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Originally posted by Camron Rust
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Originally posted by rainmaker
There are parts of Oregon that are in pretty bad shape, but they are spots, not areas. One thing about Portland that has always seemed rather fortuitous to me, is that some of the poorest sections of town are situated such that natural disaster isn't often a problem It seems to hit more middle class areas. Even things like electrical outages, often affect richer folk, and leave the working class neighborhoods alone. I suppose it wasn't planned this way, but it's a pleasant little piece of fortune.
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And why is it pleasant that one group of people is affect and another is not?
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It's not pleasant for anyone to "suffer". But when people whose lives are just barely under control are hit disproportionaltely, as seems to happen a lot, it seems to me to be especially cruel. In Portland, poorer neighborhoods seem to be disproportionately protected, a fact which feels pleasant to me.