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Old 06-10-2015, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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Don't count on water here either. We have our own drought. By the end of the summer, the Willamette will be nothing but a tepid trickle. All the tributary dams are empty and there is no snow pack to feed the rivers.
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Old 06-11-2015, 02:13 PM
 
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I think Larry's trying to discourage us from moving to his fine state.
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Old 06-11-2015, 02:29 PM
 
Location: North Idaho
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Oregon weather is extremely variable. We don't have any "typical" weather. The weather does what the weather wants to do without any input about what humans want.

Weather depends upon what the currents in the Pacific are doing. Whatever the weather is, we've had it before and we will have it again, and the weather will be the opposite at some point, maybe as soon as tomorrow.
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Old 06-11-2015, 02:30 PM
 
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I think Larry's trying to discourage us from moving to his fine state.
Nope he is absolutely right. Lived in Oregon 14 years. When I tell people not to move here, I'm not doing it because I don't want them to ruin it. It's already ruined, and I don't want them to ruin their lives by moving to a state with bad weather, unfriendly people and an impossible economy.
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Old 06-11-2015, 02:44 PM
 
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I don't want them to ruin their lives by moving to a state with bad weather, unfriendly people and an impossible economy.
None of that scares me....I live in Maine.
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Old 06-11-2015, 02:50 PM
 
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None of that scares me....I live in Maine.
Maine even has its own Portland, hell!
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Old 06-11-2015, 03:03 PM
 
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Yes. I live about 20 miles north of Portland, Me.

BTW, I lived in CA for 20 odd years before moving back to New England. Glad we came back for my kids and the schools, but am hoping to spend the last half of my life on the west coast. I know the drought is bad in CA now. Even during regular years, I always hated that my lawn was crunchy by May. I also didn't care for day after day of sunshine.

I actually like rain. I even like snow (just not 6 months of it.) I like seasons. I'm hoping Oregon will be a good fit. We've got a few more years to think about it, so we'll see.

P.S. I also like your user name, Mini-apple-less.
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Old 06-11-2015, 03:08 PM
 
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Yes. I live about 20 miles north of Portland, Me.

BTW, I lived in CA for 20 odd years before moving back to New England. Glad we came back for my kids and the schools, but am hoping to spend the last half of my life on the west coast. I know the drought is bad in CA now. Even during regular years, I always hated that my lawn was crunchy by May. I also didn't care for day after day of sunshine.

I actually like rain. I even like snow (just not 6 months of it.) I like seasons. I'm hoping Oregon will be a good fit. We've got a few more years to think about it, so we'll see.

P.S. I also like your user name, Mini-apple-less.
Thanks! I agree with you, I hate overly dry weather too! I'd rather it rain a bit every couple days year-round like it does back east. I think if you're happily single or retired/empty nested Oregon and Washington are not as bad as they are for people with children and Millennials like myself who are just starting adult life. I wish you luck! I'd suggest Eugene, Portland's western suburbs (not Tigard though), or maybe Corvallis (though it's expensive there) or Albany, by the way.
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Old 06-11-2015, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Wasilla, AK
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Meanwhile I look like a genius for living in Alaska. I'm staying one step ahead of global warming!!
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Old 06-11-2015, 04:49 PM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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I think Larry's trying to discourage us from moving to his fine state.
I was talking to someone who is already here. We're already in a pretty severe drought. If you live in Portland, have you looked at Mt. Hood lately? No snow cap. It's ash gray, and that's the tallest mountain around. Did Government Camp ever open for skiing last winter?

They opened the north entrance to Crater Lake in April, which I have never even heard of before. Normally the snow plows would be trying to get it open for the 4th of July, along with the parts of Rim Drive that go over 8000 feet. This year there's just no snow.

In Washington, the Olympic Range only has 17% of normal snow pack, and Mt. Baker is about the same. The drought doesn't stop at the California border, it's the whole west coast.
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