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Portland from the early-00's to mid-10's was peak modern urban America

relatively safe and relatively affordable while having lots ...
spectacular umber mother
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Dude, Portland was ruined by white people. Whitest city ...
bateful casino
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True every hicklib theater kid from flyover moved there to b...
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it's complete shit now
maize lascivious abode tank
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i visited a few times during the period and agree, it was gr...
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One of if not the best light rail and city block infrastruct...
concupiscible hominid plaza
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free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference
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it felt in certain ways like a friendlier, scaled-down versi...
spectacular umber mother
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Powell's was heart of Portland. Portland was the friendlie...
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It also didn’t have huge ethnic sections that are effe...
medicated gaming laptop partner
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it still had some rough parts, east side was pretty crazy w...
frisky jew nowag
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really glad i never bought that land near camby tf was th...
concupiscible hominid plaza
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I dated a girl from Portland and I couldn't believe it was r...
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Distinctly remember 1800000 food trucks by city hall area ...
concupiscible hominid plaza
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"omg the food!" -soy face hicklib
Thriller Thirsty Principal's Office
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Went there a few times back in those days. Always enjoyed it...
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Only went there one time, was when I was dating my wife in 2...
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It was too beautiful to live
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I grew up in Portland during that time. The housing bubble c...
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It was a combination of the end of ZIRP and the Sacklers spr...
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The Dandy Warhols were already singing about how "bohem...
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free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference
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I appreciate this poast-moniker synergy FWIW
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fiercely-loyal charcoal boistinker
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free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference
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PNW always a bit more out there and kind of forgotten about....
Supple salmon public bath
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free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference
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There were GOP senators and governors in the PNW into the 19...
bateful casino
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Al Gore only won oregon by like 6000 votes and it was alread...
frisky jew nowag
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You could rent a big craftsman house like this https://www.z...
frisky jew nowag
  02/06/26
The modern world is 180 (tp)
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Never been to Portland and probably never will but really en...
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I've never been either. But I had a friend who lived there f...
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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:22 PM
Author: spectacular umber mother

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.

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 8:45 AM
Author: bateful casino

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.

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: frisky jew nowag

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=2...id#49651609)



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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:22 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:23 PM
Author: maize lascivious abode tank

it's complete shit now

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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:57 PM
Author: passionate marketing idea macaca

i visited a few times during the period and agree, it was great

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Date: February 5th, 2026 11:58 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 12:00 AM
Author: medicated gaming laptop partner



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Date: February 6th, 2026 12:05 AM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 12:14 AM
Author: concupiscible hominid plaza

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: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:00 AM
Author: spectacular umber mother

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).



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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 4:43 AM
Author: Rebellious stag film regret

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.



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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:25 AM
Author: medicated gaming laptop partner

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.

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:49 AM
Author: frisky jew nowag

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.

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 5:15 AM
Author: concupiscible hominid plaza

really glad i never bought that land near camby

tf was that about

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 6:30 AM
Author: Rusted volcanic crater dingle berry

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=2...id#49650343)



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:37 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 7:17 AM
Author: concupiscible hominid plaza

Distinctly remember 1800000 food trucks by city hall area

Also some decent chicks near pearl

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 7:51 AM
Author: Thriller Thirsty Principal's Office

"omg the food!" -soy face hicklib

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Date: February 6th, 2026 8:46 AM
Author: bateful casino

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=2...id#49650454)



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:38 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 8:55 AM
Author: hairraiser forum organic girlfriend

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=2...id#49650472)



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Date: February 6th, 2026 10:04 AM
Author: bright vivacious idea he suggested

It was too beautiful to live

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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:37 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 1:10 PM
Author: Supple salmon public bath

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.

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:38 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 1:13 PM
Author: Henna coldplay fan

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=2...id#49651031)



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:44 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal charcoal boistinker

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.

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:49 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference

I appreciate this poast-moniker synergy FWIW

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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:52 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal charcoal boistinker



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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:53 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:26 PM
Author: Supple salmon public bath

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=2...id#49651503)



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:26 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: bateful casino

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.

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



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:57 PM
Author: frisky jew nowag

Al Gore only won oregon by like 6000 votes and it was already vote by mail so easily lots of lib fraud

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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:56 PM
Author: frisky jew nowag

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

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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:57 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference

The modern world is 180 (tp)

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Date: February 6th, 2026 2:51 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference

Never been to Portland and probably never will but really enjoying this thread in any case, ty

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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: Misanthropic step-uncle's house newt

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=2...id#49651553)



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Date: February 6th, 2026 3:40 PM
Author: free-loading hairless gunner athletic conference



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