Portland in the media

Posted on by Evan in Miscellaneous

Maybe you caught the trailer to the new comedy show called Portlandia at THIS POST.  Now NPR is getting in on the action with THIS STORY about the number of “20-something’s” that migrate to Portland.  Here are a couple excerpt’s from the story:

  • You can get everything from pad thai to a fried pie in one of the hundreds of food carts that have taken over empty parking lots downtown.
  • “This seems to be a mecca for the misplaced half-cast rock-and-rollers,” Gardiner says. “A lot of half-rican, halfie, half-black, half-white rockers out here and metal heads and punk rockers. I like that a lot. It seems to be that I chose the correct place to come if this is where we’re all flocking to.”
  • Twenty years ago, the percent of people with college degrees in Portland was lower than the national average. Now, it’s more than 10 points higher — about 40 percent. (does this seem contradictory to the previous bullet point?)

Too bad there isn’t any mention about significant job growth.