New Seasons / NPR

I'm sort of an Oregonian (born there, but never lived there for 7 winters in a row), but my folks and brother are Oregonians. The whole Portland as ideal place to live thing kinda confuses me, rain/grey-ness just gets me down, but culturally Portland seems to have its stuff together. Anyway, there was a cool story about the New Seasons grocery stores in PDX on NPR tonight. I dug that the owner of the stores came to Portland from Chicago, and that he decided to go west to Oregon because his brother had given him a copy of 'Sometimes a Great Notion' by Ken Kesey. Amazing book.