Though this hardly matched much of the rest of the United States' all American, patriotic, white-picket-fence sensibilities, it nonetheless found its place in large parts of Portland, with its famously anti-consumerist devotees buying up every consumer good on the market, buoyed by trust-funds and meagre earnings from the odd poetry workshop. Of course, Portland also had its famously bohemian lifestyle to advertise itself with a counter-cultural place of beatnik artists, refusing to jive to the squares' rules, with all the coffee shoppes, fashion boutiques and poetry clubs that entailed.
Luxurious hotels, five star restaurants all were to be found in the city. Prior to the Great War the city of Portland was a thriving metropolis enjoying the great boom of prosperity seen following the end of World War II arguably one of the most desirable and modern cities in the United States, it boasted a thriving service and leisure economy unrivalled on the West Coast.
Great War, Mutant War, Oregon Brushfire Wars General Virgo Clark, Caesar Skull-Taker, Jeanine Parkerįree Northwestern Army, Skull-Taker's Legion, Oregon tribals, New Disciples, the Snakebites “ Arms and ammunition are just about the only things that aren't in danger of running out in this place.