Residents and businesses in Portland, Oregon, are increasingly selling out and moving to greener pastures as the Democrat-led city continues to spiral downward due to rising crime, an out-of-control homeless population and economic malaise.
Portland is in such bad shape that business owners have been closing up shop and selling at a loss just to get out of the place, according to one business owner who spoke to Fox News.
“We have people all around us that are making the decision to turn around and leave,” said Jim Rice, the owner of Portland’s The Fields Bar & Grill.
“They’re selling their places literally at a loss just to be able to get out of Portland. They’ve lost faith in the local government,” he said.
Rice also said crime is forcing a lot of business owners to quit the city.
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“Our business has been burglarized five times in the last year,” Rice told Fox. “U.S. Outdoor, which is only maybe about six blocks from us, they have been burglarized 17 times. They finally had to close their doors because they just could not afford being burglarized as many times as they are.”
Rice added that another fellow merchant closed his outlet because his insurance could not cover his losses from repeated burglaries.
The homeless population in Portland is growing out of control… Homeless moving in taking over, blocking stores and access neighborhoods! Wondering why the city’s leadership and Real Estate Expects never noticed a problem in the making! pic.twitter.com/CMDv3NTWRZ
— Jack (@Jack21139688) September 7, 2022
Another now-former resident of Portland, Jeff Reynolds, told Fox that the homeless problem has made Portland unlivable.
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Reynolds noted that there was a public park down the street from where he lived for 30 years that became a hellscape filled with homeless people, drug users and criminals.
The park was once a beautiful spot for a stroll through nature, Reynolds said, but “it was just infested with homeless people drugs, needles, people having sex in the park,…
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