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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But if you knew where to go you could still be safe for the most part just using common sense and enjoy things especially the parks and views which is unusual for an urban area. Not so now. Only Pittsburgh rivals Portland and actually almost looks like Portland except with snow. They even have a lot of neat bridges like Portland!

[–]AntarchomachusAnarchist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened, I don't remember things being that bad 10 years ago when I was living there. I do miss those parks and just having all the trees around, it is unusual for sure for urban area.

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North Portland north of Powell Books was usually a shit hole if you stayed away from there after dark you were pretty much safe. There was always shootings up that way but it never really spilled beyond that until more recent years. Like any city most severe crime was usually in it's own neighborhoods smart tourists and visitors knew to stay away from so it was no problem for us. Now every part of Portland is practically North Portland on steroids!