Affordable, liberal, city that is friendly to those without cars.

[costello_musicman]

Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis

[Katarina Witt]

Look at Denver if you want to go out west. Affordable housing, great public transportation, very walkable, great climate, reasonably gay-friendly.

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by yuanmoons42

However, I eventually got the sense that Portlanders are kind of snotty about their own quirkyness (hipsters) and don't really like transplants (because they drive housing prices up, push natives to suburbs, disrupt the local culture, etc.)

I was born in Oregon but my parents weren't. They felt shunned the entire time they lived there. My family moved when I was 4 and none of us have ever gone back.