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[macallen]

Send more hipsters, Salmon season is starting.

Thank you, that is all.

[Is it cold in here?]

Welcome, new person!

It's not a big deal, but that's an example of a post appropriate for the weekly comic discussion thread, which unfortunately is called the WCDT which makes it harder to recognize.

[Smerf]

Seriously?  Screw Portland, with your homeless people who alternate between asking me for money and/or donuts and your craptastic streets. 

I know why so many people walk in Portland.

[pwhodges]

Is there something wrong with walking?

[TheEvilDog]

Or is it because Portland has free doughnuts and your city/town doesn't?

[The Duke]

Whenever I glance at the QC Discussion sub-forum and see this topic, I always mistake it as saying "Regarding Portland-tits."

That is all.

[DJRubberducky]

    

Portland's, like, 100 miles inland from the coast.  It's a good 2.5 hour drive.  That's a whole lotta trouble to keep the chum refrigerated, especially when there's no shortage of California tourists the coastal fishermen can use instead.

(Alas, I left Stumptown before I ever got to appreciate its hipster appeal.  To the point where I was honestly thinking "Wait, wouldn't they congregate in Eugene?" because I was thinking of HIPPIES by mistake.)

[Boomslang]

"Wait, wouldn't they congregate in Eugene?" because I was thinking of HIPPIES by mistake.

We have lots of hipsters here too, but they're mostly native. Or are originally from Portland. Some sort of displacement effect, I suppose.

On the plus side, the local music scene kicks ass.

[DJRubberducky]

Oh dear...the idea of hipster displacement is all the more hilarious/tragic when you think of it as similar to the immigrant labor situation.  The immigrants crossed the border into SoCal, and kept moving north to find a demand for them, and now Portland's light rail announcements are bilingual (which surprised me more because Dallas's are not, though printed signs are).

Soon we're going to hear about folks in Pendleton wanting to put up a fence along the Willamette River to keep the hipsters from taking their coffee or something.

[hannahsaurusrex]

Portland is like Berkeley with less success stories.
But goddamnit The Waffle Window haunts my dreams.
And if you see a show in the Wonder Ballroom, eat at Toro Bravo next door, the bacon wrapped dates are amazing.

[xTheFreeMason]

I must confess that I have a rather serious case of Portland-itis myself. America seems like this amazing place where gaming rules and hilarity abounds and the girls might like me because of my British accent.

I feel that I may be slightly delusional. 

[Carl-E]

Probably.  Except the thing about the accent. 

[Boomslang]

Most Oregonians find the accent amusing, and will ask to be regaled with your tales of the mysterious Eng-Land.

Also, I'm sure cost-of-living here is a lot more reasonable, provided you can get a job.

[Laonefaye]

I have never been to Portland, but would like to point out that the suffix "-itis" technically indicates an inflammation of some kind.

This could be humorous. Discuss? 

[DSL]

Well, from Portland's point of view, it could well be inflamed. An inflammation of Portland.

At best, a case of hipsterosis, best cleared up by massive doses of instant coffee and Top 40 music.

[Carl-E]

I think Portland-itis is an inflamed sense that you belong in Portland. 


Wherever you may actually be!