Portland is the eighth best place to celebrate Christmas in 2020, according to a new study from WalletHub.
WalletHub is unfortunately wrong with this.
There is only one best place to celebrate Christmas this year and that is your home, be it in Portland, Medford or Bangor, Maine.
That’s because Oregon, the country, and the world are all still dealing with the global coronavirus pandemic. It doesn’t matter how great our Christmas tree farms are! You have to stay home this year!
It’s not that the company doesn’t recognize the COVID complications of the vacation. The first measure they cite when they list Portland’s place in the rankings is our average per capita COVID-19 cases over the past week. We are apparently in sixth place in this.
Of course it is nice that we are less bad with COVID than in some other places, but still it says: the best and actually the only place to spend Christmas this year is your own home, in your own city, surrounded by your loved one family.
So while we appreciate WalletHub’s nice shout-out, let’s all just stay home this year so we can maybe meet up next year at Christmas destination # 1 – Durham, North Carolina. Or actually anywhere. I have a feeling that we will all be traveling next year.
– Lizzy Acker
503-221-8052, [email protected], @lizzyacker