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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.

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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&amp%3Bdate=2024-02-10

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High housing costs and job losses continue to drag down Portland’s economy (www.opb.org)

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I do not understand why so many places make themselves target examples for the right, by being unlivable for working class people on one income stream.

One of the most sane and often repeated arguments regarding liberal ideology is that you can’t afford to live in it. Then, Seattle, Portland, and California are pointed to. It’s a fair take. I read a real estate article re homes across states, “affordable” pockets vs not. WA state, for example, has seen an 888% home price increase across the last decade, higher than any other state, including Hawaii and California.

Why? Why is it always blue?

Meanwhile, Minnesota is steadfastly blue, even through the Reagan years, and is affordable.

Again. Why?

[–] stephen@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

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.