I lived in Portland for 9 years until 2022 when I could no longer face the filth, the homelessness, the so-called compassion for the poor homeless that led to the streets being used to shoot up and to eliminate whatever was in your body that needed to be eliminated. The government of the city was nothing more than a bunch of progressive commissioners who had no idea about what to do except to try the same failed experiments over and over again. I lived pretty close to downtown where I had enjoyed the museum the symphony the movies and the general vibe when I first moved there. But at the end of my 9-year stay I never went down there. Covid was the final nail in an already rotten coffin so I left.