Portlandia, take note. Portland is becoming a popular destination for a larger segment that just those youngsters looking for the ideal place to retire. Maybe it's Karma that our city with early adopters for hybrid cars and "green" or high-performance buildings, with an ethos for bikes and public transit instead of cars is also in the region of the country that some climate experts believe will be least impacted by global warming.
Whether it's severe storms, drought, interruptions in the water supply, flooding and rising sea levels, heat waves, or other related consequences of rising global temperatures, it appears that Washington and Oregon will be relatively unscathed.
To read more about this study, check out the story at OPB, or Cliff
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