Slideshow: Get to Know Portland, Oregon
By Ryan Ritchie and Amanda Wills, Frontdoor.com |
Published: 12/08/2008

Travel Portland
Portland is a laid-back city known for its eco-friendliness, rose gardens and a thriving microbrew industry. Beneath its polar-fleece wearing exterior is a confident, cosmopolitan city that doesn't care what anyone else says is cool. Portland does its own thing.
For many years, Oregon's largest city was regarded as a smaller and more accessible version of nearby Seattle. But as Seattle boomed, people looking for the good Pacific Northwest life and affordable housing came to Portland instead. Now the city is experiencing rapid growth. The city adopted an urban growth boundary plan to prevent suburban sprawl, so its growth has been smarter and less car-dependent.
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