Zombie Oden Rips City

[Everything Beagle]

The quote from Oden is something we have discussed for decades.

'“It isn’t a great city to live in if you’re a young African American male with a lot of money,” said Oden,

Translation: The nightlife is not as good as a lot of NBA cities. They have all the money in the world and just like most men their age they want to "meet" as many good-looking women as possible. They want the club scene that is available in cities like Miami, LA, Houston, NY, and Atlanta. Not saying Portland has no nightlife, just that for rich young males, it just isn't as good.

In Portland, they are big fish in s small pond, but they of course would prefer to be big fish in a very large pond. And of course, diversity is a big part of the equation. They are stars with a lot of money and are only young once.

Also, and we should be honest, the police had (and deservedly still have) a reputation for being racist dipshits who like to target black people in nice cars, especially the professional athletes who live in the city. 2007 is not very many years after pulling over half the Trail Blazers like they were being hunted for sport. And the denizens are awfully pearl-clutchy about black people who don't code switch. Too much of a fish bowl panopticon thing going on here.

Also the night life kind of sucks if you don't like steak bites.

 

[BlazerWookee]

The quote from Oden is something we have discussed for decades.

'“It isn’t a great city to live in if you’re a young African American male with a lot of money,” said Oden,

Translation: The nightlife is not as good as a lot of NBA cities. They have all the money in the world and just like most men their age they want to "meet" as many good-looking women as possible. They want the club scene that is available in cities like Miami, LA, Houston, NY, and Atlanta. Not saying Portland has no nightlife, just that for rich young males, it just isn't as good.

In Portland, they are big fish in s small pond, but they of course would prefer to be big fish in a very large pond. And of course, diversity is a big part of the equation. They are stars with a lot of money and are only young once.

Also, there's a lot of temptation to make unwise decisions, and a lot of people hanging around trying to make money off of unwise decisions.

 

[julius]

Also, there's a lot of temptation to make unwise decisions, and a lot of people hanging around trying to make money off of unwise decisions.

It's a great city to be rich and famous in if you don't want to take personal responsibility for your choices, too.