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Orange County (if that zoning bill ever gets passed), Austin, Salt Lake City? Probably Portland.

• aphextron 8y ago
  >Orange County (if that zoning bill ever gets passed) lol >Austin Texas. >Salt Lake City Mormons. >Probably Portland. Bingo.
  • sincerely 8y ago
    If "Texas" is a downside for Austin, then surely Portland has the same problem? Isn't the rest of the state strongly conservative? Honestly I doubt it will be a city on the tier of Austin/Portland/Seattle, when San Francisco was still the obvious place to go for people who wanted to do weird things it was much cheaper relatively. The same goes for NYC back when it was a musical/artistic hotspot - living space was much much more affordable than any of these cities.
    • aphextron 8y ago
      >If "Texas" is a downside for Austin, then surely Portland has the same problem? Isn't the rest of the state strongly conservative? It definitely does, but to a lesser extent. Oregon is a reliably blue state because the population is extremely sparse outside of Portland, whereas Austin is just a bubble amid a sea of red. Oregon is also a lot less of the "southern redneck confederate" type, and more of the "libertarian don't tread on me" conservative, which is far more tolerable.