This is kind of like The Onion version of what Portland is like. So far Portlandia has been better than the trailer, leaving me laughing and yelling at the TV, "I know people like that!"

Still the residents of Portland will be happy to hear you say that. Current migration patterns in the US show people from all over America leaving their home states and coming to the Pacific NW. Portlanders are notorious for having a mild dislike of residents who weren't born in Portland and you'll notice the people in this video are actually Californians. I'd say what best sums it up is one blog comment I read that described Oregon as, "California's Canada".

i went to portland once in and three days I went to a wedding where everyone rode bikes, went to a rock concert at an artist "colony", played a Theremin, and slept in a tent in a public park.

I see at least two double-decker bikes every time I go downtown in Portland.

Portland has, and always will be, 10 years behind Seattle...which itself is 5-10 years behind everywhere else.

So in 20 years Portland will be hell on Earth?

Too many notes for you?

Well, kind of. Eugene and Olympia are similar to Portland, but each are definitely different.

Seattle has clumps of Portlandia, if you go to the right neighborhood. The whole swath of the U district to Ballard feels pretty darn similar to Portland in a lot of ways. Other neighborhoods feel completely different.

Alas, there's nothing like it down here in the greater LA area. :-(

Sebastopol up in NorCal feels pretty similar to it (in miniature).

Ashland is pretty Portlandy as well

Oh my stars and garters, another Olympian. Also this show is very nearly the truest thing ever.

Yeah, you could pretty much have set Portlandia in Toronto as well (except everyone in that video is white).

Hi, I live in Providence, RI.