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[etrain16]

I travel the country and spend time in many major cities, Portland is pretty pathetic when compared to many of them. I will retire in 4 years and be gone.

I'd be curious to see a few of your examples. I've traveled, perhaps not as extensively as I'm sure others have, to a number of medium to large cities around the county and I can tell you that these: LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Honolulu, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, Miami, Washington D.C., Boston, New York are certainly all places I would rank Portland well above. And that's even with my hatred of the Portland political scene.

 

[Medic!]

I like Portland and her people. Most folks here are kind. And I can handle the ones that are not.
The politics are not what I like. But it is hard to take a ugly picture here.