Portland...gotta love it!

There is a TV show called Portlandia. It's a couple who do a bunch of random skits that show the culture of Portland. You can watch some of their skits on YouTube, and when I first moved here I watched a few of them and laughed and of course assumed that they were exaggerating the truth a bit.
Here is one you need to watch

Funny and ridiculous right? That's what I thought for a while, then one day I was walking down the street and overheard two girls having a similar conversation.

Girl 1: ...and I refused to eat it because they couldn't tell me anything about it. I seriously doubt any of their stuff is local.
Girl 2: I know! That's why you need to try this other place, they do everything local.
Girl 1: Really? Because I refuse to eat any meat unless I know where it's from, what it ate, how it died, and it has to be 100 percent organic and local.
Girl 2: Totally! I can't stand it when....

That's when they turned the corner.

I sat there waiting for the light to turn and wondered how a city not too far on the map seemed like it was from the other end of the universe.