You interjected with a ignorant attempt to paint Portland's municipal spending as a "strawmen" by highlighting the population of its metropolitan statistical area without realizing that MSA covers a landmass significantly larger than Connecticut, crosses into two states, spans seven counties, dozens of other municipalities, including
sixteen other large cities, one of which is the state's capital, and of those fifteen other cities that lie in Oregon, these include the #3, #4, #5, #7, #10, #12, #13, #16, #19, and #20 most populous cities in Oregon. That's
half of the state's top twenty most populated cities.
Because if you or your fellow dunce-in-arms
@Limbo Pete could do simple math, you'd realize that, no, in your backpedaling attempt to spin the precise figure you quoted for this area by arbitrarily downsizing it to 2m, which is the figure for the
urban MA, hoping everyone accepts this figure as an alternative to admitting your blatant goof, you'd realize that the sum of the internal city-limit populations from the other cities in this metropolitan area when subtracted from the Portland MA reduces the total to far below 2m, derp. You're
still talking about a huge MSA that covers many cities. All of those cities have their own homeless, their own populations, their own budgets.
Or, more simply, since I have to teach halfwits like you how to think, you could look at the
entire population of Multnomah County, which is the county that seats the entirety of Portland, and the population of that county in 2023 is 789K.
If you're going to cite an MSA, please, have the good sense to know wtf it is you're citing. It's mind-boggling that you're trying to save face, here, instead of quitely slinking off, and hoping nobody notices how much of a fool you made of yourself in this exchange.