Where's the A2 Love?

I was very disgruntled when I found out today that the movie version of Charles Baxter's novel, Feast of Love, has moved its setting from here in Ann Arbor to Portland, Oregon.

What the hell!?

Feast of Love is a stunner of a book, if you have not read it you should get your hands on a copy, well, now. It's a (very) loose retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream that functions as a valentine to love, yes, but also to Ann Arbor, where Baxter was a professor when he wrote it. The city is as much a character in the book, with as vital a heart, as any of the human characters. For those who haven't read the book, it would be like making a movie of A Tale of Two Cities and changing the cities to St. Louis and Duluth. I mean in the opening scene one of our protaganists who is suffering from insomnia and walking the night streets witnesses a couple making love on the field of the Big House (University of Michigan's football stadium for those non Big 10 folks). Now I am sure Portland has many fine attractions but they do NOT have the Big House.

I repeat

What the hell?