How Portland Works Portland City Guide

[hobokken817]

haha. willa- mette. i have no hope for mankind

[LeDavidBond]

LE MILAGE DAVID LE.  FACEBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK

[benjie414]

is this lady retarded?

[qwertqwe]

I saw my dad's work building like 4 times in this video haha

[AlphabetSoupCircus]

saying "will-am-mette" doesn't tell people how it's different from "willa-mette", dumbasses.

It's pronounced, "will-AM-ette"

[bkcalvine]

She lost me at Willa-Mit. (Should be Will-Am-Met)

[eyeeatplants]

Crime, panhandlers allowed to assault you and police will tell you you better not strike back or be sued. Teen prostitution daily and as cops drive by as white haired old men cruise them. A mecca for old pervert. Highest sex offender population.

VERY CLOSED MINDED PEOPLE. A dump with a very low quality of life. AVOID this 100% hyped city. Dare dine there as the health dept standards are nil. Ate at Beard awarded Higgins and my father was served a BAD FISH!

[kitsubugchan]

@eyeeatplants Oh no! A bad fish! I think your the close minded person.

[eyeeatplants]

Crime, panhandlers allowed to assault you and police will tell you you better not strike back or be sued. Teen prostitution daily and as cops drive by as white haired old men cruise them. A mecca for old pervert. Highest sex offender poplulation.

VERY CLOSED MINDED PEOPLE. A dump with a very low quality of life. The coast is nice but AVOID this 100% hyped city.

[andrealf63]

She was very difficult to listen to.

[SCUBONZIES]

BETTER THAN PHILLY

[MrRuigni]

@SCUBONZIES Philly is pretty dirty.

[SDgirl007]

IT'S WILL-AM-METTE, DAMMIT!!! NOT WILLA-METTE!

[trier4952]

@SDgirl007 I would agree with you, but she does have an accent. I would be willing to let it slide.

[cherokeesven]

@SDgirl007 very very painful to hear someone mispronounce that.

[TheMrBejarano]

I love the rain, which makes this city one of my top favorites.

[blakewilliams22]

Great! I have a college education and generally would like to be successful. Portland, here I come....

ThingsThatReally Suck:

Sounds like you live a pathetic and sad life. I couldn't imagine sitting on the computer all day getting upset that people have an education and make good money.

Keep living the dream you miserable bastard...

[lesamonster]

ugh. her accent is too difficult to listen to!

[BBdaWolfy]

She forgot to mention the constant rain and drizzle of fall/winter/spring. She also left out all the congested traffic. Its a fun visit in summer, but there is a reason people in Portland drink so much coffee all winter. It fights the depression from the constant rain.

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

All the poor-looking young hipsters you see all around town, are really spoiled, crypto-wealthy trust fund babies of the uber-wealthy Portland elite. Their "poverty" is just for outward fashion.

[reformationposttlc]

What's wrong with being wealthy? I don't get what your problem is. So you don't like Portland. Ok, you're free to do so. But why do you bore everybody else with it? Debating these questions of taste is really pointless. If you really must practice that self display: At least do it in an entertaining way.

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

You and your penny-ante Jedi mind tricks, declaring that I'm "boring everybody" and that I haven't done it in "an entertaining way".

Ah, the power of suggestion.  Maybe you should stop thinking so little of other people, that they would be so easily hyp-mo-tized by your verbage.

[reformationposttlc]

Sorry, I really searched hard in your reply, but I could not find a single argument. The one thing that really bores me is argument-free vulgar remarks.

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

You're a typical Portland liar.

[reformationposttlc]

Wow, brilliant point. You can really argue....NOOT!

I take your little insult as a compliment, but I'm actually not from Portland but from Europe. Yes, I'm one of those ultradetached, gay-marxist pornographers. Cheers, comrade!

[LSDetroit]

I really would like to plant you in cass cooridoor and see how long you would survive.

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

What a dumbshit thing to say, since we're talking about Portland here, and Cass Corridor is in Detroit.

Go see a neurologist -- there's something wrong with your brain.

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

Here's how Portland REALLY works:

Portland is a cliquey racist snob-hole for immature, pseudo-utopian WASP supremacists. So if you don't look like a slender and wan northern European, don't bother moving there, because they will completely shut you out of jobs and everything if you don't have the correctly frigid and sneering "shi-shi" air about you.

And bring great wealth and education when you come, because Portland is a snob-slut for fully finished professionals ONLY.

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

Portland is only "multicultural" if you have money and extremely high education, or you come from such a family, and are perhaps fashionably "slumming it" as a "hipster" for awhile.

And when you get to Portland, you must ABSOLUTELY change your driver's license and registration over to Oregon's, because Oregon in general is insanely Nazi fascist about everything being "true" Oregonian.

Once there, you must instantly develop the sneering mindset that all things non-Oregon are disgusting.

[stevemallen1]

Your an idiot..

[pavilionking06]

ThingsThatReallySuck.. You sound like one of those kids who talks down the party because you secretly want to be invited but your just not cool enough.

[bmp713]

Anyone who would verbalize another as un-cool is an insult to the concept.

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

I wouldn't be invited to "the party" because it would already be understood that the party and all its silly, stupid people would bore me to tears of blood.

But nice try, poop thrower.

[bmp713]

They will love you if it you call it ORGONE. ROFL.

[stevemallen1]

Yeah for Portland! Greenest city in America!

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

Yeah, it's green.  And mean as hell.

Mean and green -- THAT's the REAL Portland.

[bennyratt]

thats why i wanna move there..lol

this chick is annoying

[bennyratt]

yea, i love the cold weather, ..coming from a town thats 110 from may to oct..lol

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

And the uber-cliquey WASPs.

[BBdaWolfy]

Portland: a role model for the highest taxes in the nation and second highest unemployment.

Oregon used to be a state of progressive thinkers. The culture in Portland is now becoming one of an urban monoidealology where many believe they are "individualists" but in reality they are amazingly uniform in their "thinking" and follow the leader type of attitude. They allow their leaders to do their thinking for them.

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

You're exactly right. Portland is the uberhaven for the ubermoneyed. They are pathologically secretive and stingy about all things, even their emotions, not to mention jobs and relationships.

There is no meaner or snobbier place to live than Portland.

[islespatrick]

all the really good places to eat are outside the city.

[pavilionking06]

Portland is a great city, this video does concentrate on downtown mostly.. but tourist are more likely to spend their time downtown more than any other place so it makes sense..

[spredelectric]

Top Oregon tourist destinations include Spirit Mountain Casino, the Tillamook Cheese Factory and Multnomah Falls. None of which are anywhere near downtown Portland.

The closest major tourist attraction to downtown Portland is the Oregon Zoo.

So I'm not sure how "tourists are more likely to spend their time downtown" when official statistics by the state's tourism agencies show otherwise.

[spredelectric]

Lived in Portland or the Portland area (within 50 miles) for all but two and a half of the last 31 years.

90% of this video...not only have I not been to it, but don't know anyone who has.

Typical "tourist" video, accented by someone who can't say "Willamette" correctly ("It's WIL-LAM-ET, 'DAMN IT'"!! Note that "Willamette It and Damn It" rhyme if you didn't get it the first time.)

This was a great "What's to do in Downtown Portland" in one day video. There's more to PDX than downtown.

[pdxscott09]

I have to agree with spredelectric 100% Portland is a amazing city but there is more to it then downtown!

[ThingsThatReallySuck]

You're a typically hateful Portland Nazi.

[SavageSkittles]

i LOVE my city.

i'll live here till i die you can bet that! lol audiguy, come on back! we miss ya!

[audiguy04]

Good Review, unbiased and insightful! I lived in Pdx from '93-98 and I am seriously considering returning.

thanks for the refresher...