Move out of Portland.
“Don’t visit Portland.”
A younger friend, now in his 50’s spent about 10+ years in Portland as a young adult. He left 15 years ago because of how the city was becoming ravaged by druggies.
He recently had a mini vacation/job in helping to relocate a personal yacht (not his) to Victoria. The people, who owned the boat told him, they would pay for his flight to stop in Portland on the way home.
He told them no thank you. Getting shot or mugged was not in his life plan.
So, he caught a commercial flight from SeaTac to Sac.., and flew over Portland at a few thousand feet. He didn’t go to nor spend anytime in Sac. with its violence.
but it got to be too much with the crazy attitudes....
happily on their hobby farm hundreds of miles away.