An ordinary city hall, which was a little bit smaller than I expected. It is very close to Portlandia.

I have traveled all over the world and been to almost every state. The last 5 days in Portland, Oregon with my 15 year old son was astonishing. Portland has been ruined. Massive drug use, tens of thousands of homeless people, people walking around like zombies in the middle of the day, tents everywhere, human waste all over, trash. I am never coming back nor would I recommend anyone to go. You will feel unsafe and watching over your back the entire time. I can’t believe this is the US. The people running the city and state should be ashamed.

Portland is not a nice place to visit. Full of addicts, homeless & trash. The drivers in the city are extremely rude. Not a place I'd bring my family. The city blogs boast good food but throughout my stay there I got food poisoning once and was grossed out by another restaurants uncleanliness. The kitchen workers mostly appear to be foreign & handle the food without gloves or hair nets. Once out of the city Oregon is beautiful, but the city itself is a mess.

We went by while we were looking for the Portlandia statue which we found out later was boarded up since the riots. Unfortunately, much of the City Hall was boarded up as well, which says a lot about the city as a whole. I know they had a problem with riots but other places we visited, including Minneapolis, had already repaired much of the damage done, Portland seems to not care about tourist dollars. Most of the city is either filthy dirty, tagged, or filled with homeless who just want money, not food, or some combination of all three. Of all the places we went on our road trip Portland was one of the two places we looked most forward to leaving. There are stores with 10' fences around them and armed security, even the donut place we visited had a security officer! The sad thing is there are a lot of cool things in Portland, it's just very uncomfortable and aggravating to visit any of them. We walked about 6 blocks to get to the courthouse and in that time we were approached by 11 homeless asking for money. If I were visiting the area again I would have a t-shirt made that says I'm not your ATM.

This building is an old stone building. It’s pretty nice looking. It looks like it escaped a lot of the tagging that hit the rest of downtown. Nice to look at.