Went to a friend’s housewarming in what on the East Coast would be an inner ring suburb past the city limits – as it had in fact been, built on unincorporated land, but Portland being so monoethnic it wasn’t a white-flight thing that chartered its own town as defense against annexation, and was in fact annexed when it didn’t have the tax base to pay for upgrades to meet new federal clean water standards in the ‘70s