I was born (1966) and raised in Portland.  As a teenager I loved taking a "quiet" walk along the waterfront.  Soon I found there were not many places where you could find "quiet".  So many people were moving to Portland from California.  There used to be a billboard that said something like feel free to visit but please don't stay.  I left the state in 2004 (only because all the rain was affecting my sanity) and the last time I visited (2016) I didn't recognize it.  Massive gentrification in NE Portland.  The number of homeless people seems to have sky rocketed.  Although racial diversity was always a small percentage (you would still run into an Asian, Mexican or Black) it is all but extinct now.  I drove through my old neighborhoods and all I saw were middle-aged whites.  Where are the children, the elderly, the minorities??  I let my family know that was the last time I would be coming to Portland.  The anger is just too much for me to handle.  RIP Portland, OR