Get to Know Portland, OR

Beaverton is technically the second biggest city in Washington County, but is, in all intents and purposes, its largest. (Portland, which holds the top spot, is mostly located in Multnomah County.) In many ways, Beaverton serves as an extension of western Portland, whose boundaries it shares, but Beaverton’s distance from the urban core of Central City give it a more suburban vibe. Unlike other suburbs that exist only as commuter towns, Beaverton has a strong economy of its own, with Nike’s headquarters located nearby in unincorporated Washington County, while the corridor between Beaverton and Hillsboro is known as Silicon Forest and serves as home to Intel, Tektronix, and other tech companies. There are branches of many Portland favorites here, including an outpost of Powell’s Books, as well as a popular food cart pod. Beaverton's residential architecture ranges from mid-century beauties to thoughtfully designed new-development single-family houses.

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Living in Portland, OR

Portland is a city that’s almost close to perfect, an astonishingly beautiful and lush destination that has an incredibly well-defined sense of self. Portland residents are a welcoming bunch and pride themselves on their community spirit, with each neighborhood serving as its own little local village. Sure, Portland’s fondness for analog culture in a digital world might be frequently satirized, but the vintage clothing–clad, kombucha- and craft-beer-drinking denizens of the Rose City are sitting pretty, knowing that they’ve been ahead of the curve in cool for decades. And though Portland has many (many!) record stores, bookstores, and farmers markets (all with the benefit of no sales tax on any purchase), the area does boast its own well-known tech corridor, the Silicon Forest. Portland also has a strong advertising agency scene, where creatives compete for Nike and Adidas accounts, as both rival shoe companies are headquartered in the region.