http://www.iddream.com/2008/08/04/brain-drain-and-tummy-fill-up-my-days-in-portland/ Welcome to I'dDream.com, est. Nov 1999. Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:17:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.iddream.com/2008/08/04/brain-drain-and-tummy-fill-up-my-days-in-portland/comment-page-1/#comment-383954 I’dDream.com » My Days In Portland, Part 2 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:41:38 +0000 http://www.iddream.com/2008/08/04/brain-drain-and-tummy-fill-up-my-days-in-portland/#comment-383954 [...] Hopping on the streetcar I realized that the people-watching downtown is superb. Through the interactions of other people and how they walk and where they walk I get a sense of the grand scheme of things wherever I might be. In Portland, this is enhanced by the wide variety of people to watch. From the swearing teen-agers I mentioned before to the reading students to the business people on their iPhones to the homeless people with their dogs and to the artists staring off into the future, the big little town that Portland is breeds life. There is a heartbeat to the city that has long faded from so many other metropolitan areas. My mom once said a few years ago as we rode the MAX downtown during the hasty Christmas season that Portland reminded her of the grand city Detroit had once been. It made her happy and sad all at once. [...] [...] Hopping on the streetcar I realized that the people-watching downtown is superb. Through the interactions of other people and how they walk and where they walk I get a sense of the grand scheme of things wherever I might be. In Portland, this is enhanced by the wide variety of people to watch. From the swearing teen-agers I mentioned before to the reading students to the business people on their iPhones to the homeless people with their dogs and to the artists staring off into the future, the big little town that Portland is breeds life. There is a heartbeat to the city that has long faded from so many other metropolitan areas. My mom once said a few years ago as we rode the MAX downtown during the hasty Christmas season that Portland reminded her of the grand city Detroit had once been. It made her happy and sad all at once. [...]

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