COMMENT BY
Bruce from Portland, OR
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
Portland, OR
COMMENT
Portland is great for open minds.
I've lived in Portland for 6 years and I love it. Yes, it's liberal and progressive. That's a good thing in my life. It's a city in change, trying out new things that sometimes work and sometimes don't. That's also good to me. Most of the people in Portland proper are open-minded, easy-going and a mix of races though it's majority white, the suburbs south and southeast east are a lot more conservative and white, the suburbs west are fairly typical upper middle class white with quite a nice community of South Asian mixed in. The dining is the best I've experienced with lots of interesting food carts and a wide range of vegan to steak house available to try out. I've lived in several cities in Southern Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington with New York City thrown in there for awhile in the last 30 years and Portland is by far the best overall. The grey winter weeks take some getting used to but are mild and the rains help keep the surroundings nice and green and the rivers flowing. The great city parks and the ocean and mountains are near and accessible. My family love Portland.