Apparently the most emailed article today from the New York Times is about how affordable Portland is. My first instinct as a native is to hang my head and sigh, "Oh, no." I'm just sure that droves of hipsters will flock to my fair city and revel in our authenticity. Reading the story, I feel like they don't realize that one of the reasons prices are lower here is because wages are lower, not to mention 2nd highest in the nation unemployment. So hordes of unemployed hipsters moving here will just make matters worse. In the short term, anyway.
Of course, the Times was agog about our restaurant scene a couple years back, and I didn't see a huge shift in population then. But I haven't been studying the demographics closely.
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