Been having the sense the last few days I would be having doubts about the direction the city is going in, if I was still capable of worry.
I dunno just if the new arrivals aren’t adding to the uptight prissiness it’s more cause they’re fresh out of college without a chance to get embittered yet than particularly keeping Portland weird, that they aren’t particularly upholding the old “books, beer, trees, and tits” formula
And who knows what’s happening downtown with all the offices empty, but like, the 90s was the dirt-art-prole-punk energy being displaced by yuppies (that’s what was inspiring Fight Club! Written by a local, once you know what to look for it’s transparently about Portland) and that stage is now east of the river in the Lloyd District by now
Eh, when I got this house I was like “I should take where I hang out now and where stuffs gonna spread to and settle between them. But closer to the latter, cause stuffs only going to lean harder that way as time goes on”. But the “spread to” portion was the only extent of the old streetcar network left, that had wall-to-wall stores and like, life, past that is the part that like Florida and then the part that’s like a banliue, the gentrification frontier moving further out seems to hit limits \u2013 life out there isn’t the life in Portland that draws people\u2026
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