Economy
Portland: Hardly 'A Retirement Community for the Young'
Hey, New York Times: Portland happens to outshine many U.S. cities in entrepreneurship, job growth, productivity—and the elusive "second paycheck."
Portland: <Insert hipster paradise joke here>. The city has been the subject of years of fawning national press coverage that treated it as a terminally cute cultural nirvana. Even send-ups like IFC's "Portlandia" have shown love for its flaky charms. Finally, though, has come the Serious Journalism Takedown: In Tuesday's New York Times article "Will Portland Always Be a Retirement Community for the Young?,” ex-Portlander Claire Cain Miller yanks back the curtain.
With Matthew Hale—a bearded, skateboard-riding kombucha drinker—as her main character, Miller claims that “Portland has become a city of the overeducated and underemployed—a place where young people are, in many cases, forced into their semi-retirement."