Interesting article, but they could have said what they wanted to say in 1/3 the number of words. When we visited Portland a couple years ago, my wife's comment

Interesting article, but they could have said what they wanted to say in 1/3 the number of words. When we visited Portland a couple years ago, my wife's comment was "gritty city with low-quality housing stock and no obvious economic base". I said "everyone is in the business of selling food and beer to everyone else". I vote bubble.