Portland is fine if you want to see the theft of private property (no growth zones) and rulership by an unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic dictatorship called a regional planning commission (soviet socialism). Critics of the People's Republic of Portland rightly call this disaster "strip mall socialism."
Not my cup of tea.
Portland does have its negatives. Traffic is much worse in spite (because?) of all the money they've spent on mass transit. Housing costs have escalated (partly due to the growth boundary). There are way too many stoners. And it's rainy from September to May. But if I could get a good position there in my career, I'd love to move back.