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| User: | pdxbychoice (10526452) |
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| Name: | Portlanders by Choice | ||
| About: | We love Portland. We love it so much that we chose to live here. We love that it has been home to so many writers, musicians, actors, and artists, such as: Obo Addy, born in Ghana Art Alexakis, born in Los Angeles Jean M. Auel, born in Chicago Mel Blanc, born in San Francisco Katherine Dunn, born in Kansas City, Kansas Todd Haynes, born in Encino, California Joe Hill, born in Gästrikland, Sweden Miranda July, born in Barre, Vermont Thomas Lauderdale, from Indiana Ursula K. Leguin, born in Berkeley Courtney Love, born in San Francisco Stephen Malkmus, born in Santa Monica Chuck Palahniuk, born in Pasco, Washington Greg Rucka, born in San Francisco Joe Sacco, born in Malta Elliott Smith, born in Omaha William Stafford, born in Hutchinson, Kansas Gus Van Sant, born in Louisville, Kentucky Lindsay Wagner, born in Los Angeles Minor White, born in Minneapolis There are also the creative from elsewhere in the state who came to Portland to make their marks: Beverly Cleary, born in McMinnville Will Vinton, born in McMinnville Oregons notable politicians have included: Neil Goldschmidt, born in Eugene Mark Hatfield, born in Dallas, Oregon John Kitzhaber, born in Colfax, Washington Ted Kulongoski, born in Missouri Tom McCall, born in Massachusetts Vera Katz, born in Düsseldorf, Germany Oregon's poet laureate Ben Hur Lampman was born in Wisconsin, and our city would look rather different without Portland architects A.E. Doyle, born in Santa Cruz, and Pietro Belluschi, born in Ancona, Italy. And all of us on LJ owe something to Livejournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick, who grew up in Oregon but was born in Iowa. And even if you can't pronounce them all, there are the Portlanders who gave their names to local streets and landmarks: Simon Benson, born in Norway John H. Couch, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts Rodney Glisan, born in Frederick County, Maryland Henry Failing, born in New York Asa Lovejoy, from Boston Francis Pettygrove from Portland, MAINE There are many great reasons to live here, the least interesting or important of which is having been born here. This community is for all of us who have chosen to live here for its culture and quality of life, rather than because we could still do laundry for free at mom's house. | ||
| Interests: | 6: californication, gentrification, living here intentionally, portland, real estate inflation, transplants | ||
| Maintainers: | 1: mitdasein | ||
| Members: | 61: 7leaguebootdisk, _allesinside, androshd, auburnraven, bellehiver, boycott_mtv, browse, burntblueseason, catamorphism, cheekyassmonkey, cynaguan, dana_pants, elric_dewisant, emilytbm, entheos93, evamarie85, expatriate, fiercerose, foolishgirl5239, frankie_cat, girljas, jalo_lalo, jennylin, jes5199, jessecoombs, jfboyd, jimmycarter, kellidunham, krazyfelioness, lasardth, leeloodallasx, letsmakebelieve, lindsaytheho, lindseykuper, literal_lemon, manfrommumbai, meisterdorf, metathing, mitdasein, momagon, mr_sunyata, nevafeva, pdxrealestate, phoenixtx, popjellyfish, portlandish, prettymuchjulia, remix79, sexlessfaggot, snatchbeast, sorceress_jade, splattworld, sweetadeleine, tempering, terebi_me, uberlilith, vicfitz82, xauenmurph | ||
| Watched by: | 51: _allesinside, androshd, bellehiver, boy_asunder, browse, burntblueseason, catamorphism, cheekyassmonkey, cynaguan, elric_dewisant, emilytbm, entheos93, evamarie85, expatriate, fiercerose, foolishgirl5239, frankie_cat, girljas, jalo_lalo, jennylin, jes5199, jessecoombs, jfboyd, jimmycarter, kellidunham, krazyfelioness, lasardth, leeloodallasx, letsmakebelieve, lindsaytheho, literal_lemon, manfrommumbai, meisterdorf, metathing, momagon, mr_sunyata, nevafeva, pdxrealestate, popjellyfish, portlandish, postpunkjustin, prince_cosmic, remix79, sorceress_jade, splattworld, sweetadeleine, tempering, terebi_me, uberlilith, vicfitz82, xauenmurph | ||
| Account type: | Basic Account | ||
