Native portlanders are often a bunch of big babies when it comes to city life issues in a way that suggests they’ve never lived anywhere else. Parking is laughably simple to find in Portland, it’s fucking easy mode compared to any other city. Only core downtown is metered (Even then only business hours, and it’s only a few dollars), and there are no alternate side parking rules to speak of. Literally it’s easier to park in most Portland neighborhoods than it is in many suburbs.

Also most of these infill housing complexes are built close to transit, by design.