Portland has been and is now the Mekka for every left-leaning, whacked-out, red diaper baby, or trust fund ramora who ever attended the U. of Oregon at Eugene. Eliminate Portland and Eugene and Oregon is loaded with decent folk.
That has been my main observation so far...
We do have a growing drug problem (as most places do) and I think it is the result of the aforementioned deviant sub-cultural Meccas across the country we call metropolitan areas...
especially east of the Cascades.