When the only viable businesses are corporately owned, ppl BEST not be bitching about how this happened

It’s hilarious being able to obviously pick out ppl not originally from the area who make the loudest row about how bad things are here with the obvious intention to change things cause they don’t know what it used to be like or they’re tired of being jerked around and want to call this place home. I get what the end game is, but their perspective is completely lacking

His logic thread was just weird

Ask about the roast beef. Locally sourced

Far AF

It’s extremely suspect

Dress up like how?

It’s good at preventing unwanted hook ups too

Sigh just another narrow minded take refusing to acknowledge why people in the immediate neighborhood would react to a significant change like this after having lived with things being a certain way for literally decades. These city subs are often way too vehement in their inability to understand someone else’s circumstances….

Where was the coffee shop, out of curiosity?

If it turns into a hellscape…

Those rich people aren’t leaving though. Otherwise I agree with you. The difference between here and Detroit is we have every stable and burgeoning industry, and they had every one that wasn’t. (American cars were dying a slow death)

We’re those paying zombies?

I’m somewhat new to the sub, but not new to the city. What’s all this about? Is it just cycling related friction?

Wrong way bikers are going to get themselves fucked up by cars is actually my worry

Hear you, but if presented with the chance to be 22 again but you HAVE to do stuff like this, are you taking the offer?

It’s a great station

City govt does not want the optics of cracking down hard on drug related offenses, there’s not even a drug unit in CPD anymore. The police here almost always show up and handle situations when they occur, unlike other cities (read the LA sub). Everyone in this sub knows damn well that if it was 2+ years ago and police were aggressively cracking down on the very transgressors we’re talking about in this thread, there’d be fucking rallies at City Hall and at CPD about the police oppressing socioeconomically disenfranchised people.

The mixed messaging about the scope of what this country wants police to do has become remarkably convoluted. If you want directives on how to handle the illegal behavior that’s going on here you need to first look at city government and city management because they delegate to the police. Do you think Portland’s well documented ongoing crisis is because of police inaction..

This entire comment thread is a convoluted argument for some form of indirect rent control