# Dumb banter from the cities thread

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**Created:** [November 10, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dumb-banter-from-the-cities-thread/316077 "2010-11-10T18:59:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![saxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@saxx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/saxx)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dumb-banter-from-the-cities-thread/316077/1 "2010-11-10T18:59:08Z")

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[QUOTE=nobody;2583530]Portland, United States of America

Pros:

- Gastronomical wonderland.
- Beer. So much beer.
- Bicycles
- Public transportation
- Urban growth boundary (Portland has a dense urban core and sprawl is somewhat mitigated)
- Extremely socially progressive (for the states)
- Huge software / web development scene
- Rain
- Craft / bespoke culture
- Outdoors stuff super close
- Great music scene

Cons:

- Sort of small
- Trains stop around midnight
- Not dealing particularly well with our large homeless population
- Flipside of craft culture is that we don’t have many large corporations to supply jobs
- It’s America so we still rely too much on cars and highways
- Too many parking lots in the city core (though this is quickily changing)
- Super super super white, not a racist town by any means, but definitely a homogenous one

Other stuff!![/QUOTE]

I could go on for days about the pros and cons of portland. Mostly cons though. xD.

I totally made this thread just to hate on portland.