Why would you work as hard, for less, when you can move to a place that offers more infrastructure for far less of your own labor? (You might think - but you pay for it in taxes... Not so much when you're so poor that the codes don't apply. Or your own material wealth negates the press of the tax code on your own personal life. Is one of the prevailing issues in the city not this precise conflict incarnate? I noticed a lot of bums and needles walking through downtown a few weeks ago on my way to John Helmer's Haberdashery)

Portland is a wonderful place, where young people go to retire. Much like America is the land of the free and home of the brave today. On the outside everything is peaches, but on the inside.. The city is peaking, and as the basic needs to sustain life become harder to source for the surrounding areas, the town will end up like the others preceding it in history.

The culprit is already showing itself: the openness and inclusion of others in the city is no longer a secret. The irony of a TV show projecting this - and making a good profit doing so 😂. That's what makes the show so demented in my eye..