are stuck in that darkest timeline since about 2015...I am starting to wonder if our current year situation would be better if the libyaians just Killed doc & Marty. 😂😁😏
It’s not that bad! People get a very limited perspective of the city, mostly from news sources like fox news. It’s not even that bad where you are and even still it doesn’t get much worse. You get out of downtown and find a more peaceful area and it’s beautiful. It could be better, def needs work. It’s like people can’t handle even a bit of grime on their hands nowadays. However, I think that the homeless people living there really need help. That’s another issue. I just say instead of saying letting them be there makes it a third world country, instead we should give them a home.
It's a mixture of things, but multiculturalism has failed big time. It does not work. It separates people in a horrible way. There's no understanding, so hatred builds.
Guess you weren't here in the 80s or 90s. I mean, shit it was early 2000s when we STOPPED having sewage overflows into the river every time it rained. Portland is worse than before, but only after improving dramatically. Portland was a grungy crustpunk town until it became the sanitized corporate version of itself.
All facts. I live 20 mins from portland and used to do all my shopping there. Now I drive 30 minutes in the other direction to do my shopping and avoid going to Portland at all costs.
@@susanmcallister4912 I don't think the problem is because of too many "blacks" as you stated in your comment. If you recall when all the "violence from white cops against black people" started making headlines in the news and BLM started to "peacefully protest"..…Portland was one of the cities they chose to protest in. I guess the city has not yet recovered from all the "peaceful protest".
Yes, our new corporate American values have reduced our communities to this...families are suffering...but on the up side the rich keep getting richer..
@@suzyjohnson2974 As someone just outside of Seattle who goes their for work quite often, Portland is worse. I go there for work also. In Portland homeless people will be screaming/throwing piss bottles at people eating outside of restaurants. We don't get that in Seattle.
@@iliketohike Homeless in Seattle are better educated then the ones in Portland Please don't give ideas to our government officials because then they will throw other tax o top of tax for education to the poor homeless
Philly got you beat! Last week a homeless man set-up a tent in the middle of my living room. I was pissed. but he's letting us use his wifi and netflix account so we're cool now.
LMFAO!!! UR TOO FUNNY! In Philly I wouldn't be surprised if the homeless have Wi-Fi and Netflix while the hardworking people struggle to make ends meet.
hey man, I am a foreigner who visited this city last year just for three days. Man, I didn't know American cities could be this messed up!! I almost got robbed by a guy who kept following me and saying "can we be friends?" while I was on my way to a hotel. I ended up giving him 5 dollars because I was afraid of getting into a fight with that guy. This city was for sure the most shithole among all cities I've visited around the world
Nah. Not “Even the people who aren’t on heroin look like they are on heroin.” Not “Even the people who aren’t on heroin look like they are on heroin”. /
Funny thing when I was on heroin I had to deal with law enforcement frequently due to my job. No cop could tell because most drug addicts have jobs and you cant tell if they are high.
@@thumper84 now there giving out “harm reduction kits” with everything you need to smoke meth/ do herion 😂😂 what has the world come too? since when does america encourage drug use, oh right, since Sleepy Joe. btw, Oregon is a blue democrat tan state. ironic
They had to, The 2.3 million they got for the bird sanctuary was divided up amongst the people that voted for the sanctuary to begin with and to pay for their mansions and yachts
@@derpyllama1857 go slap yourself in the face this comment isn’t the place for serious responses. It was a joke post with a even funnier response by Robert. Stop taking life se serious you might enjoy your days more.
My wife and I went when looking for a different city to move to and within a few hours decided it wasn’t the place for us in part because of this. Within the first few hours we saw this and met with a real estate agent who went more in depth on the issues and we were sold on moving to any where but Portland
@@wicked-smaht im not worried about it directly, but as a drifter theres too many sideshow clowns and people flexing their stock mustangs every chance they get. Now cops target every car with a loud exhaust just trying to go to work. Be a little more subtle and pick better spots. Stop being car enthusiasts for the clout.
@@kevingilbert4635 Seattle is worse. I've done too much work up there. Had a homeless Trans person stealy coworkers license plate because he was parked to close to their homeless camp in a chase bank parking lot
I've been to a 3rd world country and yes, this is the truth. That feeling of not being safe.. it's not to make fun of poverty, but the issue is absolutely about leadership. My family comes from Colombia and yes, it's corrupt government. When the leaders are smart and wise, they know how to make sure their people are doing well, employeed, cared for, etc. And that habitat is not good enough. It needs to be bigger. You can't just have a tree and be proud of that habitat.
It looks like Haiti...I've been there and this is what it looks like dude!! Is it ever reported on, Heck No! Portland was once a Top 10 tourist destination and now all they attract is filth and vermin. Gee, what's to be embarrassed about? This is the end result of liberal policies gone crazy!!
Since NONE of these polititions live in the area, they will never give a shit. They go home with their 6 figure income, to their fancy homes in the good safe areas, have the best health insurance, schooling, and food that money can buy. They go on live a few times here n there to say a few words of how they'll fix homelessness and then move on. It's a fact!@ and it's designed that way, unfortunately.
Cry more about it on the internet, and not do anything about your bad living situation. If you are complaining about your living situation ON THE INTERNET, then your life isn't that bad.
@@Moon_Presence Bruh, he isn't complaining about where he lives... he is saying that where he lives is better than Portland, thus it is "insulting comparing us with this city"
I lived there in 1998 thru 2002 and it was an incredibly safe and beautiful city. The citizens said they knew it would be ruined due to the messed up leadership.
When I was younger I couldn't wait to move to Portland, I lived in Canada and the UK so I couldn't wait to see the beautiful scenery there.....I left after 3 months.
Lmao I felt this way about nyc I lived there for 9 months I cried the whole time. My skin broke out worse than it ever had in my life! I was so happy to be gone now I live 30 mins north of nyc and have no gone back!!!
I mean it looks nice, tents save up on rent. People are friendly, that guy is checking on car doorhinge safety, the garbage on the street is obviously to feed homeless pets and less shops open means less work load. Absolutely Love it !
I was told to buy "Voodoo Doughnuts" in Old Downtown Portland. The streets nearby were filled with homeless tents and smelled of sewage. The line to buy VD doughnuts was two blocks long, but I had pre-ordered so they were ready. As I was walking towards my car, a skanky 90 lb dreadlock guy with scabs everywhere approaches. "Give me some doughnuts.". I said "no". Then there were three of them screaming, swearing, and threatening me. I was sure the CNN headlines were going in one of two directions. "A 300 lb white man was killed trying to protect his doughnuts from poor Portland homeless people." Or "A 300 lb white man beat 3 poor homeless people unconscious over 3 dozen doughnuts."
@@jimwalker1242 Have you've been assaulted by a group? Nope. You throw objects to deter attention. Gives a person time to run for safety. Typically Wokie response
@@noxirs7059 I would throw my shoes, my keys, my wallet! But, God forbid.. I couldn't throw doughnuts? (And I'm about as anti-woke as a person can get.)
just 5 years ago, when I moved out after living there for a decade, it was really nice. Downtown got progressively more sketchy towards the end, but it was nothing like it is now
@@katherenewedic8076 eh. that’s certainly relative. but compared to every big (or even medium sized) city I’ve ever lived in, it was Mayberry before it started trending towards third world status
@@trina7274 you sound like you come from Oregon. Other cities this size aren’t like this. I’ve love everywhere (military) PDX was walkable anywhere for me as a 5’4” woman any time. Even by the River. It was safe. May not next to La Grande. Lol but it is a shit show now.
Not one hour ago, while walking in downtown Portland, some random guy tried elbowing me in the face, then laughed at me, and said "it's a dangerous world. You always gotta stay prepared". Luckily, I was able to evade the guy, unharmed.
@@wplants9793 Yeah... Funny, isn't it? Maybe the crime is lower because the police were defunded? It isn't being documented as well, if they aren't responding to anything but violent crimes, and not keeping up with that? Numbers are like people, torture them enough and they tell you anything you want to hear.
I lived there from 2013-2016. Got out right before the riots. I’m not left wing, but it was a beautiful city. They’ve always had a homeless problem but never this bad.
Who would've thought legalizing drugs and not prosecuting criminals would've turned out like this? The cost of living is high there too but Portland's problems were self inflicted due to stupidity.
I live in Oregon, about 2 hours away from Portland, and I can tell you that that city is it's own... thing. 100%, the rest of Oregon does not claim Portland as part of it.
@@blockrock44 geez, I’m here 10 years and hear it all the time from hubby’s fam from Eastern and Southern OR. Unfortunately, city psychopaths have the population to tilt all votes. It’s a weird situation to be sure. Sad and tough to take for the pink to purple rest of the state! I’m in Beaverton and…. Tapping foot till hubby retires and we can blow this joint!
@@SerangelROM Everywhere has its faults. I wouldn’t recommend visiting remote aboriginal communities in Australia. It’s not your fault people are the way they are. I met many pleasant and interesting Americans.
@@ADogNamedStay Lol yeah that’s true. Just trying to make the closest comparison I could. More people were murdered in east Baltimore last year than in the whole of Australia (235). It’s a bit of a culture shock to read about 26 dead and 60 non fatal shootings in one month in just part of one mid sized US city.
As an American, I was appalled & saddened by Australia’s reaction, using law enforcement to throw maskless citizens in jail. And nothing you all can do because only a very select few can own a firearm. That’s so sad!! You all get used by the Australian government
@@rookere1604 We also have the highest rates of obesity, poorest health, both mentally and physically, and highest incarceration rate for a first world-nation. But we also have the best boom boom weapons so there’s that 💁♀️
Hi there, I'm Bryan, a social justice warrior. I believe that this shows Oregon's acceptance of the money impaired. They have always been an inclusive state that cares about people. Well, I have to go now. I got me a new road bike. I ride it around because I care. Also, it's a great way to stay in shape. 💪
Up till 2010 Portland had no trash on the streets, no graffiti, it was beautiful and the only city I liked period. Now, I wouldn’t care if it existed. It’s really sad.
You could try the conservative approach in Tennessee, and just outlaw homelessness. I'm sure charging them fines, or forcing them to do community service for zero pay will solve the problem.
I live in Portland and it’s literally like this everywhere if I walk out my front door rn it looks just like this rewind 10 years or so it was an amazing place and nothing like it is now it’s gotten very bad
Lived in Portland in the 70s and early 80s. Wasn't good but wasn't real bad. Now, there is not enough money printed to make me want to even visit this disgrace to humanity.
In my humble 3rd world country, we don’t see people casually checking car doors. They would end up in a hospital when bystanders kick their a$$. Here in the US, thieves and robbers are your govt’s friend and allies.
It literally was a beautiful place until like 3 or 4 years ago. The mayor LITERALLY cheered as the dumpster fires were set ablaze in the 2020 riots... and the governor folded her hands and watched... as an Oregonian born & raised, Portland went from a proud destination for shopping & culture to a wasteland of feces so fast, we all got whiplash.
I lived there in 85' for ten yrs and it was really a cool city, Saturday Market down on Burnside and music. These shit for politicians should be kicked the hell out.
Won't do any good while the people living there just vote in more. They don't care if they city is destroyed as long as they get all the government hand outs they want and aren't held responsible for their actions.
@@jayhuff8988 I Feel like an Ahole for laughing... But having been on the streets for a couple years I can verify that we do have different "social class" and having a rusty shoping cart or having a New target cart makes a difference haha
This is literally what it's like though. It's this weird thing they do here where they virtue signal that they love the homeless while doing nothing to ameliorate their suffering.
The mental health system in Oregon is barbaric! Most of the homeless are either mentally ill folks not getting treatment, or drug addicts. Multnomah County has shut down nearly all support programs, and hospitals have huge shortages of beds available for people experiencing episodes. It’s completely heartbreaking. Gov. Brown, and all city and county leaders have completely let the people down. I honestly don’t know how they can look in the mirror or sleep at night. It’s a travesty.
@@lucindabrown4036 Mentally ill people on the margins of society have always existed. The urban growth boundary, lack of housing development, and inflood of tech workers haven't always existed in Portland. Cheap housing means fewer human beings living outside, even if they decide to take drugs or are mentally ill.
@@lucindabrown4036 not just Oregon. It’s America. They couldn’t care less about our mentally ill and it’s awful to see loved ones with kids that are schizophrenic thrown on the streets with nothing after being put in jail because people don’t want to see mentally ill people. It’s the ‘injustice’ system because they often arrest and oppress people they just don’t like.
