what is going on everyone welcome back
to the world according to Briggs my name
is Briggs and I have a confession I live
in Oregon and I love it that doesn't
mean it's without fault
like all states there's some baggage
that they could stand to lose mostly
that would be things going on around
Portland Oregon if you talk to anyone
that leans right Portland is the liberal
purgatory to San Francisco being the
liberal hell yes just be clear Portland
is a little bit liberal to the
politically unaffiliated Oregon is a
great state with many things going for
it nature beer no sales tax beer
interesting people the list goes on the
downside is number 10 it can get a
little too liberal in Portland yes they
can get a little too far to the left
even for the left-wing people in
Portland if you've stayed up on news and
current affairs of the last decade or so
you're well aware that Portland leans
left if you've lived on planet earth for
more than a couple years you probably
have a good idea anyway this of course
has led to a lot of policies and laws
that some would consider stupid some of
them are so stupid they get their own
category in this list but one in
particular caught my attention that it
kind of tells you the mindset of the
people of Oregon if you phone in a fake
bomb threat or something similar to
courthouse or public building you'll now
be committing a disorderly conduct
misdemeanor so if you do call a threat
let's say to Old Courthouse you get the
same punishment as yelling profanity at
a kid's party clown because he doesn't
do balloon animals I'm not even kidding
I guess in Oregon you have to phone in a
real threat before they take you
seriously
and usually with things like that is
until after the fact they realize you
were serious this law has been put into
place because they don't want to ruin
anyone's life because they were having a
bad day yeah now I don't know all the
ins and outs of the law so don't be
doing anything stupid like that that
these days if you do something you're
pretty stupid so yeah that's just I cut
that one caught my attention and I
thought oh that's just bad and that's
just weird number nine everyone is
offended like I talked about in my
california sucks video oregon california
and pretty much any place you have a
younger population you have this trend
of being offended to get attention I'll
kind of go over it again because it's
important especially when it comes to
Oregon being offended by the slightest
thing is not a good way to live your
life when I was in high school if you
ask someone what now
analogy they were where their family
hails from things like that that was
called a conversation it was someone
wanting to get to know you they were
interested in your story and your life
things like that sometimes it even led
to things like oh I don't know dating
now if you have the gall to ask someone
something like that you're engaging in
what they call micro racism yes it's a
thing Micro racism while I was working
in corporate America it was a cable
company to be exact here in Oregon we
had a class on this don't be a micro
racist that was the name of the class I
was actually in this class and the
presenter said what is a micro racist I
whispered to the guy next to me is that
a [ __ ] Nazi I swear to God I saw snot
shoot out of his nose
needless to say I wasn't taking the
class seriously and I shouldn't have
nobody should have it was stupid people
are offended far too easily and they're
too politically correct these days it's
bad here in Oregon especially in
Portland
number eight too much tree-huggin now I
agree with saving the planet I think we
need to change our ways or we're facing
dire consequences but it doesn't all
have to be done today change is gradual
if you try and force people to change at
too fast of pace they resist and nothing
gets done this year 2019 here in Oregon
they tried to push a bill through the
Democratic controlled state government
that would drastically lower greenhouse
gases in different increments until 2050
when the state would be a hundred
percent green energy with greenhouse
gases being reduced by about 80 percent
it does sound like a good plan
it's just completely unachievable in
today's political and social climate the
bill was going too far so the 11
Republicans in the Oregon Senate went
into hiding you can't have a vote
without him I guess the governor said
she was gonna send the State Police to
round them up and bring them back so
they'd be forced to vote so they all
fled to Idaho one of those ridiculous
idiots started quoting the movie
tombstone he said if you send the State
Police to get me hell is coming with me
now that's a quote from the movie
tombstone Kurt Russel said that it's
like dude take it easy you're a 65 year
old senator the only thing coming with
you is a bad hip a bad toupee and add a
pack full of insurer now before anyone
jumps on the Republicans for making such
a spineless move you should know that
the Democrats pretty much did the same
thing in 2001 it's like a tradition here
in Oregon anyway so that was just a
little too much tree hugging and that's
just
one example of many things like that
that go on here
number seven protestors we have far too
many protesters in Oregon as far as
protests go ours are usually wild and
exciting now why does this suck well
we'll get to that in a minute let's talk
about the good part if you protest it is
a constitutionally protected activity
and as they should the police and organ
let people protests I get comments all
the time bashing the state and local
police for not arresting or throwing
these different groups out of the city
or state they can't against the
Constitution they do that type of crap
in dictatorships just like Second
Amendment tells you you can own a
firearm it's a person's right to protest
that being said there's a fine line
between protesting and being a giant
pain in the ass like blocking
intersections or freeways the only thing
you're doing is making people late for
work and this sort of protest really
just turns people against whatever cause
you're representing but it sucks when
you have too many protests that's all
there is to it we have far too many here
in Oregon
number six housing costs the rental
vacancy rate in Oregon for 2014 came in
at three point three percent it was the
lowest vacancy rate in the entire
country
this means a view at all the money you
needed to live a comfortable life in any
city in Oregon band Salem Eugene
especially Portland it was hard to
actually get one the housing market in
the state was bad for people wanting to
move to Oregon and there were a lot of
those people from 2005 to 2008 eeen
Oregon was one of the most moved to
states in the Union demand was far
greater than supply for five consecutive
years during that time homes are often
selling in the three to five hundred
thousand range for square footage of
about 1,500 the inventory levels are at
their lowest point in ten years with
most properties receiving multiple bids
selling agents were actually telling
their clients make sure you're ready to
leave because it'll be sold in less than
a week and you'll have to be out of here
in four to five weeks after that so yeah
it was bad now things have started to
cool a touch in 2019 but it's still bad
housing sucks in Oregon number five a
tale of two mental states Oregon is
weird in more ways than one it has a lot
of conflicting views or situations it is
a red state in a very blue state at the
same time the western section for the
most part is filled with Democrats and
the eastern part is overflowing
with Republicans the only reason the
state votes Democrat every single
election is the Portland metro area
combined with Salem and Eugene has far
more people than the rest of the state
now here's where it gets weird Oregon is
known for being one of the most friendly
states in the Union it also has a very
high quality of life rating and a great
livability score yet it also is one of
the leaders in residents suffering from
depression all kinds of studies show
that this is just a depressing statement
has a lot to do with the cloudy skies in
the rain all the time it just brings
people down seasonally what is it
seasonal affective disorder whatever
that nonsense was a while ago anyway
yeah it's just weird they're back and
forth on so many different things number
four it's still getting crowded so for a
lot of years Oregon was one of the top
three states in growth especially in the
youth population which also had been in
the top five since about 2005 the youth
migration is dipped and in 2018 Oregon
slipped to 11th in that category the net
migration peaked in 2016 and is slowed
in the last two years but here's the
thing most field this is just a
temporary lull the state's GDP is number
one out of all 50 states the GDP
measures growth in the economic future
of the state and can be a strong
indicator of up-and-coming locations for
businesses entrepreneurs you know
startups things like that it also kind
of tells you where places may be
struggling in the upcoming year so
Louisiana Mississippi and Alaska good
luck in the next few years there are a
lot of great companies that new grads
want to work for an Oregon so it's
really crowded in the cities already and
it's only going to get worse that means
more people drinking all that beer we
make here getting traffic and getting in
my way
showing up on the hiking trails I'm
trying to get a hike in I'm trying to
vlog or talk to the camera I look like
an idiot because I'm in the woods
talking to a camera yeah it's just gonna
be more people seeing me do that number
three the rain if you like sunshine stay
out Oregon Oregon has great summers but
that's only like three months a year the
state of Oregon averages thirty five
inches of rain each year the winter
months tend to be the wettest obviously
the counties near the Washington border
along the western half of the state
average about 70 clear days per year
just seventy 365 days we get seventy
clear days we get almost as many cloudy
or rainy days as Phoenix
get sunny days whenever you talk to
someone from Arizona New Mexico Nevada
about the heat they always have their
go-to reply that makes seem not as bad
they always tell you but it's a dry heat
it's hot you ain't fooling anyone
just like Oregonians ain't foolin anyone
when they say well if it wasn't for all
this rain we wouldn't have these
beautiful trees and all this greenery
but yeah the rain sucks for a lot of
people here in Oregon especially
newcomers number two the homelessness
Oregon is one of the worst in the
country when it comes to residents
living on the street
obviously Portland having most of them
as a matter of fact Portland is number
one in homeless for a medium City
they're only beat out by the big cities
like LA New York and San Francisco I've
talked about this on other videos as to
why organ and mostly Portland has such a
big problem with homelessness one thing
is they have great programs to help out
the homeless so we get some that are
making their way here to get some help
another thing is we really don't chase
them out a lot of other cities will
chase out the homeless or do what
everything can to get them off the
streets and get them out of the town
well if you do that you've just passed
them on to someone else made them
someone else's problem down the road
without addressing the issue so that's
why we have so many programs to
hopefully help out now a lot of people
ended up on the streets because we had
our real estate costs and our housing
costs just jumped through the roof over
the last decade or so that put a whole
bunch of people on the streets there are
a million one reasons people become
homeless like I said in the California
videos everyone knows the highest
percentage of homeless get end up on the
streets because they have mental issues
or an addiction problem one thing that
never seems to be brought up is the
crazy amount of Runaways Oregon has
living on its streets Oregon is
surrounded by three of the top five
states in number of teen runaways that's
California Washington and Idaho a lot of
those kids come to Portland and other
parts of Oregon just to get away from
whatever situation they're in there
because they know it's I wouldn't say
safe but they're not gonna be chased out
and things like that and there's help
form there that's why a lot of kids will
end up here go down to downtown Portland
I've actually seen in Eugene and
everything else like it you see a lot of
teenagers living on the streets here sad
and number one graduation rate the high
school graduation rate in Oregon is an
embarrassment and I'm totally not sure
why I've read article after article and
it's kind of weird now before I go any
further we're talking averages so stop
typing you
don't need to call me a liar because
your rural Oregon Outback school had a
graduation rate of a hundred percent in
your class of nine seniors that had
their prom at the Dairy Queen or
something
that's right Gervais Oregon I'm talking
about you now this is where it gets
weird they have on average decent public
schools they don't have a terrible
teacher to student ratio test scores are
middle-of-the-road compared to the rest
of the nation they just can't get people
to put that funny hat and gown on the
good news is Oregon's graduation rate
has steadily increased over the past few
years it still sucks and other states
have done better in the same amount of
time leaving Oregon to drop to the
second worst state in the country third
if you count Washington DC New Mexico in
the district Columbia are the only
places with lower graduation rates New
Mexico 71 point one percent and the
District of Columbia was seventy three
point two percent organized of 2018 was
seventy six point seven percent
graduation rate that's bad it sucks
Louisiana
Idaho and Colorado have shot past them
in the last couple years
congratulations Mississippi you don't
suck at everything
but graduation rate it is a big problem
for any state that's like the start of
everything schools start everything if
you don't have good schools good
graduation rates you have less people
with opportunity which means more
problems down the line with crime drugs
everything else graduating high school
starts people on paths if you don't
graduate you have a better chance going
down drugs and crime and everything else
that path if you do graduate you have a
better chance of being a productive
citizen so that's why it's so important
and that's why it's number one on this
list alright so that is my top 10
reasons Oregon sucks I hope you guys got
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