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I’m trying to reconcile this cesspool statement with pretty great visits to Portland. Great summer weather, nice compact downtown, distinctive neighborhoods, easy to get around, beautiful greenery near the city, and lots of great restaurants, bars and music. Great music community full of wondeful and thoughtful people. If that was a cesspool, then I’ll happily dive in.
Thats the 2nd time I've seen you boast about being a 1%er. LOL you're a bonafide tool. Even if you were you'd likely be a conservative. You like 70% of your money going to failed socialist programs? LOL yeah right dude.
I’m not boasting. It’s pertinent to this situation because I’m precisely who you would think the Antifa would target.
The fact is you are talking about a city you’ve never been to and know nothing about other than what you’ve learned on infowars. Fake news.
I’m not boasting. It’s pertinent to this situation because I’m precisely who you would think the Antifa would target.
The fact is you are talking about a city you’ve never been to and know nothing about other than what you’ve learned on infowars. Fake news.
CNN is fake news. They would condone their actions, especially that tool Don Lemon. I have been to Portland a few times. No, there was no Antifa violence AT THAT TIME. You are burying your head in the sand if you think it can't happen at any time. I'm done talking with you. You waste my precious time. Time is more important than money Mister 1 percent. I hope you move to "Peaceful" Downtown Portland and live a charmed life..
CNN is fake news. They would condone their actions, especially that tool Don Lemon. I have been to Portland a few times. No, there was no Antifa violence AT THAT TIME. You are burying your head in the sand if you think it can't happen at any time. I'm done talking with you. You waste my precious time. Time is more important than money Mister 1 percent. I hope you move to "Peaceful" Downtown Portland and live a charmed life..
CNN is fake news. They would condone their actions, especially that tool Don Lemon. I have been to Portland a few times. No, there was no Antifa violence AT THAT TIME. You are burying your head in the sand if you think it can't happen at any time. I'm done talking with you. You waste my precious time. Time is more important than money Mister 1 percent. I hope you move to "Peaceful" Downtown Portland and live a charmed life..
Yea, it is pretty charmed. I know people who live there and have visited. Who do you know living there? What is it that you're doing on your visits to Portland that's so amazingly skewed your perception of a city with 600K+people in the city and 2.3+ million in the metro? Do you think maybe what you're saying just sounds preposterous to just about anyone who's actually spent time there?
Plus, your base of comparison Reno and it’s okay, but it’s definitely nowhere near as appealing as Portland and for the most part doesn't fare as well in the OP's criteria.
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Anyone notice that this thread has completely lost track of any discussion about Calgary?
Seriously they can take this Rush Limbaugh paranoid wingnut narrative to the P&OC thread. One can preach that the sky is falling in Portland and that it's on track to become the next Syria or Venezuela to their hyperbolic heart's content there. It's pure fulfillment for anyone with a political chip on their shoulder.
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Anyone notice that this thread has completely lost track of any discussion about Calgary?
Seriously they can take this Rush Limbaugh paranoid wingnut narrative to the P&OC thread. One can preach that the sky is falling in Portland and that it's on track to become the next Syria or Venezuela to their hyperbolic heart's content there. It's pure fulfillment for anyone with a political chip on their shoulder.
I mean, it's a US-based forum, so it's probably not going to have that many people who are very familiar with Calgary.
For what it's worth, Calgary has the third highest light rail ridership among North American cities with an annual ridership of 87,985,700 per year while Portland's system had an annual ridership of 39,173,700 per year. Portland also has its streetcar with 5,627,588 annual ridership, but combined it's still much lower than Calgary's. I've never been to Calgary, but to have that kind of ridership with a much smaller metro means that the developed parts are probably very densely developed.
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I mean, it's a US-based forum, so it's probably not going to have that many people who are very familiar with Calgary.
For what it's worth, Calgary has the third highest light rail ridership among North American cities with an annual ridership of 87,985,700 per year while Portland's system had an annual ridership of 39,173,700 per year. Portland also has its streetcar with 5,627,588 annual ridership, but combined it's still much lower than Calgary's. I've never been to Calgary, but to have that kind of ridership with a much smaller metro means that the developed parts are probably very densely developed.
Calgary is putting in a potential bid and is on a shortlist for the Winter Olympics in 2026, round II after the previous one in 1988.
At least I have the guts to tag my location to my name. Enjoy your Vitamin D defeciency and constant rain.
What are you going on about? I live in NYC and that's never been hidden for the last several years I've had this account.
You're not addressing anything actually pertinent to the cities being discussed. Portland is great and it doesn't have to be New York City to do so. Your rejoinder doesn't say anything about any of the cities at hand, because you don't seem to have any actual experience with them. It's fine if you stay in your own little hovel and are self-satisfied with it, but then no one should believe what you say has any real experience backing it and that's the whole point. You can state as much garbage as you want, but the important thing is to put your garbage in context as simply garbage from someone who neither lives in the region or knows much about it. This is great! Being able to express how off you are is part of what makes America great, because as much bull as you put out through freedom of expression, the idea is that there's a beautiful democratic mass, partisan or not, and only through drowning out the lack of experience and the inchoate stupidity spewed out from people who have such limited experience, can tell everyone else even when you yourself are a seemingly lost cause, that Portland is fine and a great and sometimes idyllic city with a strong economic basis and a wonderful environ. The proof is in the pudding and not in some rando fixated on their pet cause without anything to back it up! You should be happy about this and bunker down in your hole!
For the rest of us, while we await your glorious possible exit from your hole, will actually contribute to the economy and vote in the hope that your poor decisions on a personal level become insignificant in the larger mass of people who know better. This is great in a Calgary to Portland comparison, because Portland and Oregon is essentially moving towards what Canada as a whole is in some ways.
One question to ask here is what your actual experience of Calgary or Portland is. Have you ever been to Canada before? Have you even looked into what residency there entails? So what if you're ignorant and don't know what you're commenting on? That's certainly at your discretion, but on the same token it also makes sense for others to comment on your lack of knowledge and to question whether you even have a leg to stand on this discussion. If you want to bring this back to your own personal life experiences, then ask people who are personally around you if you have any reasonable qualifications to comment on Portland and Calgary as a comparison since you sound like you don't know a goddamn thing about Portland on the ground level, but maybe you're a Calgary resident expert? For some ineffable reason, you sound like someone who doesn't know much about either
It's truly unfortunate that this topic can't be a discussion about the actual cities at hand in recent posts given the bull put up by you and likewise posters. There's a lot more to both cities than what your myopic posts lead on to and it's weird that someone of as limited experience as you have has any part of this conversation. I add in to the commentary mostly to dissuade from this kind of stupidity and want to actually know more about Portland and Calgary.
So... who here had a lot of experience with both?
I, unfortunately, have had only experience with Portland though have been to Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, and various parts of Quebec. Portland seems fantastic to me and I know several people from there and/or grew up there. I think what it needs is a greater integration with the rest of the Williamette Valley which it has been trying for, but as a city in and of itself has been continuously a fun visit. I do get the sharp rise in prices and think that's terrible in several ways.
Just personally, I'd really love to know why where you're living is so much better than Portland and Calgary overall. What's that Shangri-La or Xanadu that you've found that makes you so comfortable in criticizing other places you have such limited experiences in and makes you so comfortable in doing so?
Off-topic, but I can definitively say why I moved from Portland to NYC, but it's certainly to my own personal preferences. What is is that you found that is so much better than the options listed that you have so little gumption in criticizing such places with little to explain why?
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