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Old 07-18-2006, 12:19 AM
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Default Aloha, OR

My husband, son and myself are looking to relocate to Aloha, OR. Please tell me about this city and what I have to look forward to. I'm originally from Hawaii but raised in Southern California. I currently live in the Inland Empire where it is very hot in the summers and cold in the winters. I like rain, but DO NOT LIKE SNOW. Your feedback is appreciated! Mahalo!!

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Old 07-18-2006, 02:10 AM
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My husband, son and myself are looking to relocate to Aloha, OR...I'm originally from Hawaii...
Yeah...like we haven't heard that one before...

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Old 07-18-2006, 03:01 AM
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Yeah...like we haven't heard that one before...
Now now Stevey. I did live in Oregon till them cal a phooies moved in and made cal a phony out of it. I now live in Hawai'i, mo better, eh..

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Old 07-18-2006, 03:13 AM
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looking to relocate to Aloha, OR. Mahalo!!
Aloha,
I think Aloha is in one of them Banana belts one finds west of Portland.
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Portland, Portland-Hillsboro Airport, OR, United States (KHIO) 45-32-53N 122-57-16W 68M
Jul 17, 2006 - 05:53 PM EDT / 2006.07.17 2153 UTC
Wind: from the N (350 degrees) at 7 MPH (6 KT):0
Visibility: 10 mile(s):0
Sky conditions: clear
Temperature: 73.9 F (23.3 C)
Dew Point: 48.0 F (8.9 C)
Relative Humidity: 39%
Pressure (altimeter): 30.24 in. Hg (1024 hPa)

Aloha post office was established on January 8,1912. It was supposedly named by Robert Caples, a railroad man, but the reason for the name was unknown. In 1983, Joseph H. Buck of King City informed the compiler that his uncle, Julius Buck, was the first postmaster and that he named the office Aloah after a small resort on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. During the application process the last two letters were transposed by the Post Office Department, resulting in the shift from a Midwestern Indian name to a Hawaiian word. The Buck family had come to Oregon from Wisconsin in 1907 and settled west of Beaverton. An 1894 atlas shows a small community named Alloa in Wisconsin about 30 miles north of Madison, but Joseph Buck said that this name had no connection.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html for weather.

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Old 07-19-2006, 06:13 PM
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My husband, son and myself are looking to relocate to Aloha, OR. Please tell me about this city and what I have to look forward to. I'm originally from Hawaii but raised in Southern California. I currently live in the Inland Empire where it is very hot in the summers and cold in the winters. I like rain, but DO NOT LIKE SNOW. Your feedback is appreciated! Mahalo!!

I don't know if this will help since I haven't been to Aloha for many years, but it's a suburb of Portland, actually it used to be kind of a suburb of Beaverton, but it's probably grown in the last 20 years just like all the west-of-Portland suburbs have. Aloha was kind of a small, middle class area with decent schools. It was the buffer between the "nice" Beaverton and the "not too nice" Hillsboro. The weather is typical Portland area weather, which means warm summers that last into September, colorful fall, wet and gray winters and springs. We rarely get snow. Summers are often in the 80s and slightly humid, but probably not as moist as Hawaii.

Aloha has strip malls and movie theaters and the major chain stores. Like I said, I haven't been there for many years so I don't know if it's changed significantly since I hung around there. Maybe that's not much help. Just remember that the "h" in "Aloha" is silent.

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Old 07-21-2006, 10:43 AM
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I used to live smack in the middle of Aloha, from the time i was 5-til 15. It has grown quite a bit, kinda got eaten up by Beaverton and Hillsboro imo. I think you can find a pretty wide range of home prices there and Id suggest moving on either more rural area or towards the Beaverton side rather than Hillsboro.
and as for weather, its like most of Oregon. drizzly/gray often, few days of triple digits scattered in, and i remember it snowing there at least a little every winter. - youre not gonna get the 4ft high snowpacks, but enough to have a snowball fight most likely.
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ps - we're still in Ore, but looking to move to Texas!

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Old 08-21-2006, 02:55 AM
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I'll tell ya one thing about Aloha, if you move there your in the presence of the best italian restaraunt in oregon, nonna emilias!

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Old 09-03-2006, 04:25 PM
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My daughter and her family live in Aloha and love it there. The schools are better than Hillsboro. Housing is about the same, price-wise, as Beaverton. Really, if you're driving down the major highways through town (Hwy 8 and Hwy 10) you won't even know when you've left Hillsboro for Aloha, or left Aloha for Beaverton. It's all one mass of suburb. LOTS of strip malls - that's about all there is along the highways. The residential areas are pretty decent. My daughter is willing to commute almost an hour to work each day because they like the schools so much. Personally, I couldn't live there. We live in the small town of Yamhill (pop 700), which is about 15 miles S of Forest Grove. Totally different world. Though it's changing even here. We're in the heart of "wine country" which is bringing in more housing developments and tourism, with both positive and negative effects on the local communities.

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