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This isn’t a knock at Seattle but in my experience Portland felt like more of a community.
Case in point: I lived in a house that collected food from restaurants that was about to expire. We took that food, cooked it, and gave homeless one free meal a week on a designated day, in a local park.
I learned after the fact that we were one of 14 punk houses that did this. We coordinated to make sure there was two hot meals a day for anyone that was hungry, homeless or not.
I had moved when it got shut down (and fully understand why it did) but this is how Portland is.
Having been to neither, Portland just seems cooler than Seattle to me. Not as much toxic tech stuff, more hip.
I used to explain it that it felt like if Asheville was a much larger city. Both are blue cities but PDX has an edge and isn’t so hippiefied.
A few years ago, Oregon passed a law that turned small possessions of harder drugs into civil tickets and $100 fine vs being arrested and serving jail-time. It’s not perfect but a step in the right direction. You don’t have to walk far to find junkies and tweakers in downtown but $100 fine is a lot easier to come up with than the literal hundreds it’ll take to keep you out of jail. Not to mention saving the taxpayers thousands of dollars keeping someone from being in the system.
Speaking of, Portland/Oregon is tax free. So suck on that Seattle.
Denver kind of feels like the Honolulu of Colorado. It's like unless you live there for work, you'd probably rather be in one of the much nicer places in Colorado.
Seattle is the birthplace of Jimi Hendrix, and therefore hallowed ground.
Portland was where Matt Groening was born, so I’d call it a tie.
Oh, rest assured, I'm totally #teamportland in terms of not wanting it to be eliminated this round. I just don't think Seattle should go, yet, either. I'm still waiting for someone to tell me something good about Denver.
Seattle's music scene is legendary. Portland's is just like "yeah we like good music here. We're so weird hehe. Wooo The Decemberists"
Legendary in the sense that they're all dead.
Ah, yes, such famous dead people as Dave Grohl, Brandi Carlile, Robin Pecknold, Quincy Jones (wasn't born there, but came up there), Kathleen Hanna, Ben Gibbard, the members of Modest Mouse, the members of Sunny Day Real Estate, the members of Heart, and Kenny muthafuckin' G.
