Portland

Pros: Lots to do, beautiful art everywhere, easy to navigate, good for all ages
Cons: Weather can be extra wet

  Portland is a wonderful city.  There are so many fun and unique things to be doing that it is easy to stay busy.  Whether you are traveling to Portland with your children or you are a resident of the Rose City there is always some ...

Pros: No shortage of fun things to do for both the young and old.
Cons: well, Portland is known for rain!

My kids and I do a lot of traveling together and I've quickly learned that my favorite destinations are not necessarily my kid's favorites. Fortunately, we all agree that Portland is a kid-friendly city with lots of places to keep the young and the ...

Pros: Sit down joints that range from fresh and homemade to greasy spoon goodness.
Cons: Need a fix of Fatburger or In & Out? Keep driving.

I moved to Portland from a city that you could walk into any bar at any time of the day or night and find a great tasting burger with fries for under 5 bucks. Portland, still torn between it's need to be all things to all people, and the vegan capital ...

Pros: Fine if you have lived here for decades.
Cons: Delusional for most transplants.

As a born-and-raised Portlander I have to say I recall and miss the days of Keno's markets Tom Peterson's late night specials on KPTV 12 during Saturday night wrestling. Most of the reviews here seem unhelpful and uninformative at best, although I did ...

Pros: Comforting; great walking downtown; good food
Cons: Rain; people are generally introverted

Grew up there. Saw it grow from a Big Small Town to a Small Big City. The city itself, as pointed out by other reviewers, is surprisingly "comforting" (and this is not simply b/c I grew up there). From Powells where you can read a book in peace, to ...

Pros: Friendly People, Big City Attractions, Near The Oregon Coast
Cons: Bad Drivers, Portland Police, Dirty Rivers

I've lived in the Northwest for most of my life, I grew up in Spokane, WA and I've lived in the Vancouver, WA/Portland, OR area for about 6 years now. I spend about 60% of my free time in Portland even though I live across the Columbia River in ...

Pros: It is as close to Eden as you will find in urban america.
Cons: You will find it difficult to leave.

This is the place to be. Portland is the single most livable city in the United States, bar none. I have traveled all around this great nation, and seen all of its great cities. From the Boston Common, to McArthur Park, from Central Park, to Buckhead ...

Pros: Location, laid-back attitude, and weather (for half the year, anyway).
Cons: Self-congratulatory, insular, and increasingly prone to all the traditional big-city flaws.

Not in my backyard. Face it: we all suffer from it. Even the most idealistic campus crusader for, I dunno, Guatemalan baby seals, has it. Regardless of how we might stump for this or that political or social cause, at the end of the day, when ...

Pros: Safety; coziness; culture; cuisine; natural setting
Cons: Rainy season; wish it was closer to the ocean.

Portland could have been called Boston. Apparently, the two pioneers, one from Boston, the other one ...

Pros: Sedate, but interesting. Diverse set of attractions. Friendly people.
Cons: Rain. Ubiquitous coffee houses, fleece, and slackers/hipsters. Sprawl and overpopulation.

I love my hometown, so as Tom McCall (former Oregon governor) once said, "Welcome to Oregon, come back soon." Portland has experienced major growing pains from a rapid influx of Californians over the past several years. Our infrastructure is crumbling,...

Pros: Clean, well-managed city. Charming downtown and wonderfully pretty surroundings. Friendly, easy-going people.
Cons: It may rain... but so what?? At least you don't have to shovel it...

I have to be honest. Before being transferred to Portland a few years ago, there was not much I knew about the city. As soon as I moved there, I fell completely in love with the city and with the area around it. I have lived and traveled all over the...

Pros: Definitely "the city that works"; Near to recreational parks/Columbia River
Cons: Winter attractions greatly diminished

I arrived in Portland, OR by the Nationwide Greyhound Bus Lines at 4:30 am in the morning. Crazy it may sound, I had no other choice because of the limited schedules of attractions in the city/region. Inititally, my sister and I plan to take a cab (which...

Pros: Wonderful Hotel and restaurants
Cons: not that we could find

We have stayed in Portland a number of times and we are always looking for a the best deals and the best place. Therefore, we have tried a different downtown hotel (we like staying downtown, with Portland's incredible transit system, we can go anywhere...

Pros: There are no good points to Portland, Oregon. Please stay away. Unless you are visiting!
Cons: Increased traffic due to people coming to visit and MOVING HERE!

I am a Portland, Oregon NATIVE. I have webbed feet, I don't tan - I rust; I call rain "liquid sunshine" and still think it's cute; I take lush green grass for granted and rainbows barely thrill me; I think that driving a mere 1.5 hours to the beach,...

Pros: Lots of outdoors things to do !
Cons: rain in the winter

I have lived in Portland for twelve years. Sure it rains a lot but during the summer it is in the 70's almost everey day. So if you come come in late June.
STUFF TO DO
You can go to the Oregon zoo which is about...