Thank you Brian. These are the numbers that needed to be presented in one place.

Now you see why I left, the situation is dire and no one in a position to do anything about it is talking about the magnitude of the problem.

The PERS nightmare is the main reason I'm trying to get the Idaho border moved. If that effort looks totally fruitless, I'll move farther east to escape the inevitable implosion of the state budget.

San Francisco escaped their doom loop because AI startups filled the empty offices. There's nothing like that on the horizon for Portland.