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Portland is well-known for being cool. Cool in the way that makes you want to dislike it for being trendy but which sees you falling for it anyway because, well, it’s just too cool not to. The temperature in this Pacific Northwest town however, is everything but. The warm summer and mild winters make it an ideal location for roses (which is what earned this green location its nickname: Rose City) and, it would seem, open-minded people. Oregon, the US state in which Portland is located, was one of the first to recognise equal marriage and the all-welcoming vibe even spills into the city’s strip clubs, which I discover are everything but the seedy establishments one might envisage.