Crime and homelessness have made parts of America’s major cities unlivable, forcing residents to leave. Cities known for liberal crime policies are backtracking and adopting tougher laws.
When former Portland State philosophy professor Peter Boghossian decided to leave the city he loved, Portland, Oregon, he didn’t mince words.
“Portland is like an open sewer. It’s a cesspool,” Boghossian told the Freedom Pact podcast. “It’s like a murder over here, porch pirate over here, car stolen here, a dog mutilated over here. The murder rate is up 300 percent. The homelessness is terrible. Addiction is a huge problem.”
That description fits a number of American cities, where residents have moved on due to crime, drugs, tent cities, and trash – cities like Seattle, about which vlogger Chris Jae said, “Within the year and a half or about two years that I was there, I witnessed one individual pull out a knife and start threatening a group of others. I saw the aftermath of one shooting…”
Vlogger Diana Z says she left Los Angeles because, “I kid you not, you guys, there were at least five to seven crimes happening every single day. And these crimes weren’t like five miles away, ten miles
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