Walk down a major street of an actual city and this kind of WeIRrrRrrD stuff is all over the place.
Portland is essentially a retirement community with good food and strip clubs where all the girls with college educations that can't find a job have to work at because there's no actual jobs here unless you work at Wyden Kennedy, Razorfish, Intel, or Nike.
That being said if you want to raise children or retire somewhere, it's a nice place.