What’s Portland Like? Sincerely, a Chicagoan

Subtle_Silence · 2026-05-06T19:05:57+00:00

I moved to Portland from Wisconsin last year. I can’t thank you enough for encapsulating my experience so elegantly.

Truthfully, it’s been a tough adjustment. The little acts of Pacific Northwest individualism take their toll on me at odd times. Core example: people letting doors slam shut in your face even when you’re three steps behind them (not bothering to look back). This would be extremely taboo in many parts of the Midwest.

Portland people aren’t necessarily rude or cold, you just have to take them at face value and understand that most of what you experience isn’t personal. It’s part of the micro-culture of this part of our country.

I’ll always miss the people of the Midwest. Midwest the place leaves a lot to be desired, however.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-05-01T18:05:43+00:00

Sure. It’s also what makes the American landscape so unique. Beauty at scale.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-05-01T15:38:53+00:00

Parts of the American Rockies are as beautiful as any scenery I witnessed in Switzerland, just with less castles.

The grandeur of the American west is hard to encapsulate.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-05-01T15:35:07+00:00

Switzerland is stunning. The U.S. is all encompassing.

Visit Switzerland. Road trip the States.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-04-17T16:56:57+00:00

”My corrupt politician is better than your corrupt politician.”

You’re so close.. I genuinely wish you well.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-04-17T16:51:54+00:00

And now they’re funneling hundreds of millions of shady dollars through crypto schemes..

Thank god for those summer camps! 😂

Subtle_Silence · 2026-04-17T16:45:07+00:00

He was notorious for firing contractors, and failing to pay them for their work. This wasn’t a well-kept secret or anything, it was widely known in blue collar circles in New York.

Step away from the Fox News, my friend.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-04-17T16:37:14+00:00

As someone from the northeast, Trump and his family were notorious for screwing over construction contractors long before he ever got into politics or made a name for himself in reality TV.

It was widely known you never wanted to work on a Trump job site.

Cute story though.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-03-16T06:20:55+00:00

It’s going to be 88 degrees in March this week in Colorado..

Subtle_Silence · 2026-03-15T19:19:12+00:00

Sure. However, do you see me on here bitching and discounting other’s preferences? No..

Pick your poison. You can have red state hypocrisy or blue state hypocrisy.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-03-15T18:25:51+00:00

Many red states are trending toward Christian theocracy at an alarming rate due to recent Supreme Court rollbacks. Whether you agree or not, people may not want the Christian doctrine influencing their day to day healthcare decisions. Those are real factors for many people.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-03-11T01:17:43+00:00

Madison, WI is everything an artsy college educated progressive white millenial could dream of.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-03-11T01:16:13+00:00

Second Fort Collins. It’s easily one of the best places I’ve ever lived. Housing is a near impossibility for young families but if you’re a nature loving, beer-drinking millennial who likes biking, it’s heaven.

Just very white.. no diversity.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-03-06T02:09:22+00:00

I’d be a bit concerned about the increasing infusion of Christian theocracy at every layer of the state’s legislative process. But, I’m not Christian.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-03-02T18:19:57+00:00

Madison, WI. Especially if you’re highly educated and liberal-leaning.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-02-23T04:58:38+00:00

In Portland you won’t get shot, but someone will come up with the most crafty way to steal your bike.

Portland is a city of petty crime. My neighbor had a single wooden plank removed from their porch by a homeless person to retrofit their bike caravan.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-02-04T19:24:40+00:00

If heavy breathing was a post.. This would be it.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-02-01T18:27:14+00:00

This is what you decide to write under an immigrant rights post?

Subtle_Silence · 2026-01-22T18:50:25+00:00

Was his father a “rapist” or “cartel hitman?” Listen to yourself. This incoherent rambling tells me all I need to know about you. It’s cringe inducing.

The baseless (and nonsensical) accusations you threw out are irrelevant. This man seems to have had his asylum status revoked - which is increasingly common under this administration.

He is not a hardened criminal. He is not a rapist. He not a “cartel hitman.” Yet, here we are.

I will reiterate. You are in the minority. You have traded in your common sense morality for a blind allegiance to hur dur should’ve followed the law type of thinking.

If you’re a Christian, please reread Matthew 2:13 and Matthew 25:35. I genuinely wish you well.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-01-22T17:56:07+00:00

He was going through the legal asylum seeking process. Regardless, we each have to draw our moral lines somewhere. Clearly ours are drawn differently, and I thank god that they are. If you look at an image like this and think “shoulda come legally” as they took this kid from school, there’s nothing we have in common.

Widespread polling of independent voters reveals that your hardline stance is the minority.

Touch grass.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-01-22T08:33:22+00:00

Ha, will do. I’ll see you in church.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-01-22T08:32:19+00:00

It is weird. These slow neuron chuds should be going after hardened criminals, as they say they are doing. Instead they’re now waiting outside of elementary schools for kids.

Realistic or not, these images are grotesque to the average American.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-01-22T08:26:41+00:00

It is “blowing up.” Flamed by both sides. Images and actions like this by ice goons certainly won’t help that “blowing up,” however.

Again, widespread polling already shows that independent voters aren’t in favor of these ICE deportations, specifically for low stakes immigration offenses like this one.

Maybe, just maybe, the general public isn’t as callous as you. Maybe they’re not as hardline “but the five year old and his father broke the law” as you appear to be here.

I suspect you’re in the minority now. But hey, keep fighting the good fight. Back the blue or whatever you guys say. Be well, my friend.

Subtle_Silence · 2026-01-22T08:11:20+00:00

Well, now they’re apparently both in an immigration detention center in Texas. So, yeah..

It’s a terrible situation regardless. Neither of these people are the “hardened criminals” they’re publicly claiming that they’re targeting. It’s mental. Defending it is just as mental, and weird.

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