Comments by "Deathscythe Hell" (@deathscythehell7937) on "Death Of A City: Portland, Oregon" video.

A childhood friend of mine lives in Portland, she loves it. She a artist type she said she finally found a place we're she fits in. Where we grew up is a stifling city, (St Louis) creativity and individuality is hindered big time. Everyone of my friends and family who has left St Louis has prospered, and won't go back. As for the friends and family who's still there, good luck you're on your own. So if there's any city that needs to be burned beyond recognition, exploded into a trillion pieces, flooded by the Mississippi river until there's nothing left. Wait a minute I'm not done swallowed up by the New Madrid fault is St Louis and east St Louis. If you wanted to give the U.S. an enema that's where you'd stick the tube. Growing up there you got a eerie feeling of despair and depression. I've said this before, you don't leave St Louis, you escape from St Louis. Fun fact: The movie Escape from New York with Kurt Russell was filmed there, how fitting.
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@timjeffries1555 Hey I was born and raised there, escaped to Florida in 1992. It's always had high crime in certain areas but as I've heard from family it's gotten bad in the nice areas even the central west in, a place you never heard crime when I was there. The city murder record was set in 1970, 275 or 280 something and they've been trying to beat it ever year since. The homeless would sleep in Keenan square, memorial Park and the south side of the riverfront this was in the 80s. From what I hear it's gotten worse they're everywhere. Do I miss St Louis? No. Would I ever go back? Never again in my lifetime or any other lifetime.
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True, so true.
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@Larry Dale Sowell Yes my friend you got, the look of depression, despair and realization that you have no future. When I left that look went away and life's been great, there is a future just not in St Louis.
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