Rumor What's going on in Portland?

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Here’s what I’m talking about. Great old house from the 20s in our neighborhood. Hasn’t been updated or remodeled since looks like the 70s…..unfinished basement. Outside needs to be totally done. So basically every aspect of this house needs to be worked on and they want basically 1 million for it FAMS!
Imagine what it would be worth in a nice safe respectable city.

See what I found on #Zillow!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3406-NE-16th-Ave-Portland-OR-97212/53851609_zpid/

dude, the entire valley is on fire, home-sale wise. Just sold our wine country house for double what we paid for it 5.5 years ago. Didn’t put it on the market, talked to an agent that brought us a serious buyer when we weren’t even sure we were gonna sell. Had to move about 0.8 miles from the main street of restaurants out here which kinda sucked, but the amount of money we made AND the amount of bills we’re avoiding by getting out of an old house was simply too much to pass up. Bought at the right time, interest rate-wise. And now we have funds to do the fun projects and things we want to do to our Hawaii house.

 

[MARIS61]

Just walk through Memphis and New Orleans for a bit then get back to me FAMS.

Both are crime-infested and excrement-riddled like Portland, but with better street musicians.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Both are crime-infested and excrement-riddled like Portland, but with better street musicians.

I wouldn’t go to either city for a few days, but Memphis is safe now that HCP is gone. Give NO another day or two though….

 

[SlyPokerCat]

Maris lives in Lapine...... enough said Fams.

 

[Shaboid]

It is horse shit when people say we are a horrible city. We have our problems but so does every City.

Every place has it's good and it's bad. Sure, Portland has great attributes, and believe it or not so does La Pine. Are there problems in both places, yeah.

There is a lot of hate for something just because of a geographic location. Is Memphis a shithole? Sure. But they have some great barbeque.

Let's make another thread about how great the city of Portland is, then merge it with this thread in a couple years. That would probably be a better representation of how bipolar Oregon is.

 

[julius]

Maris lives in Lapine...... enough said Fams.

I think Portland might be too colorful for people in Lapine.

 

[Orion Bailey]

https://www.wweek.com/bars/news-bar...for-covid-19-after-weekend-of-sold-out-shows/

 

[calvin natt]

Not sure if you are able to view this but

oh. My. God. I would die.


https://nextdoor.com/p/LxwzYY5hh-4B?utm_source=share&extras=NjQ4OTk0OTQ%3D

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Not sure if you are able to view this but

oh. My. God. I would die.


https://nextdoor.com/p/LxwzYY5hh-4B?utm_source=share&extras=NjQ4OTk0OTQ=

Major heebiejeebies.

We need to send SPD and SPC out there. They're both excellent ratters.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Not sure if you are able to view this but

oh. My. God. I would die.


https://nextdoor.com/p/LxwzYY5hh-4B?utm_source=share&extras=NjQ4OTk0OTQ=

Can't view it, can you post a screen capture?

 

[Road Ratt]

 

[MickZagger]

They got that good good Walter White style meth out there.

Conservatives doing meth is a scary thing

 

[Road Ratt]

90 shell cases found, no one hurt in southeast Portland.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...outheast-portland/ar-AASlLMo?ocid=hplocalnews

 

[Phatguysrule]

Conservatives doing meth is a scary thing

Most meth heads I've met are conservatives...

 

[Lanny]

Conservatives doing meth is a scary thing

Anybody doing meth is a scary thing.

 

[HailBlazers]

Portland's Big Pipe system overflows, spilling stormwater & sewage into Willamette River

https://katu.com/news/local/big-pip...er-heavy-rain-overflows-into-willamette-river

 

[Lanny]

Portland's Big Pipe system overflows, spilling stormwater & sewage into Willamette River

https://katu.com/news/local/big-pip...er-heavy-rain-overflows-into-willamette-river

Yeah, but it's so much better than when I, as a kid in the late 50s, used to sit on a Portland sewer pipe spilling it's output into the Willamette and fish for carp.

 

[THE HCP]

Yeah, but it's so much better than when I, as a kid in the late 50s, used to sit on a Portland sewer pipe spilling it's output into the Willamette and fish for carp.

@Lanny as a kid

 

[THE HCP]

Why would people want to pay so much extra just to live in such a horrible city?

 

[THE HCP]

Honestly you’d assume people would be packing up and leaving.

 

[Lanny]

@Lanny as a kid
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I had my dog, my bike, my fishing pole, my friends and my swim trunks. What more could a little boy ask for. I guess I could have asked for my father who divorced my mother when I was 9. I really missed my father. My mother married a rotten man when I was 11 which lasted a turbulent two years. He moved us from Oswego to Portland which made me cry for weeks.

 

[Lanny]

Why would people want to pay so much extra just to live in such a horrible city?

I guess Portland and it's suburbs isn't so bad after all.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Portland's Big Pipe system overflows, spilling stormwater & sewage into Willamette River

https://katu.com/news/local/big-pip...er-heavy-rain-overflows-into-willamette-river

Amazing how incredibly misunderstood these “events” are. And how people have forgotten how it was before the Big Pipe. That sucker has been worth every penny of the 2 billion plus that was spent on it. But every time there is an overflow people lose their minds. Total non story…..

 

[HailBlazers]

Amazing how incredibly misunderstood these “events” are. And how people have forgotten how it was before the Big Pipe. That sucker has been worth every penny of the 2 billion plus that was spent on it. But every time there is an overflow people lose their minds. Total non story…..

Actually cool history. Our water works are world class. Have only had one lunch meeting downtown in the last two years. Afuri Ramen, opened their first US location here because "the unique geography of Mt Hood and the Portland ecosystem produce water virtually identical to that used in Japan."

 

[tlongII]

90 homicides in Portland: 2021 closed with one of the most deadly months in a record year

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...-the-most-deadly-months-in-a-record-year.html

 

[tlongII]

But hey don't worry about it! Home prices are staying steady!

 

[barfo]

But hey don't worry about it! Home prices are staying steady!

Increasing, actually.

barfo

 

[Phatguysrule]

But hey don't worry about it! Home prices are staying steady!

The solutions are housing the homeless and getting the police to do their jobs.
Followed by refocusing our judicial system to be less focused on restitution and more focused on education and healing.

 

[tlongII]

The solutions are housing the homeless and getting the police to do their jobs.
Followed by refocusing our judicial system to be less focused on restitution and more focused on education and healing.

Those are not easy solutions to implement.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Those are not easy solutions to implement.

Understood. However, they are least difficult, most moral, most efficient and most effective solutions.
There is no other realistic way to solve the problem, aside from just throwing people in jail for not having a home. And courts have currently ruled that as illegal.