Portland gave up or joined with the protesters over recent years, for much of the past couple of decades it seems like. Such a shame as it was a great city—I lived there in 2000-2003, owned a house. The city’s then mayor, never even a licensed driver spent tens of millions on bike trails in a city where it rains over 300 days a year and most businesses don’t have showers, etc. They’ve been running leading businesses out of town and the county. The towns streets are lined with homeless, the police let protesters run amok. It is out of control. Even the feds seem to ignore it.
I was born and raised in Portland, and yes, it was a really nice place back then. (I don’t think it rained any 300 days a year, though.) I moved to Arizona when I was 30, in 1985, and haven’t even visited Portland for the last 12 years or so. I probably never will again, now that I don’t have any relatives still living there.