So you're bringing up a five-year-old post by an author that has nothing to do with this piece about life in a different city, which happens to be six times as large as Portland and is an actual big city with serious crime.

It looks silly to Portlanders in a boutique city where even the supposedly "bad" parts, like the Numbers, are not bad at all. But you understand there are actually scary and violent neighborhoods in some major American cities, yes?

If you've never walked through an unfamiliar neighborhood where you were startled by the poverty, I'm not sure if you're on the high ground here? So he wrote a somewhat tone-deaf piece about it. Five years ago. What is your point, sir?