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LOL, even so - so what? It's 2 years old instead of 1 year old. Like that's going to make a huge difference.
The OP's video showed boarded up storefronts, concrete barricades and fences around public buildings, and long rows of tents along the sidewalks, presumably occupied by homeless individuals. Did this video show what at least some portion of Portland is like today, or did it not? How much of Portland looks like the OP's video, versus how much of it looks like the pictures you've been sharing?
The OP's video showed boarded up storefronts, concrete barricades and fences around public buildings, and long rows of tents along the sidewalks, presumably occupied by homeless individuals. Did this video show what at least some portion of Portland is like today, or did it not? How much of Portland looks like the OP's video, versus how much of it looks like the pictures you've been sharing?
The video I showed even has some homeless people in it. After all it's only 2 years old! It's not like a city can go from 1st world paradise to 3rd world craphole in just 2 years.
As for the boarded up storefronts, no, since the riots last year would not show up in a video from 2019, obviously they aren't going to be in that video. But probably in a year or two they'll all be fixed and it will look like 2019 again.
So is this a contest? I don't have any pictures of Boston but it's a rich and beautiful city. Its suburbs are prosperous and leafy. The Boston museums and hospitals are some of the best in the world and Boston Symphony Orchestra is world known.
And it's not just Boston and its environs. The beautiful and historic cities and towns extend up and down the MA coastline. Then there's Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. None of them are trashed and believe it or not, the state is very blue.
I don't know anything about Portland, Oregon. Maybe they had a good idea that went too far. Maybe Antifa (not the Democrats) wrecked it. Portland, Maine is a great place though. Probably Democratic.
Don't like hearing about the plethora of Democrat cities that are dumps like Portland? Boston has its bad parts as does NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, etc so it is just not here in the West. Denver has changed for the worse since I have been here, especially in the last few years.
Yes, it is a contest among Democrat cities for the race to the BOTTOM.
I drive through rural West Virginia on occasion. Portland looks wonderful compared to the poverty there, if the goal is now to try and compare completely different locations.
I don't think anyone would argue with you. I never hear anyone say WV is some meca of wealth. Everyone knows it is rough around the edges. The difference is with how much praise Portland gets from the left and the progressive hippies, when their polices have turned it into a turd of a city.
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Like that's going to make a huge difference. 
