2012 conventions 2012 election 2013 session 2013 special election arts arts and culture author ballot measures basketball bomb books boy scouts budget bullying business charlie hales children clackamas climate change coal college courts crime culture culture club democrats drugs economy education environment family film fluoride food gay rights guns handguns health health care health insurance high school history housing immigration international internet kitzhaber law legislature lgbt literary arts living marijuana marriage media medicine mental health military minor parties mohamed mohamud movies music native americans news newspaper obama olympics oregon our town parenting pers photography police politcs politics port portland portland business journal president prevention public safety religion republicans rnc romney rural salem sam adams sandy hook schools science shooting sports suicide supreme court taxes technology television terrorism theater third parties transportation union university of oregon washington wildfire women

Like PDXOutdoors, I too had to turn off the radio because I was on the verge of hurling it through the window into the street.  It has long been my opinion that the only thing more annoying than Portland's hand-wringing, introspection and general inferiority complex is the tendency transplanted New Yorkers have of constantly framing their experiences in PDX as in contrast to (usually superior) New York.  Please.  If NY is so great, so dynamic, so diverse, so alive, then why did any of you move here to our podunk backwater to begin with?  Portland is Portland, and it owes nothing to anyone who chooses to move here.  Having a little pity party because our (somewhat laughable) "World Trade Center" strikes you as insensitive?  Please go back to New York and tell everyone how ghastly it is here.  That would be a huge service to all of us.

posted 3 years, 5 months ago
view in context