This week the benevolent giant of tech gave a holiday hug to the little people by promising them free wifi at more than 40 airports across the country for the holiday travel season.

Pardon me while I yawn. You see I live in Portland which just happens to have the best airport in the, well, there’s no point in dancing around this, Portland International Airport is the best in the world.

Know how I know? Our airport code is PDX. And it’s fully embraced by Portlanders as the city’s shorthand. Not the area code, not something grandiose like “The City” or ironic like Frisco, it’s PDX baby.

Portland has had free wifi throughout its terminals since before it was cool. And those terminals? Are airy, spotless and dotted with fantastic shops and great restaurants. You’ve got a newsstand at your hometown airport? We’ve got Powell’s Books, maybe you’ve heard of it. You’ve got a Chili’s? We’ve got a Rogue Ales Public House. You have Pizza Hut? We’ve got Pizzicato and Pizza Schmizza’s Portland’s own gourmet versions of tasty slice slingers.

And sure, PDX is rife with Starbucks, but it’s also got the final outpost of Coffee People, the truly great Portland coffee chain that sadly succumbed to the overlords of corporate caffine.

And thanks to airport regulations, vendors are required to charge the same prices to weary travelers that they’d charge to anybody else. No price-gouging $5 bottles of water. And like everywhere else in the great state of Oregon, there’s no sales tax.

So forgive Portlanders as we roll our eyes at the promise of free wifi for a few weeks. It’s only because PDX ROX.

Christina Williams has lived in Portland for six years — and she still has a crush on it.