It's a really solid post. And it's dead on about the pluses and minuses of Portland. Well done.
as a Portlander myself, I would agree entirely. Many of the individuals in tech industry here are from CA and came here to live not work. Though I found you can have a successful startup and a good life as well. Just balance and in PDX you are more or less forced to balance.
I'm on the East Coast and don't know much about Portland, but I enjoy "think different" posts on HN a lot, so this really grabbed me.