Portland is known all over the world as a food city. Come on. People literally

travel here from all over North America on vacation just to eat. The first

time that I ever heard the word foodie was when I moved into Portland. In fact,

I remember when I first moved here, what shocked me was not the naked bike ride

or the guy with bagpipes breathing fire or even that like communism is still a

thing that people are in to. That was not what rocked my faith. What shocked me

coming from like a background where you know you are responsible with your money

is it's a weird you never it's a thing. Don't worry about it. Is how much money

people spend eating out all the time? That I just remember I was like Gerald you

spend how much money like you eat out more than twice a year seriously. Like the

Portland thing is you live in this tiny little kind of cool but kind of ghetto

apartment with no furniture and and you drive like a 90s beat up sedan

preferably made by Subaru maybe Toyota if you're like newer or you're right

of bicycle but it's not because you don't have money you have money it's because

you blow all of your money on eating out and it's coffee and a pastry for

breakfast and a food cart for lunch and then drinks with colleagues after work

and you hit a new spot for dinner and then a little night caps somewhere maybe

back at home if you're into a scotch or whatever you know welcome to Portland and

you know we claim we have more restaurants per capita than any other city in the

world I have no idea if that is true or not either way it would take you year

years just to eat your way through this city but even outside of Portland

America is known all over the world that's a place where three meals a day is the

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