tbh been slumming in Portland these past years

got a bit of an immersion in working class culture, through ex-roommates and social circle and just Portland in general

as the city changes thinking a lot of things I liked and attributed to a strong, earthy working class culture were more properly *bohemianism* - the ability to live a more relaxed life by accepting working class material standards and social comparison groups while remaining culturally a/o structurally bougie

and Portland’s changing, maybe more cosseted but less soft. dunno, not sure what my place is now, what I should be going for, or what place I even want tbh