What is the downside to living in Oregon? (Portland, Eugene: transplants, Home Depot)

[freedom]

Originally Posted by jjpop

After what is widely regarded as one of the most productive legislative sessions in recent memory, let's hear it for abnormality!!!

That is part of the problem, they actually think it was productive, rather than destructive

[tenacity]

We are looking to move to Oregon and or maybe Washington and could use a little help. If you know of any quaint little towns or cities that haven't gone ballistic.. we could use some ideas.

We are Californians being pushed out by development. We have horses and raise Boer & Nubian goats.

We are retiring and looking for a small town, trees are important, wind less than 20 mph, has 4-H or FFA , I do therapy on horses and teach dog obedience, we'd like to be within 30 min. of a hospital and prefer a drier climate to the wet climate.
I've never lived in the snow.. so I would probably not want more than a couple of feet.

I'm not real familiar with Oregon other than driving through, so any help we would appreciate.
We shop at Trader Joes and eat mostly organic..

We are planning a visit the end of Sept to the Sisters area and will be looking around. If anyone has any ideas or wants to share an area they think we should look at.. that would be appreciated.

[freedom]

Tenacity,

Have you looked into Cottage Grove, or other cities around Eugene?

[tenacity]

No not yet.. I see it's on the I-5.. someone told us that all along the I-5 they get 40" of rain a year.. is that true?

[PNW-type-gal]

Originally Posted by tenacity

No not yet.. I see it's on the I-5.. someone told us that all along the I-5 they get 40" of rain a year.. is that true?

That's not true in almost any part of Oregon. I think there might be a very rain-forest-y section out on the coast that gets that much.

[tenacity]

Because of my allergies.. we have to stay in somewhat of a dry climate. No more than 20 inchs of rain a year.

I grew up in Sacramento.. when we moved to southern Claif. I stopped purchasing Sudafed, Feverfew and other products for allergies. the drier climate made the difference. We get 17" normally here. This year it was 4".

So, far it's been hard to research horse communities. I'm also noticing that Oregon is taking on Calif. prices. Wow!

Non-Clustered homes and communites where neighborhoods are comprised of 5 and 10 acre parcels are what we are looking for. preferably less than 7,000 people. Do they still exist in Oregon?

[orygun]

If you need dry than you will have to go east of the Cascades. Bend, Redmond or NE Oregon maybe. Or maybe Medford. But the drier climate usually has less trees. Just depends on where you go. In central Oregon you will probably get more wind. 40 inches of rain is what used to be said about Portland.

[Rosa canina]

Downside to Oregon---um, the term Californians comes to mind.

LOL jk

Tenacity, the Bend area would be a good place for you to look into.

[tenacity]

We've heard that it's best not to say your from California. The good thing for Oregon is that some of us who are moving there are horse people and we don't want to live in clustered housing. 5-20 acres apart.. sounds better to us. We have livestok, flies and you might get manure on your shoes.. but that is the way we like it. so I would think that we would be a good neighbor to someone in a small town of Oregon.

Thanks for the input...

[elcapitan]

I hate having to wait for some ex-convict to finish his cigarette before he starts pumping my gas. Yes, sometimes its nice to not have to get out of the car, when you are in a hurry it is rather cumbersome when you could just get it done yourself in .25 of the time.

Just yesterday, we were at Chevron, and the attendant said it would be a 10 minute wait for gas because they had to change shifts on the computer. Ridiculous.