Best place to raise a family???

[mkcking]

Hi everyone,
What are your thoughts on Eugene?

[John Eversoll]

HELLO OREGON, Hey I just want to tell yoou people that you are the BEST and the friendlyest people that I have ever met!I am moving out of this Crappy state of Calif.
I am from "Iowa" orig. We go to Klamath falls every summer and work on our property
it gets harder and harder to come back to this ego unfriendly state. I hope that Next year we can stay I will be soo happy to rip off the blue licence plates of my cars and put on the Oregon PLates. Hope to see everyone that we know this summer. And for the guy that is in Iraq-- COME TO OREGON!!! It is a better way of LIFE!!!!

[sevenpixies]

Let me get a word in about grants pass..... The populaion there is either senior citizens orburn outs and bikers. Its a rough town full of tweekers. Never move there! I lived there myself, and i hated every minute of it. Trust me, you'll get sick of seeing trash evrywhere you go. Can't even go to the park without some lobster guy (guys that wear no shirts all summer and are red from the waste up) wadeing in the water drunk with a beer in his hand telling you the water is fine. Other places to AVOID: Turner, albany, sweet home, lebanon, corvalis, scotts mills, woodburn, mt. angel ... and I'm sure theres more. Oregon is nice, it's beautiful, but it also houses a lot of backwards poeple, trash and drugies. So keep to the nice parts. Watch out for really small towns in the middle of nowhere- you will probably be in for a surprise!

[sevenpixies]

Eugene is nice, but from what i remember from going there as a teen is the millions of hippies and drug scene. Not good. Any college town is going to have more drug problems, so just keep that in mind.

[scoobygold]

check out hillsboro... spring meadows neighborhood has an annual 4th of july bbq and close down the streets. lots of new people due to intel. country living with all the farming... great high school football.

check out portland general electric..or IBEW for work