The Complete & *Utter Trashing of the Once Beautiful & Glorious, Picturesque-In-Every-Way Idyll(ic City) of Portland Oregon is a Real Tragedy to Behold (from However Afar)...& a Sad & Undying 'Testament' to the Ultimate Bankruptcy of the MODERN Political Left (in the U S A)

*'Nutter('s) trashing (as I completely inadvertently, freudian-slip-like wrote initially) rather! 

Once a city extolled (along with Eugene, Seattle, Green Bay, Wisconsin and the Twin Cities - of my mother's childhood) to the rafters as 'one of the 10 most livable cities' in the United States in my beloved Book of Lists my oldest sister gave me 'back in the day' 40 or so years ago...

And incidentally Yours Truly did sojourn there for three months or so in late 1992 and found the reports thereof were not unfounded...