Portland is an incredible place with more natural beauty than 99% of major cities, it has many many great neighborhoods, a great music scene, good transit infrastructure, a great beer scene, legal weed, walkable neighborhoods, a great zoo. It's really unfortunate that it's currently experiencing a lot of homelessness because our nation refuses to address the issues creating them. But that is all contained to a relatively small area in comparison to the whole Portland metro. That you described it as a cultural sewer just signifies you're likely a country bumpkin in some flat desolate stretch of land quaking in your boots from years of fox News rotting your brain.
Florida has decided that it's going to teach in schools that slavery brought personal benefits to black people, and it's currently trying to legislate a genocide against trans people. It's a place full of geriatric reactionary retirees, endless cookie cutter suburbs, and a fuck ton of critters that want to kill you. Did I mention it's going to be underwater in the near future? Do I even need to go into how it's a globally known meme about Florida man and how shitty and depraved that state is? It's the butt of jokes on a global scale. Come off it bud. Don't front