Seattle/Portland Areas?

Which city would be best for shopping and a little
sightseeing...Seattle/Tukwila or Portland, Oregon and why?

thanks for any help you can post.
Dwayne

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Which city would be best for shopping and a little
sightseeing...Seattle/Tukwila or Portland, Oregon and why?

Downtown Seattle has more and bigger stores than Portland. Skip Tukwila.

I also think there's more to see in Seattle.

Marianne

In article REIac.1493$Ig.526@pd7tw2no,
"Dwayne" wrote:

Which city would be best for shopping and a little
sightseeing...Seattle/Tukwila or Portland, Oregon and why?

Portland (& Oregon) has no sales tax.....

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:39:29 GMT, Dwayne wrote:
Which city would be best for shopping and a little
sightseeing...Seattle/Tukwila or Portland, Oregon and why?

What are you shopping for? If it makes a difference, Seattle has
sales tax. Portland doesn't. What do you want to see?

http://www.thingstodo.com/states/OR/portland.htm
http://www.bootsnall.com/namericatra...pdx/todo.shtml
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~wuchang/sigc...al/oregon.html
http://www.travelportland.com/event_calendar/

Not the Karl Orff wrote:
In article REIac.1493$Ig.526@pd7tw2no,
"Dwayne" wrote:


Which city would be best for shopping and a little
sightseeing...Seattle/Tukwila or Portland, Oregon and why?


Portland (& Oregon) has no sales tax.....

That's quite true, while Seattle's is over 8.5%. (Had to pay for Paul
Allen's football stadium etc.) Even though I am a Seattleite, I think
Portland is a great town for shopping and sightseeing. A compact,
walkable city, great views of the mountains and the Willamette,
beautiful drives out along the Gorge, and don't miss Powell's Books!!!

No sales tax in Portland and the inner city bus is free.
Good zoo too and the art museum ain't bad either.

Dwayne wrote:

Which city would be best for shopping and a little
sightseeing...Seattle/Tukwila or Portland, Oregon and why?

thanks for any help you can post.
Dwayne

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Totally agree. Portland is a nice nice place! Seattle is great but is
big and suffers from the 'big city' manners or lack thereof.

wrote:


Not the Karl Orff wrote:

In article REIac.1493$Ig.526@pd7tw2no,
"Dwayne" wrote:


Which city would be best for shopping and a little
sightseeing...Seattle/Tukwila or Portland, Oregon and why?



Portland (& Oregon) has no sales tax.....


That's quite true, while Seattle's is over 8.5%. (Had to pay for Paul
Allen's football stadium etc.) Even though I am a Seattleite, I think
Portland is a great town for shopping and sightseeing. A compact,
walkable city, great views of the mountains and the Willamette,
beautiful drives out along the Gorge, and don't miss Powell's Books!!!

mimi wrote:

Downtown Seattle has more and bigger stores than Portland.

I also think there's more to see in Seattle.



Seattle will provide more national/famous chains than Portland.
Portland is better for small, local, specialty boutiques.

Portland is better for relaxing after the whirlwind in Seattle.

Seattle has better air connections, especially coming from east of Denver.
Portland is fine if you're coming from a west coast location (it's been
sheer murder trying to get good flights back east from PDX, for me).

gld