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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vincent206: [QB] Do the Brits have a [URL=http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/mar/31/railroad-romance-taking-train-vancouver]strange fascination with Portland?[/URL] [QUOTE]If there's one city in the States that wouldn't be surprised you travelled by train, it's Portland. Defiantly alternative, eco-loving, anti-commercial, this is the place that sports a famous piece of graffiti demanding "KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD". Its citizens pioneered the food-cart scene, invented egg-and-bacon ice cream, spurn cars for bicycles and treat the coffee bean with cultish devotion. Yes, it's ripe for satire – as evidenced by TV show Portlandia, which spoofs their earnest efforts – but there are people who like that sort of thing, and one of them is me. [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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