[thesloppy]

It's an interesting phenomenan. The growth rate in Portland has been pretty high over the last couple decades. It used to feel like Portland was kind of the refuge for folks with West Coast leanings that didn't identify with Hollywood style extroversion and couldn't afford Seattle...it was the weird, poor version of the West coast. Over the recent past Portland became a destination, and the personality flipped a bit....suddenly you had more mainstream, richer folks moving to Portland, yet chasing their translation of Portland attitude. The result is that the current interation of the city feels a bit like Portland cosplay.