Portland on 60 Minutes tonight (Beaverton, Beaver: transplants, real estate, violent crime)

[karlsch]

Originally Posted by CAjerseychick

reality? the reality is that modern day Nazism feels at home with the RIGHT wing not the left- are you gonna say I am wrong?.......

Before you go to sleep at night, do you check under your bed for NAZIS??

[Minervah]

The way I see it, this man had no ideology. He was a total nut job who drifted from group to group spouting whatever party line he felt would give him validation that day. Simple as that. In his madness, he had to hate so he focused his hate on the most (in his mind) likely subjects.

I don’t see him as being either right or left but as just a representative of his own insanity looking for validation real or imagined.

[Luckystrike1]

Originally Posted by Minervah

The way I see it, this man had no ideology. He was a total nut job who drifted from group to group spouting whatever party line he felt would give him validation that day. Simple as that. In his madness, he had to hate so he focused his hate on the most (in his mind) likely subjects.

I don’t see him as being either right or left but as just a representative of his own insanity looking for validation real or imagined.

This creep always looked freakishly familiar to me. I might have seen him in a MAX train sometime. Yuck!

[Minervah]

Originally Posted by Luckystrike1

This creep always looked freakishly familiar to me. I might have seen him in a MAX train sometime. Yuck!

It wouldn’t surprise me. I found riding the MAX to be scary at times.

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

I thought this was a pretty accurate report, as 60 minutes usually is. The segment shows a Portland that many know (the quirky, offbeat), but also shows some transitional features of the city changing into a rougher, less tolerant society. I thought it captured the city very nicely and truthfully, warts and all.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blog...ves-portlandia

•Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy paid $180 per month to live in a warehouse in the 90s, which less than what people typically pay now.


Okay, what to people pay now to live in a warehouse?

[Luckystrike1]

Originally Posted by freemkt

•Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy paid $180 per month to live in a warehouse in the 90s, which less than what people typically pay now.


Okay, what to people pay now to live in a warehouse?

LOL!!! But were there actual living lofts in that warehouse, or was he paying someone to use a corner as a flop house? I knew a few people living mighty poor in the 90's and still paid $400-sum for less than desirable places.

[Minervah]

Originally Posted by Luckystrike1

LOL!!! But were there actual living lofts in that warehouse, or was he paying someone to use a corner as a flop house? I knew a few people living mighty poor in the 90's and still paid $400-sum for less than desirable places.

That’s also my memory. The old abandoned warehouses weren’t set up for habitatation. But the owners would let people live in them for a fee. Starving artists lived and worked in them. So did people who would have otherwise lived on the streets. These were besides the flop houses that acttwere set up as living quarters, sort of. That was your Pearl District. Quite the place when I saw it in the 70’s and 80’s and I’m sure before that.

I don’t know if Portland has any real converted into apartment warehouses. I know Cleveland does. For Freemrkt’s info they anywhere from $550 to $2000 a month depending upon how large, location and how old meaning if they were really once warehouses that have been converted and not just new buildings in the warehouse district.

[Luckystrike1]

Originally Posted by Minervah

I don’t know if Portland has any real converted into apartment warehouses. I know Cleveland does. For Freemrkt’s info they anywhere from $550 to $2000 a month depending upon how large, location and how old meaning if they were really once warehouses that have been converted and not just new buildings in the warehouse district.

I don't know, either, but last time I went to New Orleans I wondered why the old Flagstaff Beer building appeared active, which wasn't likely. Found out that the brewery was converted into living lofts. Can't help wondering what they're like.

Back in 79 or 80 I had a friend living temorarily in a flop-house downtown, and I think it was in the Pearl district, now that I think about it. I cannot remember the building, or even his unit all that well. But the room was big enough to hold his mattress and that's it. Nothing to cook with, don't if he even had a bathroom. But he saved enough money to get his own apartment before too long.

[PDX10102]

Portland;
Progressive, no women's march this year. Small marches took its place...lacking organization.
Diversity, majority white, other races live in certain parts of the city...only thing Portland is diverse in is hair color.
Huge homeless population for only having 600,000 residents...downtown is a dirty homeless camp.
Rent is out of control...not sure why its so high with so little going on.
If you honestly feel nervous riding the MAX or for that matter anywhere in Portland spend some time in any other major city in this country...one of the few things Portland has is a low major crime rate.

[Minervah]

Originally Posted by Luckystrike1

I don't know, either, but last time I went to New Orleans I wondered why the old Flagstaff Beer building appeared active, which wasn't likely. Found out that the brewery was converted into living lofts. Can't help wondering what they're like.

Back in 79 or 80 I had a friend living temorarily in a flop-house downtown, and I think it was in the Pearl district, now that I think about it. I cannot remember the building, or even his unit all that well. But the room was big enough to hold his mattress and that's it. Nothing to cook with, don't if he even had a bathroom. But he saved enough money to get his own apartment before too long.

I think I remember flop houses in Portland where Pioneer Mall used to be. I know there were old apartment buildings where the state federal building now stands. People who lived there held protest marches on the news every night about losing their homes. At one time living in downtown Portland meant something very different than it does today.