Portland
Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
- Don't attack other users.
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&%3Bdate=2024-02-10
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Agreed. In many of the bluest places there seems to be a lot of NIMBY-ism. So, while it used to be an affordable place to live, the older folks that bought their homes decades ago don’t want their home prices to go down. This seems to make things like re-zoning for multi-family (or denser) housing, restricting car parking, etc. much harder than it should be.
It feels short-sighted because living in a dense, walkable city is a really great experience, and it’s the only thing I miss about the East Coast. Everything else there I’m glad to be away from.
I’ll admit to not having seen the lion’s share of Portland’s neighborhoods, but the most walkable ones seem to be closer to the river. However, there’s no reason this can’t spread from there if we actually allow it too. Neighborhood bars, walking distance to a grocery store, more parks, MORE SIDEWALKS, etc.
Also, Minnesota is amazing.
I would posit that the HOA structure of new housing effectively undermines any sensical structuring involved in incorporating a new neighborhood of anything into a larger city space.