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Originally Posted by gmku
I might be moving to Portland. My wife's looking for work out thataway, and since she's the bigger breadwinner, I'll follow and do whatever. Is Portland still cool?
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I love Portland, though a certain amount of lack of cool is what I like about it. There's plenty to do, but it's just as easy not to do it in that there isn't some self-propagating inbred "scene" requiring one to participate in it at all times (can you tell I lived in Olympia for ten years?)
As Rick says, there's lots of good cheap food, though I'd debate him on the burrito front. I'm rather pleased with the cheap Mexican food options, but then he's living in CA, so I suppose I should just shut up. Again, I'm comparing to where I was last, and this is WAY better.
Yes lots of great music stores, from the infinite selection of used cds at Everyday Music to the awesome niche noise/experimental selection at Anthem on Belmont.
Tons of great musicians doing cool things too, but there is kind of a lack of a band scene per se, or at least there is no "Portland sound". However, I think that's a good thing really, as do most of the musicians you talk to. Nobody
wants to sound like everybody (or
anybody) else.
I saw what Rick said about an emerging alternative radio station of some sort, and yeah, I've hear the buzz about it of course. I don't really think anything is going to happen too quickly though, it's not that easy to break into the crowded airwaves here legally. Anyway, we have a few decent shows on KBOO, quite a few on KPSU, and I honestly think our whole station is at least decent (though we're only on AM city wide, we are on the net in a big way, and FM on PSU campus.) There was a pirate station too, but the FCC killed it recently.