‘Katherine’s theory is that everyone looking to make a new life migrates west, across America to the Pacific Ocean.

Once there, the cheapest city where they can live is #Portland.

This gives us the most cracked of the crackpots.

The misfits among misfits.

“We just accumulate more and more strange people,” she says.

“All we are are the fugitives and refugees.”

Chuck #Palahniuk, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon

@JugglingWithEggs I spent a few months in Portland interning at a company there, and the thing I found really shocking was how much people drink. And they drank really weird stuff - not beer or wine like normal people - but the kind of mixed drinks like "singapore sling" that I associate with my parents' post WW2 generation.

Also, an incredible stinginess.