Portland, Oregon, is (one of the) most entrepreneurial towns in the world

Post by mikeryan » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 9:59 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #4

jsackmann wrote: post #3

My reaction is mostly personal: This is f'ing awesome. I've lived in NYC for most of the last decade after growing up in the northwest, and I've had the urge to move...somewhere. Just in the last few days, I came to terms with the fact that while I didn't really want to move "back home," Portland is the ideal place. Decent-size place, nice climate year-round, plenty of culture, great variety of stuff to do within a d…

> I grew up in a mid-sized town several hours away, Eugene? That's where I'm from. > nice climate year-round, Let's be honest, if it were, then it would be inundated with people because it is a nice place in so many other ways. It's not, though, IMO; it's gray and drizzly from October to early summer (and usually stops raining the 5th of July). If people don't mind that, it's a great place, though, although it does t…

Post by colins_pride » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 10:44 PM UTC

mikeryan wrote: post #12

This whole article seems to be based around 2 strange strawmen about the original article. First the original article never said the "Best" or "Top Ten" entrepreneurial cities. It was just a "here are some good towns to start a business in" It's also very much not tech focused.

Post by mtrichardson » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 11:14 PM UTC

jsackmann wrote: post #9

davidw wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I grew up in a mid-sized town several hours away, Eugene? That's where I'm from. > nice climate year-round, Let's be honest, if it were, then it would be inundated with people because it is a nice place in so many other ways. It's not, though, IMO; it's gray and drizzly from October to early summer (and usually stops raining the 5th of July). If people don't mind that, it's a great place, though, although it does t…

Nope, Spokane. High end of "several." "Nice" is probably overstating the climate, but the flip-side is that it's rarely too hot or too cold; you don't usually suffer through the heat+humidity of the eastern seaboard, which probably has something to do with me holding that opinion right this second!

Post by Keyframe » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 11:23 PM UTC

thesethings wrote: post #6

I suspect I have a super different background and interests than the author of this article, but totally agree. I'll start from an arts angle. I really like music, and one of the main reasons I live in Portland is the incredible music scene. Coming from San Francisco, one can see a million reasons why so many bands (and artists) move from SF/Oakland to here. A million more houses with basements, let alone dwellings t…

Post by cschep » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 11:27 PM UTC

jsackmann wrote: post #9

davidw wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I grew up in a mid-sized town several hours away, Eugene? That's where I'm from. > nice climate year-round, Let's be honest, if it were, then it would be inundated with people because it is a nice place in so many other ways. It's not, though, IMO; it's gray and drizzly from October to early summer (and usually stops raining the 5th of July). If people don't mind that, it's a great place, though, although it does t…

Nope, Spokane. High end of "several." "Nice" is probably overstating the climate, but the flip-side is that it's rarely too hot or too cold; you don't usually suffer through the heat+humidity of the eastern seaboard, which probably has something to do with me holding that opinion right this second!