ok, well what about Portland, Oregon?

which is both good and bad for Portland. Despite the shitty election results here, Seattle has a momentum, but Portland has a warp speed momentum right now.

Well it has catching up to do.

The election results here were terrific, but it was just for measures.

no way rents can rise that fast in 3 years

Enh, I voted for measure 50, just for a way to get funding thanks to our trashed revenue system.

I'm somewhat fine with preventative smoking taxes, but this was not that. This was a regressive tax, with an unfair burden placed on poor people, who are seriously exactly the people who should not be responsible for paying for this.

Nevertheless there is a certain pragmatism behind the measure which I can't entirely reject. It would not have been the end of the world if it had passed, and I was on the fence about it for a while.

Wonder how many legislators really do use the "well, it's not the end of the world..." metric? Seems like a lot.

I am so fucking relieved measure 49 passed, my faith in my state has been renewed. Good job, Portland voting bloc!

Wasn't so much in favor of 50 cause it gave all the goodies to private insurance companies exclusively, according to my nurse friends who were against it. I am all for a smoking tax though.

Also, Dear New York Times: Shut up about us already.

Amen.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i still haven't finished my application for OHSU what the fuck was i thinking

Casuistry OTM.

Also, Dear New York Times: Shut up about us already.

But but but they say all these nice things about your restaurants and how everyone should go there and...oh.

Ned OTM.

People! Arrghhhh! New people everywhere! Arrghhhh! {weeps quietly and rips his remaining hair out in double handfuls}

time to figure out which city will be the New Portland

Cleveland. Oh, please God, let it be Cleveland. Make it soon.

only if Kucinich leaves Congress and runs for mayor again

Cleveland

pats in the flats, now that's class.

I really, really, REALLY like Portland a lot. I spent a couple days there last month, will spend a couple there again after Thanksgiving. I kind of hope that my wife's job will get us transferred there in a couple of years. But I'm pretty sure it will be too late for buying a house post-NY-times influx.

Pittsburgh as the new Portland, maybe? I've never been there but it's been kind of fascinating to me lately.

Portland, ME is the new Portland

A couple of years just might be a great time to buy although I'm thinking the best time might be next year. It's hard right now, because mortgage requirements are tightening up and sellers are still hanging on the notion that they can ask inflated prices. That balloon is starting to deflate: I was looking at housing comps in my area and all of the houses (South Tabor for the natives) sold for $5k -$10k less than the asking price. But don't get too hopeful: Factors such as the region's Urban Growth Boundary (especially in light of the passage of M49) and the fact that really Portland as a whole is still cheap in comparison to Seattle or San Francisco will only slow the price drops that other regions are seeing right now. Portland as a region in terms of real estate values is essentially a lagging indicator as to the health of real estate across the nation.

Having said that, there are still underpriced neighborhoods in town. It's just harder to find them.

xpost haha. Due to the nature of my job, I just may find myself in Portland, ME someday!

i moved from portland oregon to portland maine once

try explaining that to acquaintances

there's one important factor in all this portland talk that we've all left out: GLASS CANDY

Because Dandy Warhols will always be hated more in PDX than Glass Candy.

And don't get me started on Pink Martini.

PM dude's boyfriend is a nice and talented guy. The WWeek wrote a profile about him that was basically "PM dude sure knows how to pick 'em!" Which seemed, you know, massively insulting, that at the end of the day he was still PM dude's boyfriend.

...still *just* PM dude's boyfriend.

Well you're not helping, you haven't said what he's talented at!

I am moving to Portland , Maine

Nor have I mentioned his name. I am actually blanking on PM dude's name, but his boyfriend is Ph!l!p I0sca, who does textile design and artsy things like that. He did the textiles for the newly remodeled hotel on Stark (is that the Ace?).

And Aimless has been in the same room as him!

one freezing day in portland i cried on the bank of the brown willamette river, then i ate a muffin and fixed up my mascara and got on with it.

And then J0hn D. wrote a song about it.

Not just dogs, but pugs pervade in portland. This makes me happy.

Also, Dear New York Times: Shut up about us already.

hahaha, on Monday (right after real estate feature) the lead national page had a "Portland bike culture" story.

One of Pink Martini was the subject on a bareass-on-a-bridge photo in Butt.

Another fun thing about portland, which i probably have mentioned a few times: pinball is still viable here.

<3 <3

DETAILS. Also: I may move there next week, strictly on the basis of this fact. I know that there's a cool retro arcade?

http://www.groundkontrol.com/

Yes, I saw (or was forwarded by my expat ex in Brooklyn) the bike article. Also there was a recent article about one of our renegade restauranteurs.

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This clinches your reputation as a phrasemaker par excellence. Or else someone with many words on small scraps of paper stuffed into their head, which fall out into random patterns.

you're right, i ought to get that domain registered.

what would you do on a free winter weekend day based downtown without car?

Powell's.

Finnegan's/Portland Central Library/the Virginia Cafe/Ground Kontrol/Reading Frenzy

Scope the PSU chicks.

so there isn't much to do, then?

Head to the chinese buffet on SW 2nd(i think), right by the huge outdoor clothing store and the used bookshop(both marked by large neon signs)

ha! No, there's not much to do!

sorry, never mind.

I mean, Powell's. Duh. It's our only tourist attraction.

Alternatively, ask your favorite PDXILXor for coffee and chat.