[Magdalen] 2015

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Scott Knitter

>The TV programme Portlandia has made me want to see the town my West
>Coast friends say is so well portrayed even though it's a comedy. :)

>From the NYT Magazine September 16:

Portland has taken hold of the cultural imagination as, to borrow the tag line 
from “Portlandia,” the place where young people go to retire. And for good 
reason: The city has nearly all the perks that economists suggest lead to a high 
quality of life — coastlines, mountains, mild winters and summers, restaurants, 
cultural institutions and clean air. (Fortunately, college-educated people don’t 
value sunshine as much as they used to.) Portland also has qualities that are 
less tangible but still likely to attract young people these days, like a 
politically open culture that supports gay rights and the legalization of 
marijuana — in addition to the right of way for unicyclists or the ability to 
marry in a 24/7 doughnut shop. “It’s really captured the zeitgeist of the age in 
a way that no other small city in America ever has,” said Aaron Renn, an 
urban-affairs analyst who writes the Urbanophile blog. According to professors 
from Portland State University, the city has been able to attract and retain 
young college-educated people at the second-highest rate in the nation. 
(Louisville, Ky., is No. 1.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/magazine/will-portland-always-be-a-retirement-community-for-the-young.html

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA