Posts Tagged live in portland
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Living In Portland
Everyday Outside
January 19, 2013 / / This week, Women's Health (in partnership with Men's Health) released their fifth-annual report on the country's "healthiest cities for women". The editors come to these rankings using a fairly wide array of data in 41 categories, including nutrition, cost of living, and cancer rates.
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Living In Portland
My First Time as the Second Degree
November 14, 2012 / / Last night I attended my first 2 Degrees Portland event. 2 Degrees, another program of the Creative Portland Corporation (which also sponsors this website) describes itself as "a sort of 21st century welcome wagon" for those of you who aren't Portlanders yet.
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Living In Portland
Portland Profiled in the Wall Street Journal's "Best Places to Retire"
October 20, 2012 / / The latest "Best Places to Retire" feature in this weekend's Wall Street Journal visits our hometown to interview some local retirees and find out why they moved here. The reasons they cite are the reasons why people of all ages are choosing to live in Portland.
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Living In Portland
Why to Look Forward to the Cold, Dark Months
October 10, 2012 / / There's a low cloud wrapping itself among Portland's streets and buildings today, and it's making autumn's chill decidedly clammy. This morning, for the first time yet this year, I fumbled around in the dark bedroom to dig out my long johns.
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Living In Portland
What I love about Portland: Two Degrees of Separation, not Six
August 21, 2012 / / Editor's note: the following is a guest post from Jennifer Hutchins, the executive director of the Creative Portland Corporation. If the number of Facebook “likes” on my recent post are sufficient proof, I’d venture to guess that I’m not the only Portlander who has had a similar post-cappuccino experience—one that exemplifies why this city is just so damn great.
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Living In Portland
Walkin' round the back of the Bay
June 22, 2012 / / Portland's most heavily used greenspace (and probably its most loved) is not Deering Oaks. Nor the Eastern Prom nor Evergreen Cemetery.
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Living In Portland
Civic Malaise? We're Bowling Together in Portland
April 29, 2012 / / At the turn of the millennium, sociologist Robert Putnam wrote Bowling Alone, which observed that a successful community relies on successful community organizations and civic participation. "Researchers in such fields as education, urban poverty, unemployment, the control of crime and drug abuse, and even health have discovered that successful outcomes are more likely in civically engaged communities," Putnam wrote.
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Living In Portland
Maine is the Country's Most Peaceful State According to United States Peace Index
April 25, 2012 / Portland is a really peaceful city, that's true. But it turns out that of all the States in the U.