↑ Upside

• Embodies everything that your crazy conservative uncle rants against on Facebook
• Trail Blazers just good enough to instill false hope year after year
• Forest Park offers lazy nature escape with bare minimum of effort
• Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” not official city power ballad
• Strong chance you’re in the band you’re going to see
• Sun shines 365 days a year (if you’re at 30,000 feet)
• Soggy is a state of mind, man

↓ Downside

• Caffeine jitters infectious
• Liberal bubble not yet hermetically sealed
• Slowly transforming itself into Amélie location set
• Oregon unfairly difficult to pronounce, apparently
• Rivers too easily become metaphor for flowing tears
• Brunch lines and political protests increasingly indistinguishable
• After six months here, you need a trigger warning on the rest of the world