I Stand Where I Live

  I SWIL has become amazed by this story and have found some others, I will post about at a later date.  Now, I wanted to state that I had no idea this was happening in Portland Or. The subject of this article, Oregon is one of only a dozen states where the majority of its residents aren't from there. Each year thousands of 20-somethings move to Portland. The city's entire population is growing, but Portland is still about 80 percent white, making it one of the most homogeneous metropolitan cities in the country. Many of the migrants don't have jobs, kids or a mortgage. So why do they keep coming?

  Oregon economist Christian Kaylor says he can think of only one explanation for the migration into Portland: the quality of life.

 Kaylor says wages there are sometimes 20 percent lower than in Seattle or San Francisco. But people keep coming. In fact, Portland's appeal is part of why the city's unemployment rate tends to be about a point higher than the national average.
  Please, follow the links for more information to the stories in this blog post as found in the NPR.