Portland

Portland gets two thumbs up...there is bicycle traffic, flourishing greenspace, beautiful flowerfilled neighborhoods with cool old houses that have the lazy front porch you always wanted, artsy crafty hippie eco types, beautiful smiles, youthful energy, tattoos and piercings and pierced tattoos, bike shops that are booked out a whole week for repairs!, Tibetan prayer flags everywhere, Laurelhurst park (where I have killed numerous hours every day in the past week), farmer's markets everyday of the bloody week (it is berry season!), Hawthorne street where you can sell whatever you have to sell or play your instrument as loud as you want, and Waffle Window, cranking out waffles for the masses who look so cheery lining up to enjoy their non-vegan waffles. Portland: the non-city.