Ha, well here goes. So I flew into Portland from sunny Scottsdale AZ but my glad sunboy smile faded when I got off the light rail and walked to a grocery store: it was a gray day, and a beat guy with a feed & seed hat coughed and wiped a long tenuous spiderweb line of drool off his chin. In fact everyone looked pretty beat. (This though was probably just the area of Portland I was in.) When I got to my scary dirt motel I only left to go eat two personal pan pizzas at the Pizza Hut across the street, and didn't investigate the area further--full of liquor stores & adult shops anyway. But one good thing about poor old beat Portland was their light rail system, *exactly* like a European city in this respect, very cool & efficient & even cheap.
Posted by Alan at August 11, 2003 01:09 AM