Portland, Oregon -- left armpit of the West Coast.
FING DISTGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Portland is nearly beyond hope, the only salvation to be found is in the outlying counties to the west and south.
We never go downtown shopping, dining, ride the MAX, or anything else. Only to the rose garden arena for games or concerts. I pay the $10-15 buck to park, well worth it not to have to see, listen to, smell, or have my kids exposed to the trash that crawls downtown.
Link below is to a dumping ground for all the mental midgets in the PDX area. My favorite story is the cow dressed as Lady Liberty crying about getting maced.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/region/portland/
Hah! That helps to complete the anatomy lesson. People used to say that if the USA needed an enema, you would stick the hose in Bayonne, NJ. Now I know where the stinky hippie armpit is! Thanks.