Portland/Oregon

[NYBBFAN]

Originally Posted by mcgoo2

Did you just jump out of a time portal from 2020? If businesses closes in 2022 citing safety concerns it’s not because of a bunch of protesters burning cars.

Downtown looks essentially the same as 2020, except somehow more bums and violence.

https://www.koin.com/news/crime/ever...cides-in-2021/

[Pacmeyer]

Originally Posted by TheHeel

Thanks. I’ve been looking at offbeat places to visit.

Brookings is a good place to stop if driving along the coast from California. You'd want to drive north because the southbound lane of PCH can be intimidating towards Big Sur.

Newport is more of a resort town and is much bigger so a better place to stop. Crater Lake but I haven't been there myself as I'm usually driving in winter when it's inaccessible.

[mcgoo2]

Originally Posted by NYBBFAN

Downtown looks essentially the same as 2020, except somehow more bums and violence.

https://www.koin.com/news/crime/ever...cides-in-2021/

Which again, is not from protesters committing violence. I'm not going to dispute the homelessness and crime issues, I'm just pointing out that protesters aren't running around looting and burning cars anymore. Pretending like that's a significant concern when visiting Portland in 2022 is fearmongering.

[TheHeel]

Originally Posted by Pacmeyer

Brookings is a good place to stop if driving along the coast from California. You'd want to drive north because the southbound lane of PCH can be intimidating towards Big Sur.

Newport is more of a resort town and is much bigger so a better place to stop. Crater Lake but I haven't been there myself as I'm usually driving in winter when it's inaccessible.

Newport was another place that is intriguing to me. I am assuming that that area isn’t very populated, right?

[Niels50]

Originally Posted by TheHeel

Thanks. I’ve been looking at offbeat places to visit.

Brookings in the summer is one of the most beautiful places in Oregon. The Chetco is an awesome river.

It is "at the end of the world" as my friends from there would call it.

[NYBBFAN]

Originally Posted by mcgoo2

Which again, is not from protesters committing violence. I'm not going to dispute the homelessness and crime issues, I'm just pointing out that protesters aren't running around looting and burning cars anymore. Pretending like that's a significant concern when visiting Portland in 2022 is fearmongering.

Mr. McGoo, I am struggling to find where I said anything about protestors.

[Pacmeyer]

Originally Posted by Niels50

Brookings in the summer is one of the most beautiful places in Oregon. The Chetco is an awesome river.

It is "at the end of the world" as my friends from there would call it.

Hardly feels like being at the and of the world with Starbucks, Taco Bell etc, and a big Fred Myer. It's still big compared to something like Gold Beach.

[Niels50]

Originally Posted by Pacmeyer

Hardly feels like being at the and of the world with Starbucks, Taco Bell etc, and a big Fred Myer. It's still big compared to something like Gold Beach.

Furthest south coastal city on the Oregon Coast with the next city 27 miles away over the border. Geographically it is at the end of the road.

[Pacmeyer]

Originally Posted by Niels50

Furthest south coastal city on the Oregon Coast with the next city 27 miles away over the border. Geographically it is at the end of the road.

Not much difference between Northern California (by that I mean Humboldt county and northward not the Bay area) and coastal Oregon. Lots of redwoods, cliffs, and fishing towns along the 101. It's only down around Carmel where there are luxury resorts and the super rich.