Quote: (01-05-2017 10:18 PM)Lunostrelki Wrote:
Grew up a mile south of downtown until I was 18. Virulently liberal, increasing cost of living, lots of foliage makes for good hiking or just walking around when you're sick of pavement. I miss it to death. There's a submarine on the east side of the river (last non-nuclear boat in the USN) that you can tour which is pretty cool, I went to it several times during my childhood.
I feel like Portland and the Willamette Valley in general is home to a sheltered kind of liberal culture that survives only because the population is about 90% white and largely of local stock. It's little bit like a less frigid version of Scandinavia, perhaps. The minority population is increasing, perhaps we'll see a rightwards political shift as outsiders cause panic among the locals (fat chance given our passive temperament and liberalism being akin to a religious faith among the urban folk). Even my unmarried hippie aunt I lived with in Eugene doesn't like how Oregon is getting overrun by people from out of state.
It is not to a city's credit that the best thing that can be said for it is good beer and the natural beauty outside the city limits, but mainly the natural beauty of the state which, let's be honest, was there before the city existed, and only made worse by the city's existence.
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