Originally Posted by tacks
I should just ignore this, but you asked.
- massive drug use. MASSIVE.
- near complete lack of real usable mass transit that runs through the night
- lack of ethnic diversity
- rampant alcoholism
- sky high taxes, little/no social services
- I'm not even gonna mention the public education system
- the housing market
- govermental corruption like whoa
- no vegan pho! what the ****! I have to go to seattle for a decent bowl of soup!
there are lots of rad things about it too.
I dont hate portland. I'm just not too big a fan of living here.
fair enough, and very well argued. i guess most of these things just don't bother me that much, at least in my life. although i will agree 100% about the lack of mass transit through the night. nothing like being drunk at 2AM and having to bike 20 miles home.
as for the MASSIVE drug use, are we talking about pot, or very bad drugs? i would agree with you about the pot, but whatever, everyone does that these days...at least in my experience. i just haven't been around too much heavy drug use, so i wouldn't know if it was a problem or not. but i'm going to trust you that it is a problem, and that sucks.
as for the public education system, i have been in it all of my life, well now i'm in college, but yeah. anyway, i would agree that it is ****, because i'm a ****ing dumbass. i think these last two poorly constructed sentences are proof of just how bad it is. no doubt.
oh and i eat so much delicious vegan food that it's not even funny!
