Rising taxes and a falling quality of life have some Stumptown die-hards voting with their feet.
by Willamette Week
February 1, 2023
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Estimates from PSU's Population Research Center are helping local economists and lawmakers determine why so many Portlanders are now fleeing the city the once loved for a better quality of life.
"Multnomah County has lost residents for the past three years, according to Portland State University’s Population Research Center. Before 2020, it hadn’t lost people since 1987, and that was just a one-year blip in an upward run that began in 1984.
In the most recent PSU estimate—for the year ended July 1, 2022—the population fell by 2,321. The cause was 'out migration,' PSU says, which is a fancy way of saying people bailed."
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