Admittedly, Northwest Portland isn’t experiencing rampant foreclosures but it’s not robber baron territory either. Many of the newcomers are managers at NIKE, Intel and so forth. They’re fitting in nicely with the academics, professionals and artists who are many of the longer term residents.

Another factor is they’re bringing in lots of young kids, which is rejuvenating the neighborhood’s energy (and noise levels). The Northwest toy stores aren’t going to be going broke.

Finally, the neighborhood of White liberals is diversifying — our neighbors on one side is a Hispanic husband, the other side is a Korean wife — both with kids. A few houses down is another Asian woman and across the street is a new Black family. There have always been lots of Jews, I don’t think they count as diversity any more.