Death knell???

Interesting article from Forbes on Portland, OR…

BLUF- Can one die from shooting oneself in the foot? Yes, if the wound goes untreated. Portland has shot itself in the foot. Most likely, the people of the city will come around and seek treatment. But if they don’t, the wound will prove fatal.

Full article, HERE.

And this one is kinda odd, all things considered, since the rioting is continuing…

Housing prices continue to go up and fewer homes on the market? Odd…

Full article, HERE.
Oregon is getting as schizophrenic as California between the riots, departures of companies, and people that can leaving in droves. I have NO idea where this is going to end.

A dead city or an insular Dem enclave/utopia? You tell me…

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Death knell??? — 7 Comments

  1. I’m at the other end of the state, but the local real estate market was tight since late 2019. For us, it’s not-wealthy Californians trying to escape Gavin Noisome’s tyranny, and with the Chinavirus craziness, it got worse.

    I suspect for the urban areas west of the Cascades, it’s wealthier Californians thinking it couldn’t be worse in Oregon.

    Not quite sure why, since our Dear Beloved Leader seems determined to follow Gretchen Whitmer’s lead in lockdown and personal bondage measures.

    Assuming the media isn’t lying…

  2. Hey Old NFO;

    It will be a wealthy Democratic encave with a perpetually grumpy underclass and no middle class whom had fled to greener pastures. the Under class and the wealthy democrats will have a weird symbiotic/parasitic relationship where they heed each other to justify their existence to the other and themselves.

  3. Embrace the power of AND.
    Portland decided years ago to restrict the growth of the city, by not permitting suburban growth.
    Restricted supply plus increasing demand = higher prices, but the riots have reduced the overall desirability of Portland, and made this a bad market in which to sell a house, reducing supply below normal.
    John

  4. I have several relatives in the Portland area mainly involved with shipping. Most have relocated their homes to across the river in Washington State. None of them are happy campers.

    Sometime back the idiots (Antifa, etc.) marched on the Longshoreman’s Hall. One time, and they haven’t been back. That little dust up never got covered by the “news”.

  5. We are still caught in the old thinking, debating deck chairs on the Titanic.

    Take a couple threads back.

    You and I both know how the Opium wars might have shaped the thinking of the modern PRC foreign policy establishment.

    We’ve heard the thing about how the PRC shutdown for the Wu Flu briefly interdicted the Chinese supply of precursors to the cartels.

    We’ve also been slowly awakening to the level of Chinese intervention in US government policy.

    Yet, even being unhealthily obsessed with the issue, it took me until yesterday or so to realize that the PRC sees the drug war as a way to screw us over, and that this lets us prove that legalization would never have been a viable strategy for us. No matter how many of the current substances we had decided to eat the cost of legalizing for recreational use, the Chinese would have found worse chemicals, which we could not afford to legalize, and made sure those chemicals were available.

    PRC is definitely gloating about our drug/crime problem. Some of the noise of ‘hurr, hurr, we shoudl have just legalized it’ is gonna be the PRC false flags fishing in troubled waters.

    We have probably dozens of policy issues where the official truth is a bunch of lies. That is a quite substantial aggregate cost of falsehood.

    This isn’t tied to a single location. Either we start processing the ways that the calculus has changed, and then work to replace falsehood with truth, or we will all pay a price.

  6. As I keep saying, if you have a Democrat mayor and a Dem governor, thou art screwed.