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Here's to hoping you guys can take back your city... because if you don't, it will become yet another has-been outpost left behind by prosperity. I hope that doesn't happen, but the visuals here tell me it's more likely than not.
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The poster mentioned that he intentionally focused on blight, on a Sunday morning. You could go to any city and drive around looking for graffiti to shoot, and someone will think this is representative of the whole city. It's like watching protests on the news and assuming these happen every day, everywhere, when in reality they take place sporadically on a couple square blocks and 99.999% of the city doesn't even know about them until they see the news. Portland had a rough year, no doubt. But a year of unrest + pandemic doesn't obliterate all of its positive attributes.
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Portland has so many intrinsic strengths that I’m optimistic it will rebound well.
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I think that's what most are counting on.