yea, it's a weird melting ground of the mountain folk (yakolt, battleground, etc), methheads, and hipster douchebags who's parents have alot of money. but really, the fact that nightlife here is almost nonexistant (save for the above mentioned crappy bars with lifeless people) and metropolitan life booming over in pdx, there leaves a great divide between pdx'ers and 'couvers. during the election it was funny to drive from downtown portland, seeing only obama ads everywhere, and then cross the river and slowly start to see mccain more and more, until you hit battleground/north vancouver where obama ads where maybe 1 in 8.