Brookings, Oregon??

[Givingback]

Just stumbled on this conversation but found it interesting. I am graduating college in six months with a teaching degree and Brookings is going to be at a job fair I am attending. I researched the districts attending and I think that I might be interested in Brookings. I would realish a small, quiet community. I have a nine year old daughter in a wheelchair so we live a very simple quiet way of life. I would love to hear from someone who lives there.

[ladysrodgers]

Originally Posted by Larry Caldwell

Obviously, local teenagers find plenty to do, but the activities are not the sort of thing that an urban Californian would have encountered. Besides the traditional sports, Brookings teens have access to hunting, fishing, rodeo, 4-H, and some astonishing hiking. They can make pretty good money brush picking for the holidays, and summer jobs in the tourist industry are easy to come by.

If you measure "sophisitication" by the number of mall stores you can visit in a week, California has the edge. If you measure it by opportunities to do things, with the room to do them, Brookings is the clear choice. Nothing is going to salvage a couch potato, but a kid with some get up and go will make a good thing out of moving to Brookings.

Brookings is also a meteorological fluke. It is warmer and dryer in Brookings than anywhere else on the north coast. You have to get south of Monterrey to find weather so fine.

4-h, rodeos, hunting and fishing are usually something a So Cal teen is not into, in my experience.

I think the OP would be bored out of her mind in Brookings. I've been there many times, and have friends who live there.

My friends told me they drive to Grants Pass (2 hour drive) to do any department store shopping, because Crescent City doesn't have any decent stores. I know they don't, I've been there many times too - although they do have great seafood.