I have been living in Portland, Oregon now for all of 2.5 days, but what an astonishing time it has been. I’m now doing an internship at Panic, Inc., a small (10 people) Mac software company located in the heart of Portland. I’ll talk about Panic in the future, but right now I’d like to pour out my thoughts about the city itself.

For me, this is the first time I’ve actually lived in a city, and the experience is, well, very different! There are so many types of people here, ranging from the “hipsters” (saw the term on Yelp.com, heh), to the tourists taking pictures left and right, to the beggars asking for money on seemingly-random street corners. It’s both awesome and scary, but it sure makes for some fun people watching :-).

The transition from suburbia to a city obviously carries many challenges, but what I wasn’t expecting is how awesomely convenient it is to live in the middle of literally everything. Within 10 minutes, I can walk to endless restaurants, book stores, coffee shops, companies, parks… basically anything I’d ever need.

I’ll repeat this again, since it still blows my mind. I can walk to all of this, without breaking a sweat. Whoa.

Anyways, more to come in a future post. It’s time for me to continue my hunt for an actual place to live!

- Davey