Good expletive riddance.

Let's stop reflecting on the "good old days" (that weren't really all that great) and whining that outsiders moving to town are ruining it for all of us 'real' Portlanders. Portland was never all that cool, and it still isn't all that cool.

"Old Portland"-ers have a serious case of change-phobia. Portland seems like a pretty progressive place (when you totally ignore our disgustingly racist past and present), but Portlanders seem to turn ugly when progress makes them feel like outsiders in their own town. Wake up call: it's not your city, it never has been, and you enjoyed belonging to the culturally dominant group the last few decades due to sheer dumb luck and not some divine right to dictate the city's culture due to your nativity.

Cities all over the country are changing rapidly. Let's be thankful that we're changing more in the SF and Seattle direction of economic growth instead of in the Detroit direction.