text: Well I, for one, welcome you to Portland. I'm Mt. Tabor born and bred, and go back far enough to remember when Portland was a bit of a dump. People were leaving, taking their money, energy and brains with them. Now that the city is attracting those assets we once were losing, people are grousing about growth and change. Please. I was there. Portland is waaaaay better now than it ever was back in the 70s and 80s. But the dirty little secret is that most of the people moving to Portland are actually Oregonians, not Californians.