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Posted on 08/04/2023 6:43:10 AM PDT by george76
Portland lost 6th-most residents in United States over past year..
Multnomah County, where Portland, Oregon, is located, reportedly lost more than $1 billion in income between 2020 and 2021 as a result of residents fleeing the state amid surging crime, homelessness and safety concerns...
14,257 tax filers and their dependents left Multnomah County during the first year of the pandemic in 2020 and took a record $1 billion of income with them.
The data showed that higher earners were more likely to leave since their jobs could be done remotely during coronavirus shutdowns, and the average income of people leaving was 14% higher than people who left the year before.
Before 2020, Portland had experienced 15 consecutive years of growth
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The 2020 exodus came at the same time that crime in Portland began spiking and the city broke its homicide record in 2021 and then again in 2022.
In addition, the homeless crisis in Portland has continued to spiral out of control and several Portland business owners have sounded the alarm about the issue and the crime associated with it.
"Our city is in peril," Portland business owner Katherine Sealy.. Small businesses [and large] cannot sustain doing business in our city’s current state. We have no protection or recourse against the criminal behavior that goes unpunished
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Going Galt on a small scale......................
The future of the nation
Liberals can’t get along with their own kind................
“14,257 tax filers and their dependents left Multnomah County during the first year of the pandemic in 2020 and took a record $1 billion of income with them”
Good start.
the obvious solution here.
Raise taxes. Double down on defunding the police. And MORE solcialists in positions of power!
That will revitalize the city, bring back high earners (or generally anyone employable) and get businesses to stay!
This is Great News, finally all those poor people can get their share of the money the wealthy have been stealing from them all these years.../s
Always good to not see Dr. Darling Daughter in any of those pics...
There is no reason for productive people to stay in an area that seizes their money and gives it to unproductive, lazy slobs.
Why would they remain where the authorities encourage the criminals to attack and rob the good guys?
Portland is the home of the 2020 “autonomous zone” in which all laws were suspended and criminality was organized by and implemented by the democrats.
Normal people should have gotten out then.
Gee, maybe it WASN’T such a good idea to let the ferals loot, burn, destroy and take over to make their pretend ‘country’ in the middle of downtown, huh?
Funny how we never really heard about when they all decided to just go back home to Mommas basement…
The descriptive term I saw/heard years ago was "locusts". Once they destroy one area, they move to the next.
Put childish people in charge and childish behavior happens.
Not childish, not accurate
Evil
I truly don't see that happening.
AKA CHAZ.
Katherine Sealy it time to rethink what you voted for.
More like the leftists killed it.
Democrats are so willfully blind to the reality of their policies.
They have a very unrealistic view of human nature and work with that and it doesn’t work.
I believe that was actually Seattle, which is as bad as Portland.
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