# Portland:Oregon or Maine?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 28, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472 "2013-10-28T18:49:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/61 "2014-10-13T13:15:11Z")
I live in the Chicago area and am in the “There’s a Portland, Maine?” camp. Oregon it is.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/62 "2022-07-11T23:46:28Z")
Reviving this zombie once again as I am now officially a Portland to Portland transplant. I just scored an apartment in Portland, OR after living in or near Portland, ME for most of my life.
Move in officially is July 22, but I’m here now.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/63 "2022-07-12T00:02:06Z")
Welcome to Cascadia!
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/64 "2022-07-12T00:43:51Z")
I can’t wait to meet Fred Armisen.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/65 "2022-07-12T00:54:53Z")
Have you already put a bird on it?
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/66 "2022-07-12T06:20:08Z")
Portland, Maine because it was home to Andy Dufresne.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/67 "2022-07-12T13:40:25Z")
I’ve been to Portland, Maine on the way up to Bar Harbor. Had a lobster roll there. Seemed obligatory. Nice little town.
I’ve driven past Portland, Oregon once going from Chehalis, Washington down to Eugene. It was the only spot on I-5 where there was traffic, which did not encourage me to go in and check it out.
I’ll go with Maine.
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/68 "2022-07-12T13:47:42Z")
Same here, the only fact I knew about Oregon was it’s capital, Salem.
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### Author:  [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/69 "2022-07-12T14:01:00Z")
Oregon. I live in Minnesota.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/70 "2022-07-12T14:06:00Z")
Oregon. Been there quite a few times as I live in the Seattle area. Was near there a few weeks ago while on a trip to the Oregon Coast. And I will admit, I have driven to Portland on a couple occasions to make major purchases, did that to avoid sales taxes.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/71 "2022-07-12T19:39:47Z")
Portland OR is just so much larger, has major league teams, etc. Portland ME is just a blip. But …
At one point I had two relatives, siblings, that both lived in Portland. Thousands of miles apart.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/72 "2022-07-12T23:14:36Z")
> [@DCnDC](#):
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> I’ll go with Maine.
Me too. 'Cause I can pump my own damn gas!
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### Author:  [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/73 "2022-07-13T01:09:34Z")
I lived in Portland, Maine, from a July thru that December and broke down on a snowed over Maine Turnpike and got towed to Massachusetts. Maine was said to have only three seasons, Winter, Spring, and Fourth of July!
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/74 "2022-07-13T04:17:34Z")
Close. Winter, Spring & Construction
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### Author:  [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/75 "2022-07-13T04:34:31Z")
My daughter, who lives in Left Coast Portland recently vacationed in Zihuatanejo, just to bring this full circle.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/76 "2022-07-13T05:01:20Z")
Maine barely exists outside of Stephen King novels. So, Oregon.
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/77 "2022-07-13T05:26:07Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> Even _within Washington_, people tend to assume you’re talking about BC if you just say “Vancouver”. Despite Vancouver being the state’s 5th largest city it’s still smaller than, and gets overshadowed by, Portland.
Yes, but if you live in the Portland metro area, Vancouver means the place north of the Columbia. You need to specify BC if you want the johnny-come-lately further north.
OK, lets go with much more obscure locations. I’m not going to make it a real poll because I know the most common answer.
Coos County : Oregon, New Hampshire, or “where the hell are those?”
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/78 "2022-07-13T07:17:16Z")
My parents used to live in Coos County, NH. I’m just all over this thread.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/79 "2022-07-13T09:09:48Z")
Portland, Oregon.
I’m in Ohio, and still would have said Oregon when I lived in NYC.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-oregon-or-maine/672472/80 "2022-07-13T09:46:35Z")
Portland, Oregon. That’s where all the _Wesen_ live.
I’m in South Africa.
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