In Anglo-America Portland is a medium-sized city that has a reputation for these sorts of things:
Weird/edgy/hippie culture different from basically everywhere else
Artsy
Nature-y
Bunch of political extremists, but primarily left-wing
In a unique climate zone
Strong, autonomous local identity
Not quite as unfriendly as other cities, but still introverted
Relatively isolated and a little wary of outsiders
Despite its size and isolation, still competes with the big cities in terms of stuff like food quality, access to foreign markets, and infrastructure
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Judging by what you’ve just described, I’ll venture to say that Portland is one of a kind
Probably Ñuñoa
Probably La Condesa or Colonia Roma In Mexico City
Closest I can think is Alto Paraíso de Goiás, but only for the first 3 points
Merida the college city but I don’t think there’s whole that have all those qualities
Sounds like Barranco in Lima.
I’ll guess Palermo
Curitiba probably
Wut???
I was gonna say Conce for Chile, but I always thought Conce had more a Boston vibe in the sense of University life mixing with blue collar middle-class locals. It’s not really hippie or particularly weird, like maybe Valpo can sometimes be.
We are also not autonomous as say, Magallanes region or even Mapuche areas in Araucania might wish to be.
We still identify strongly with Chilean identity first and foremost, but we also do have a bit of a strong local identity as far as Chilean cities are concerned. Your heart never really leaves Conce.
I think that would be El Bolsón, although it’s a town, not really a city.
Panajachel maybe
Fuck!
I think i live there.
Literally nothing thats meets this description lol. Our equivalent of New Orleans, Baltimore, or St. Louis is Port au Prince. Thats all i know.
Don’t forget that Portland is probably the whitest major city in the US.
Sounds toxic. Maybe try Seattle.
>Artsy
>Nature-y
Rio, Salvador, perhaps Olinda (more artsy), perhaps Natal (more nature-y)
>Bunch of political extremists, but primarily left-wing
>In a unique climate zone
>Strong, autonomous local identity
>Not quite as unfriendly as other cities, but still introverted
>Relatively isolated and a little wary of outsiders
Porto Alegre
Sounds like all of the Southern Cone lmao
Loja, Cuenca also counts as long as you don’t consider it a major city. It has less than a million people, so up to you.
They don’t share every single item you mentioned with Portland, but they share more than you’d expect.
For a whole city, Mérida, Yucatán, is probably the closest thing to it in Mexico
Sao Paulo, West side
Except for nature, I’d say Porto Alegre.