Watching my teenage sons and their friends play an impromptu game of “Kick the Condom” along a downtown Portland sidewalk this spring, I was reminded of a fact that few Idahoans can deny.
Nothing terrifies Boise more than being compared to Rip City.
Ever since NPR’s “Here & Now” wondered “Is Boise the next Portland?” in 2017, we developed a phobia. OK, even before that. And not just about Portland’s goofy hipsters, jaw-dropping homeless problem or, um, randomly scattered prophylactics. (The ones we booted were still sealed in wrappers, at least.)…