Anecdotally, I worked in SOMA in SF for 2 years, and now I've been working downtown in Portland for a few months...while it seems there are significant problems

Anecdotally, I worked in SOMA in SF for 2 years, and now I've been working downtown in Portland for a few months...while it seems there are significant problems here, it's definitely not comparable to the problems in SF in my opinion. I think the issue here is Portland used to be a small-ish "big city" and now it's a medium-ish city and the growth has happened incredibly fast. For people on the ground, it feels like everything's spiraling out of control. Growing pains and the challenges the come with being a major American city that people want to move to (both middle-class and transient groups) are to some extent inevitable. But I'm optimistic that progress can and will be made. (But I could easily be wrong. As I said, I've only lived here for a few months.)