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Black women made the career switch from corporate America to entrepreneurship during Covid-19. While it appears entrepreneurship was deemed a necessity, Black women were the largest group of new business owners closely followed by Latina women. These businesses have high growth potential but why is access to finding still a barrier?
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https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/12/black-women-say-goodbye-to-the-job-and-hello-to-their-own-businesses
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If you’re a person of color, Portland can be tough. Feels very liberal with edges of racism and there aren’t many people of color at all. If you’re white, you’ll love it. Most white people I know there love it while most black people don’t. Also, if you’re married with kids, you’ll enjoy it. If single, you’ll hate it. So it depends on life stage AND cultural background.
By edges of racism I mean being stared at a lot when you walk into an establishment, being warned by HR at work that there’s a proud boys rally downtown so best to avoid that area, being called the N word by a random skin head on the street. Or the opposite effect of being treated with overly niceness and being told by a white person that they’re happy you’re here and they believe Black Lives Matter. It’s just weird. BUT I also agree with others here that while the black population is small, the community is strong. Particularly amongst other black transplants. They look out for eachother, most of the agencies and brands have black ergs that constantly throw community events and run clubs and stuff to bring everyone together. If you can lean into that, and enjoy the outdoors, you’ll like it for a bit. But as I said, dating is really hard, especially as a black female. Nonetheless, my experience in Portland was overall positive. You just take the bad with the good.
I like Mark a lot. If you get an offer, you should take it!
Quality of life in Portland can’t be beat. Incredible food, relativity affordable housing, lots of outdoor activities.
In terms of job opportunities overall, Portland seems limited compared to some other major cities. Something to think about if you’re planning to stay here long term.
Do you feel you are special? Do you feel like something unique about you is what sets you apart? Do you hate it when someone else has that same quality that was supposed to make you unique ? Are they stealing your thing? Do you support diversity and inclusion very loudly and openly yet never volunteer or help raise those communities up because your only around other white peope who feel the same? Well then Portland (and most of the PNW for that matter) is the place for you. You can get coffee, fancy over priced donuts (dare you ever walk into a Dunkin), and fetishize bacon in all things.
I don't understand what you've written here.
Not worked there, but Portland is a wonderful place to live you’re at the right stage in life.
Dating is hit or miss depending on what your scene is. There's a huge variety of people here (locals, transplants, indie/alt, professionals, artists, trades, decent racial diversity) so unless you're into the IG influencer type you're prolly fine.
The hardest part is meeting people since apparently people in the PNW mostly keep to themselves. But between the apps, events/shows, meeting people through friends/coworkers it's not awful if you're intentional about it. Not a ton of romcom serendipity here.