I visited Portland last summer, let them ride their freaking bikes to work. I saw more homeless, shiftless, worthless, scumbag 20-somethings over three days in Portland than I have seen in my entire 46 year life. There’s some good people there, and nice terrain, but the sheer numbers of just useless wasted youth is amazing.
So true -- I enjoy the city as a starting point for my visits to the NW but they are everywhere -- they hang out on building stoops and at transit stops and beg for money. Reminds me of the zombies from the AMC show "The Walking Dead." At some point the taxpayers will have to get tied of supporting these derelicts.