Looking for tips and advice from people in the Portland area, please.

[quakerboy]

11. Heh.

My wife lived in some less than nice areas of LA in the past, and says the same.

They keep talking about a growing gang presence, but I have not personally seen it. There was a much more obvious gang presence in some of the smaller cities I have lived or spent significant time in. Here in PDX, I've been hearing them talk about it on the news for better than 10 years. And yet have yet to see more than a bit of graffiti.


As to getting lost.. that's true on the east side. NW and SW are their own beast, though. Get back in the hills, and unless you know where you are going, good luck to ya.