Ward I: ...I don't claim you were "screaming at California transplants"....I was addressing the incident in Portland wherein the individual was certainly "screaming" at the folks who recently moved there from California.  After all, that incident is the topic of this thread.  The impact of population increases in urban areas isn't a big secret.  Eugene is experiencing the same impact....driven on BeltLine during communter time lately?  It's quite one thing to be "upset" with this phenomenon, it's quite another to react with violence and vandalism.  

I apologize if my post seemed to be an attack on you, it wasn't meant to be. 

I feel we need a civil conversation about the issue: attractive places, as the adjective implies, attract people.  As the population in the area increases the place becomes far less attractive as the increasing density and/or sprawl impacts ALL aspects of life,  Portland, Corvallis, Albany, Salem, Eugene and even little J. City face this issue.  Gary Crum