Portland families are leaving the city to escape homelessness and crime

Hotair ^ | 08/17/2022 | John Sexton

[sarge83]

Truth is the town is historic in many ways but the money is being wasted on stupid projects. It’s like they set a goal and shove off and then someone dangles $ at them and they run to get it even though its in direct conflict with their stated goals. Then another entity dangles $ and off they go in a different direction.

They could clean up the downtown, use the money to rebuild some beautiful Victorian era buildings and draw in a ton of people and money from the local university just five minutes away, but they would rather flail about and ignore reality.

[sarge83]

The police are ready to move these people out, it’s the political will to allow them. Many of the small business and home owners are at the point they are going to protect themselves and property.

I know of one small business owner who caught a couple in his business storage area upstairs. He threw down on them with his Glock and was ready to kill both of the homeless and ran them off and they haven’t returned. Heroin is now hitting this small town and I look for shootings to start occurring more frequently as the average person has had enough of the homeless scourge. When in the middle of January you hear a noise under your house and call the police and they find one or two homeless who have opened the crawl space and moved in to stay warm, that crosses a line. They would rather freeze and starve just for one more hit of their drug of choice. No sympathy, none. I have seen relatives go down this road and until they hit rock bottom you can’t be nice to them, they will abuse you.

[Retain Mike]

Prineville is about as far west as anyone could consider locating now.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I’d imagine Prineville has changed somewhat, too, since I was there (in the days when Les Schwab still roamed the earth).