Should Portland Welcome the Southern Menace—a.k.a. Californians?
UPSIDE
In-N-Outs for everyone!
“Hella” ripe for a postironic comeback
Creating more affordable housing by redefining what’s affordable
The Cascadia Subduction Zone demands sacrificial victims
Will continue Portland’s time-honored tradition of displacing inconveniently located communities
Can hopefully teach Oregon natives the zipper merge
Baldwins still moving here at manageable rate of only one per decade
Old Portland has never looked better since they started coming
You can pry Oakland native Damian Lillard from our cold, dead hands
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DOWNSIDE
Unsustainable strain on city’s Abercrombie & Fitch stores
We’ll ban them just until we figure out what‘s going on
Distracting us from the real enemy: the secessionist regime in Olympia. Retake Northern Oregon!
Xenophobia is kind of a civic brand at this point
Only if they bring enough trust fund for everyone
#pdxit now
If we pretend we’re not here, maybe they’ll just go away
OK, seriously, we can take two more but that’s it
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Photograph courtesy Shutterstock/Joseph Sohm, digitally altered by Portland Monthly
