They love us
Tourists from Atlanta, that is.
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A little over the top --I mean, a lane for skateboards?-- and overly focused on the fareless square core...but one still can't feel a touch of pride.
Last Saturday morning we were at an oyster festival for Dan & Louie's 100th anniversary...less than an hour later we were sipping wine at Domaine Drouhin overlooking an impossibly beautiful view. I know that drives those folks crazy who'd rather see the Dundee Hills loaded with houses rather than vines, but part of what the author missed is how close we Portlanders are to such treasures outside the City. I think it helps make Portland great.
Posted by Frank Dufay | June 23, 2007 10:10 AM
The sewer bills certainly don't. We just got our quarterly shocker.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 23, 2007 10:18 AM
At least you can now pay by credit card on-line and get frequent flyer miles. Lots of frequent flyer miles.
(And don't forget to apply for your stormwater discount by June 30 if you're entitled to one!)
Posted by Frank Dufay | June 23, 2007 10:54 AM
I'm penciling it out -- I think pay toilets are cheaper by the flush than our house now!
Posted by Jack Bog | June 23, 2007 11:03 AM
You're not at the point yet where you have a house full of teenagers...I would love pay toilets throughout. And pay showers. A fee to open the refrigerator door wouldn't be bad.
I know, the kids are gone soon enough. I've cycled through a few, and you start to miss 'em.
That's the great thing about government. It never goes away. And we write you every couple of months to remind you that we're there and we care. And we provide a return envelope for your convenience.
Posted by Frank Dufay | June 23, 2007 11:33 AM
OFP ... 38 mile from PDX to downtown.?
Posted by Bark Munster | June 23, 2007 11:56 AM
I wondered about that 38-mile run myself, but figured the author simply rode the choo-choo out to Hillsboro and back.
Posted by Max | June 23, 2007 12:18 PM
38 mile from PDX to downtown
Maybe it was a creative cabbie?
Posted by Frank Dufay | June 23, 2007 12:31 PM
All I have to do is visit my hometown in Wisconsin during August or January to make me love PDX--the weather alone here closes the deal.
Posted by jimbo | June 23, 2007 1:51 PM
Sounds like a great place (except for the remote airport). Where is it?
Posted by Allan L. | June 23, 2007 2:36 PM
Born in Pdx in 1964, I miss the smell of
Henry Weinhard
Posted by todd | June 23, 2007 4:08 PM
Sheesh. Was that an article about Valhalla? The only things the author left out are the city drinking fountains that are filled with Pinot and the free magic unicorns that everyone gets when they move here.
Posted by jason | June 23, 2007 9:39 PM
What a stomach-turning read!
Posted by LC | June 23, 2007 10:08 PM
Dear Hotlanta,
It's a trick. The travel agent was bribed to write that fawning story.
Portland is rubes. They think the onions of Walla Walla (wherever that is) are better than Vidalia's, and they grow their own fuzzless peaches. Portlanders like sawdust, it's everywhere -- it's not called the Beaver State for nuthin'.
They can't even spell NASCAR.
Save your money. Go to Austin, Texas, where they speak your own down home language and at least the locals know why your laughing at them.
Stay home. Don't visit.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | June 23, 2007 11:43 PM
As the former great Governor McCall said- "Come visit us again and again. This is a state of excitement. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live."
So come, spend your money, than go back home!
Posted by expdx | June 24, 2007 12:11 AM
What Portland group hustles these stories?
Thanks
JK
Posted by jim karlock | June 24, 2007 3:13 AM
Where's the love? Not a single mention of the tram.
Posted by got logic? | June 24, 2007 9:08 AM
From the article:
"And don't miss the new aerial tram for a great view of the Willamette and the burgeoning South Waterfront District."
Posted by Sue Hagmeier | June 24, 2007 1:20 PM
gag.....now we'll get carloads of Hotlanta folksies coming to live here....stop it!
Posted by kathe w. | June 24, 2007 2:49 PM
Wow, Portland must be fantasy land. What tripe, the problem is that this IS the way the city looks to visitors. A fun place to visit but living ANYWHERE is typically a different kettle of fish. All that 'free' stuff has a price tag attached and all the folks who actually LIVE there pay the tab. Yeah, let's bring on more foolish articles like this one. You go Portland.
Posted by Native Portlander | June 24, 2007 7:39 PM
too late...this ATL family is moving to Portland in the fall.
I'm sure we will get a warm welcome.
Posted by scott | June 25, 2007 7:13 AM
too late...this ATL family is moving to Portland in the fall.
I'm sure we will get a warm welcome.
You will.
Don't listen to the nattering nabobs of negativism. They live in Beaverton, whose traffic would make anybody cranky.
But seriously...Portland has its pluses and minuses like anyplace. But it's a nice place to be. Welcome.
Posted by Frank Dufay | June 26, 2007 4:42 AM