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Originally Posted by fflint
Agreed PDX is low-density by West Coast and global standards. It doesn't have census tracts exceeding 100k per square mile, or an especially notable collection of skyscrapers. But Portland is most certainly "cosmopolitan." A huge percentage of today's Portlanders are former New Yorkers, San Franciscans, Seattleites and Angelenos.
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I wasn't insulting the city; cosmopolitan wasn't the right word. (what's a better word for shiny, tall skyscrapers and wanna-be Sex In The City posers?) I was trying to say that it
is very dense and urban in feel and has the same vibe as Seattle and, in a lot ways, San Francisco too. But is a city that lacks that pretentious Manhattan,
big-city vibe that so many medium sized cities seem to strive for lately. Whatever its census tract numbers may be, it is a very tight and urban city, more so than many cities than have far greater populations than it. (Houston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit...)