"Children in Portland have no right not to be assaulted and are often targets of Rose City Antifa scare tactics. Antifa likes to chase small children with weapons if they see them downtown." This is absurd. Are you serious?
Jamie | Portland, OR | Report Abuse

LOL. Why does your kid even go to downtown for grade school? I was born and raised here. Here's my opinion with Portland. The homeless is pretty bad, but I've seen worst. Seeing as you're probably in the downtown area - that's as bad as it gets. One time I was in Seattle, and there was this women who kept following us asking for money and wouldn't go away until we literally told her off. Also, a homeless guy stalking me in Chinatown after I gave him a dollar. Come on, stop making it sound like it's a Portland only issue. Antifa are pretty annoying but I wouldn't say they define Portland. Do you know how many people move to Portland because of the image the media gives us? I can tell you for a fact, that the majority of the people you meet around or near the downtown area.. are in fact not native to Portland but a bunch of posers who wants to associate themselves with "keep portland weird" and who thinks being political correct makes them better than you. Portland is a liberal city, and quite a progressive one but it's not the natives who are bad. I've worked and went to University in downtown Portland. People often found it surprising when they learn I born here. Portland has racists, that's a fact. But if you grew up here, you would see how far we've come. So please, don't dog on us for not meeting your expectations, and if you ask me, your opinion seem extremely short-sighted. Do your research before you move somewhere and your kid wouldn't end up going to school in the least appealing area.
Frank | | Report Abuse

This is hilarious seeing as Seattle has the same homeless issues (as does any other large city). This lady is clearly just too conservative and close minded to he happy anywhere lol.
Renee | Portland, OR | Report Abuse

Sounds like what my brother-in-law ran into. He and my wife have a small garden behind their office building and he was out watering the tomatoes (he is now 72-years old). A homeless guy walked up and demanded money. He said no way and the guy lifted him up and threw him back into the raised beds breaking three ribs. The police were called and took almost an hour to get there. When they did arrive they asked what do you want us to do? The homeless guy was a crazed druggie with a knife and the police said they would not intervene and remove him from the property, but that they would call in their mental health squad who would stop by sometime the following day. The guy was threatening to kill anyone who came near him, yet the police said if they tried to do anything they likely would have to shoot him, and since they didn't want to do that they got in their car and drove away, leaving my brother-in-law, with three broken ribs, there with the guy threatening to kill him. The mental health squad never did show up but the guy finally got bored sitting by himself and left later the next day. That is the Portland I've come to know after living both in Portland and now in Happy Valley for the past 30 years, and it is the Portland I would love to leave, if we weren't so heavily tied financially to the area.
Thomas | Happy Valley, OR | Report Abuse

Yes, sure, Antifa chases kids around. LMAO . . . The homeless problem began when Reagan and subsequent Republicans destroyed the mental health system in many parts of the country, and they end up in Portland . .
sharon | Portland, OR | Report Abuse

Yes, sure, Antifa chases kids around. LMAO . . . The homeless problem began when Reagan and subsequent Republicans destroyed the mental health system in many parts of the country, and they end up in Portland . .
sharon | Portland, OR | Report Abuse

Yes, sure, Antifa chases kids around. LMAO . . . The homeless problem began when Reagan and subsequent Republicans destroyed the mental health system in many parts of the country, and they end up in Portland . .
sharon | Portland, OR | Report Abuse

Portland has gone to hell in the last ten years. Downtown is a travesty. You can barely walk for all the homeless drug addicts’ tents and sleeping bags. It used to be a lovely and safe city, but now its a cesspool. Overly liberal policy makers have destroyed this once safe, clean, and beautiful city. Now it’s dangerous, teeming with homeless, and snarled with traffic. If youre smart, stay away. Sorry but I lived here 20 years and saw the decline. So unfair to the residents.
Stacee | Beaverton, OR | Report Abuse