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Originally Posted by RC14
I'm kind of with Delts on this. The decline of Portland in the last few years is well documented. It was doing great for awhile and then took a left turn a few years ago (no pun intended) and I think it's lost allot of it's "cool" factor.
Salt Lake City is clearly on an upward trajectory. Portland, at least for the time being, seems to be loosing ground.
Like Mstar said, I think Portland is "OK." I think it got overhyped during the 2010s.
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The issue isn't whether Portland is declining. It's referring to it as an apocalyptic cesspool, when it clearly it isn't.
Look: I know we all get extremely upset when people use hyperbole to attack Salt Lake and Utah in general. I don't find it productive at all to use it to attack other cities (and really, go read comments on KSL about downtown Salt Lake and they mirror in tone the exact same toxic rhetoric and it's just as crazy there too lol).
Portland might not be the Portland of the mid-2000s but that point can be articulated without sounding unhinged lol