What Seattle Really Thinks About Portland
January 6th, 2011Seattle writer Claire Dederer, guest-blogging this week for Powell’s, expresses her love for our city’s “strange atmosphere of industrious leisure” and casts the Seattle/Portland dynamic in new terms: “Up here in Seattle, we… well, we hate you. We hate you for being cooler than us, and for having better restaurants.”
Ahh, but what would Cliff Poncier say?
For an earlier (and slightly different) expression of one Seattleite’s enthusiasm for Portland, here’s a clip — featuring Matt Dillon and the gents from Pearl Jam — from Cameron Crowe’s 1992 film Singles.
