believe it or not more people left Oregon in 2022 than arrived for only the second time since Lewis
and Clark showed up with a Native American Girl that said here look it's the other ocean I told
you there was two I'm sure a lot of your mouths are open right now because of everything you've
heard in the news about Oregon you probably assumed that people have been flooding out
of here for years because of liberal policies riots rivers on fire and serial killers dress
like clowns in ice cream trucks the state and the City of Portland aren't perfect but they're
definitely not as bad as they make it sound obviously most the negative things you hear
about Oregon have to do with Portland the truth is the Rose City is a nightmare and it's been
dragging Oregon down for some time now but not enough to ruin the dream of Oregon for
thousands of people every year Oregon has always brought in more people than it sent packing the
beaver state has always been one of those states that people never seem to leave once people move
here they stay here that was kind of this thing I grew up in Southern California I knew a lot of
people people that moved up to Oregon over the years and that was always the thing once they
moved there they never come back I know plenty of people that moved to Nevada and came back
within a year or two but in Oregon over the last 2 years something has changed according
to the 2022 US Census Community survey nearly 158,000 people packed up and left Oregon which
is roughly 33,000 more people than the year before now in that same time Oregon only saw
128,000 newcomers meaning they lost about 30,000 in case you struggle with math no demographic was
immune to this Exodus Oregon lost residents across all age groups in 2022 but saw jumping
out migration among children and adults between the ages of 35 and 55 this suggests families have
had enough of Oregon and in my opinion I think this is going to continue for the next 5 or 6
years unless there's some drastic changes in this video we're looking at what people say was the
final straw that ended their love of affair with the beaver State got it get it good let's take a
look number 10 work from home a portion of the current decrease in population can be
traced back to the economic downturn from the co 19 pandemic the crisis transformed the way
people work as remote work options made it more feasible for individuals to work from
various locations didn't have to stay in the city where they were working Portland was one of the
cities that experienced a significant Exodus of residents during this period now this happened
in most States but Oregon a little bit more the reason in part is the amount of call centers that
the Portland and Eugene Metro areas have it's really big here in Portland especially like the
suburbs like here in Beaverton I know a handful of people that worked at Comcast in their sales
call center in Beaverton right over by the Nike headquarters well during the pandemic with people
working from home they actually got rid of their like four story call center just me personally I
know a few other call centers like Kaiser in this area that have like half of their reps working
from home and a bunch of them are now living in Washington state since the pandemic a lot
of people I know have cleared out of the Portland metro area and move to Washington and summon Idaho
and they're still maintaining their jobs here in Oregon not just the call center people I'm sure
they saw a lot of that in southern Oregon too with people heading over into Nevada and Idaho
but yeah number 10 is people had the opportunity to move to another state and keep their job in
Oregon number nine taxes if you didn't know the taxes are a bit much here in Oregon there's
actually a saying that the state of Oregon loves his taxes like a sailor loves his rum every year
around tax time I keep hoping like Oregon will go into rehab for their tax problem besides the
state level taxes which are excessive I think here in the Portland metro area you have this homeless
tax if you dare make a little extra cash each year you have to help pay for the street cleanup
above all your other taxes you already had to pay not sure what's going going on over there over my
shoulder but it looks like he's falling asleep on his hands and knees in 2022 Oregon was ranked
as the fourth most tax state and they don't even have a sales tax everything else is through the
roof it really bugs me cuz just 30 minutes away from me across the border into Washington you'll
find the fifth lowest tax state in the Union and that's why so many people are leaving Oregon for
Washington they're tired of being taxed to death number eight crime yeah in recent years Oregon's
crime rate has shot up I mean thanks in part to Portland obviously Eugene and Salem have also
seen their crime rate jump and of course down in Grant's Pass it's always been kind of high
and it's not getting any better the violent crime rate from 2020 to 2021 jumped by 11.8% 21 to 22 it
jumped by 9% now this is what's really scary 2019 to 2022 shootings and homicides increased by 3
100% robberies increased by 50% in 2022 alone vehicle thefts hit a record high work order
requests for graffiti removal increased by 500% between 2020 and 2022 crime is driving a lot of
people out of Oregon and you don't expect it from Oregon at least you didn't used to expect it from
Oregon number seven the cost of living yeah the cost of living's been on the rise everywhere but a
little bit more in Oregon Oregon used to be one of those places where you move to to Save A Buck it's
why I moved up here almost 14 years ago and this is the part of the video where someone's going to
leave a comment of well you're the reason the cost of living's going up all you Californians moving
up here you're forgetting how California got so expensive people from Oregon Indiana Washington
Idaho they all been moving down to California for forever it's just the way the world Works once the
prices get too high someplace everyone leaves and the prices go down it's the way the world
works it's way to economy works as people are starting to leave Oregon now prices will start
to drop again but currently the cost of living in Oregon is 12% higher than the national average
housing is 28% higher than the national average and utilities are only 1% higher and that's
another reason people say they're leaving the cost of living that's not even figuring the taxes which
we already talked about so you got a high cost living and then you compound that with a bunch of
extra taxes I'm actually getting irritated doing this video cuz I live in this state number six the
weather people say they leave Oregon because of the weather I get it I understand it it rains a
lot it's got a lot of Cloudy Skies myself I like that type of weather sort of so it doesn't bother
me but I understand why a lot of people they've moved here they think they can take it they spend
about 2 or 3 years in Oregon and then they're all I I can't do this weather and they leave and they
end up in Nevada or Arizona or someplace like that just some people those cloudy skies and drizzle
all the time that wears on people and it affects their mood lack of vitamin D they pick up and
move number five the civil unrest yes this was a big one for people here we are at the number
five spot the civil unrest now it just wasn't the George Floyd thing from a couple years ago
let me explain a couple things here most or almost all of the civil unrest protests and
riots were in Portland they had some small things in other cities but nothing major no
matter what the news wants you to believe the other thing is it has been kind of quiet since
the summer of 2020 but that image and anxiety still lingers this has caused a lot of people
from all over Oregon to throw in the towel and say enough is enough and move to Idaho
and Utah and Colorado now it just wasn't the thing in 2021 there have been a ton of
different protests in the 13 14 years that I've lived here back in 2011 is when it all started
with the Occupy Wall Street granted majority of that was going on in New York City but Portland
had their own thing too oddly enough a lot of experts kind of say that helped blow up
the homeless population here in Portland and other cities but even though all the protests
and all that have been over for quite some time it still affects a lot of people and they want
out of the state now as far as how Occupy Wall Street affected the homeless situation I'll talk
about that later on this video because obviously the homeless situation in Oregon will be on this
video number four the real estate prices yeah part of the cost of living is real estate sometimes
s but it gets his own thing here on this list because that is a major problem people have with
Oregon is the price of real estate here's some numbers to prove my point in the first quarter
of 2023 the typical home price in Oregon was 43% above the national average now it's hard to get
a whole state's average house price but this is what I found on Zillow 490,000 is Oregon's
average home value in Portland give you a couple cities 528,000 and in Eugene it's 46 5,000 if you
go out to Bend Oregon which is kind of the new hot spot 725,000 now it's not all bad on the
eastern part of Oregon in places like John Day Oregon the average home price is around 260,000
so it's not crazy everywhere in Oregon just on the west side of the state where most the people
are number three politics and government now this goes on a city level and a state level the
state of Oregon's politics have been a nightmare for a very long time especially here in Portland
all the problems going on with the homeless the rising crime of course taxes everyone's
going to blame the politicians like they probably should they're running the show why are we having
these problems every state has its problems but in Oregon we've got a few that are just
being thrown in your face on a daily basis and it's driving a lot of people out of the state
my opinion you're just moving to another state and exchanging the problems for a new set of
problems every state state government has its shortcomings so really we're just getting sick
of what we're having to deal with here and we move to another state and start dealing with something
else number two the homeless situation yes this is driving people out of Oregon especially in the
Portland metro area it has gotten really bad now in recent months it's cleaned up a little
bit they've kind of you know shaken up downtown a little bit it's got a long way to go it's not
perfect but they're making progress as the old saying goes though too little too late you got
businesses that have left families have left the downtown area we've even got some issues
with homeless people in our rural communities I mean you're always going to have one or two
no matter where you go on the planet it's just pretty bad when you start having 30
and 40 homeless people living around a town of I don't know 1100 my friend Eric just moved out
to the dalls he kept finding some guy asleep at the end of his driveway but like i' said
earlier I'd been reading this study a couple months back about the history of the homeless
situation in Portland how it got so so bad a lot of it started with the Occupy Wall Street thing
for like 50 days those people camped out on the streets and in the Parks all around Oregon and
they did this in other cities too but this video is about Oregon and I'm telling you what happened
here after the Occupy Wall Street thing ended and people started going home they left their
tents behind and in a lot of cases they felt bad for the people that were sleeping under cardboard
boxes and stuff they'd go donate these tents to these people these people are all this is
great someone just gave me a tent and they just popped it up on the sidewalk and that little
Trend spread like wildfire now I don't know if that started here in Portland or what but that
was the beginning of a new era in homelessness in Portland Oregon now I'm generalizing here but
you'll get the idea of what I'm saying back in the old days you know we've always had homeless
but back in the old days they would stay under bridges under overpasses and occasionally you
know they'd have little towns in vacant Lots little communities sometime around 2011 2012
they started going you know what we're going to stay here on the sidewalk and it
became harder and harder for the police and local officials to get them to stop doing that think in
a lot of ways a lot of politicians and a lot of residents really just hoped it would go away no
it just got worse it's chased a lot of people out of Oregon especially Portland Eugene and
Salem all right before we get to number one don't forget we have another Channel called on this day
I am struggling to keep that one going cuz it really does a lot of good we donate to teachers
and stuff like that that channel just has never gained the traction I keep hoping it will anyway
appreciate if you went over there and subscribed maybe watch some videos all right on to number
one and number one everything else so there was a whole bunch of things listed that almost made this
list and I didn't want to ignore them so I thought I'd put them at number one the first problem
is the drugs so for a long time Portland and a couple other places just kind of let people do
their drugs on the street in public because they were putting people in jail for doing something
they were going to do as soon as they got back out it wasn't rehabilit ating anyone they were
just housing them for a little bit longer and wasting more tax dollars it was doing nothing
to put them in jail but cost money so I see the idea behind it but I think it was poorly executed
and poorly thought out that's driven a lot of people out the schools the schools have been
dropping in a big way in quality and outcome all over Oregon not just Portland sure they have some
shining examples of Great Schools but overall it's really we've fumbled in a big way here
in Oregon over the last decade infrastructure yes we have a crumbling infrastructure here in Oregon
especially in the cities where obviously most the infrastructure is a lot of that ties into
the homeless situation budget problems politicians making bad decisions and businesses leaving the
state less tax dollars to fix problems with the infrastructure and finally rumors and
reputation the rumors are big about Oregon and the reputation is horrible a lot of this has to
do with exaggerations and in the news going back to the riots and the protests they made it look
like on the news that the whole city was engulfed in flames and everything like that it was really
like a three or four block square area where all that was going on if you don't believe me go over
to Nick Johnson's Channel he came to Portland right after that happened and I met him and we
talked to a bunch of people together and they were saying no it wasn't that bad and he even
told me they made it sound like the whole city was on fire and it really wasn't he talks about it in
his video go look at it Portland Oregon Nick Johnson I actually went down there and filmed
it's on my other channel but I went and filmed just so people could see that the entire city
wasn't engulfed in flames but that's part of the reputation I get people still to this day trying
to say that antifa runs this city you know how insane that is that's some make believe stuff
that isn't even worth talking about but I'm going to there was an appearance and there was problems
with the antifa whole thing during those riots back in 2021 but some people that leave comments
are under the impression that groups of antifa people are crued around the city like gangs in
Escape From New York it's not a thing it's a rumor it's a reputation and it's a urban legend
at this point all right that's today's video that's why people are leaving Oregon hope you
guys enjoyed hope you got some information out it now go out have a great day be nice to each other