Portland looks like an awesome city- how do you guys do it?

[58rhodes]

Originally Posted by Yankeemama

The native Portlanders I have met during the last five and half years have been very helpful people especially at my kids' school. I have never met more caring people than the native Portlanders and long time residents of Portland that have extended good will towards my family. There are many annoying hipsters in Portland, for sure, but they are NOT the back bone of Portland. We need stickers that say, "keep Portland genuine".

The keep Portland weird thing is kind of cool in a strange way and as a centrust native I don't mind it at all,in fact part of Portland's character is its nutballs of which I can be one at times. Over the last 50 years Portland has become a very TOLERANT city and people mistake what that means.------ it just means come here to contribute help preserve the environment let people live their lives as long as it isnt hurting anything or anyone.

we really do have all types here just like in any other city.

[CanuckInPortland]

Originally Posted by 58rhodes

Its kind of funny how a city of 600,000 and a metro of 2.3 mill gets lumped into one identity

Even assuming all of Portland is just this one stereotype is false. My NE Portland neighborhood is pretty average middle class and blue-collar residents who've lived there for years, along with younger families who just moved there and a number of Vietnamese and black families. If I go just east past 82nd it's even more different than the Portlandia stereotypes. Some people seem to think Portland starts at the downtown edge of the West Hills and ends around 39th or 60th on the Eastside.

[Agenias]

[quote=Yankeemama;39779383]

Originally Posted by Bluesmama

A lot fewer people had their heads buried in their smartphones there.

The kids in elementary school already have their heads buried in their phones. It is EVERYWHERE! I am putting off getting my older child a phone but she has a medical disability so it will be helpful for her though I am going to have to monitor her using it. It's different times we are living in, Bluesmama. I am glad the Internet wasn'tup and running until my late 20's. I learned to talk to people face to face. Ahhh... good times!

Not to get off topic from OP, but I agree with you on the phones. My son is 14 and said he is the only one in his school (we live in West Linn which is a more affluent area, so he may be right) to not have a cell phone. I survived childhood without one and I choose. Yes CHOOSE to have a dumbphone. I had a smartphone for one year and it honestly was too distracting, it felt freeing to go back to the "old school" phone.

I've never lived in S.F. But I lived in the Bay Area for a year. It was really pretty, and while I visited SF several times so I can't compare the two cities. I come from the east coast and I agree with you on the lack of potholes here in Portland. It's so nice!