My Portland history is not excellent (maybe I'll read up on it) but my understanding is it was kind of a large logging town til the turn of the last century, then boomed through the post-war expansion. Then 70s and 80s were not so great economically, but it's been coming back since the 90s.
Portland has about the same population as Baltimore, but Baltimore lost a couple hundred thousand people late in the 60s-80s and hasn't recovered, Portland mostly stagnated and lost some businesses, which are coming back. So there's not the same kind of extra housing laying empty. Plus it's not going to have the kind of entrenched, generational poverty that Baltimore or some other east coast cities have, just by virtue of not having been a big city all that long.
I didn't even finish the second paragraph before I thought "She lived in Baltimore... no city is ever going to have a sketchy part compared to Baltimore." Sounds like another positive point for moving :)
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Portland has about the same population as Baltimore, but Baltimore lost a couple hundred thousand people late in the 60s-80s and hasn't recovered, Portland mostly stagnated and lost some businesses, which are coming back. So there's not the same kind of extra housing laying empty. Plus it's not going to have the kind of entrenched, generational poverty that Baltimore or some other east coast cities have, just by virtue of not having been a big city all that long.
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Baltimore is a toilet. Your bar isn't raised very high
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