My cousin lives in Hillsboro, Oregon which is about 35 miles from Portland. The BLM/ Antifa clowns decided to give it a pass during the 2020 riots. Starting trouble in Hillsboro is a good way to get shot by the locals.
It’s only 15-20 miles from downtown Portland depending where you’re starting from but point taken.
Yes, there is a big difference between tearing up commercial/government areas in cities and entering places where the children of working people play and sleep - nobody will risk harm to their loved ones. I didn’t see any women or children cowering, or their menfolk forced to defend them, when these radicals tore up the business areas because they don’t live there.
The cities here in NJ were remarkably quiet/calm during the past few years (besides the normal drug-trade related mostly black-on-black violence); I believe the black mayors put the word out that these areas were in no position to chase out the last few remaining employers and visitors.