My only hesitation at comparing the two is that as I hinted at above, so much is influenced by where you're at in life, unrelated to city. If I can find a way

My only hesitation at comparing the two is that as I hinted at above, so much is influenced by where you're at in life, unrelated to city. If I can find a way to discuss this abstractly, I for sure will. For now, you can crawl through my HN comments, where I've talked about Portland a bit. Here i did a bit of a comparison of SF/PDX, though it was mostly about Portland: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733073 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733073