Anyone live in oregon? What am I missing?

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i know mit does and i&#x27;ll ask him separately.  just got back from a little vacation there.  the place was great.  why don&#x27;t i live there?  it was very nice and had a lot of attractions (the coast, mountains, skiing, rafting, sports, hiking, biking, wineries, etc).  very good restaurants.  the weather couldn&#x27;t have been better.  i know it rains a lot but for late july, there was no humidity and it was in the high 70&#x27;s during the day.  in the south and many places, the weather this time of year is brutal.  you can&#x27;t hardly go outside for  4 months.  no sales tax.  no church on every corner.  seems like a lot of advantages similar to california but without the ridiculous cost of living and other problems.  of course, the weather isn&#x27;t as good and one glaring negative were that the chicks were largely banged up but i guess i can deal with that at this point, although i don&#x27;t want this to be interpreted as an insignificant factor by any means.  what&#x27;s the downside to this place?

ClubDirt · Answer

i know mit does and i&#x27;ll ask him separately.  just got back from a little vacation there.  the place was great.  why don&#x27;t i live there?  it was very nice and had a lot of attractions (the coast, mountains, skiing, rafting, sports, hiking, biking, wineries, etc).  very good restaurants.  the weather couldn&#x27;t have been better.  i know it rains a lot but for late july, there was no humidity and it was in the high 70&#x27;s during the day.  in the south and many places, the weather this time of year is brutal.  you can&#x27;t hardly go outside for  4 months.  no sales tax.  no church on every corner.  seems like a lot of advantages similar to california but without the ridiculous cost of living and other problems.  of course, the weather isn&#x27;t as good and one glaring negative were that the chicks were largely banged up but i guess i can deal with that at this point, although i don&#x27;t want this to be interpreted as an insignificant factor by any means.  what&#x27;s the downside to this place?

HutchEmAll · Answer

Only down side from people I&#x27;ve talked to is the weather.  People rave about it otherwise.

JEFFMARKETCAP · Answer

Tsunami zone?

I_Need_A_Detox · Answer

I stayed in Ashland a few years ago. Loved it. On the golf courses I saw more deer than people.

ClubDirt · Answer

hutch, the weather could not have been better this week. i know it's just one week but just the fact that high 70's with no humidity is even a possibility is a huge selling point. where i am, mid 90's with a lot of humidity is about the bnest you can hope for for june, july and august. it's the worst. rain every third day can't be worse than that.

jeff, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunami's, tornadoes, there's always going to be something.

THEMUGG · Answer

For about 3-4 months a year the NW is tough to beat.

ClubDirt · Answer

mugg, the same is true here. spring and fall are awesome. it's the 4 months in the middle of the year that are torture. i'll send you a friend request. i want to ask you about where you live.

onarush · Answer

Some people go there to die....&#xD;&#xA; this doc floored me right out of the gate...https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1715802/&#xD;&#xA;No seriously though my brother spent some time up there growing, loved it.... He&#x27;s what some people would call a "free spirit"

kickinA · Answer

Other than Oregon being a meth country, it's tough to beat if you don't mind the rain and overcast sky for about 8 months of the year.

Love Eugene, Oregon......some of my best vacation memories were spent up there. Of course, these were in the summer.

rated91 · Answer

When you say the chicks were "banged up" can you elaborate a little further? This could be a major deal breaker for me in ever visiting that area.

Mxsixaplix · Answer

As a lifelong Oregonian you will definitely get sick of all the rain.

ClubDirt · Answer

kickin, there was actually an article about that in the paper while i was there. oregon is one of two states that made pseudoephedrine a prescription drug and apparently meth use has declined a lot. but that's not an issue for me. i live in the south where meth labs are part of the original equipment of every trailer and there are no shortage of trailers.

rated, maybe i saw a bad sample but i saw a lot of chicks and most of them were pretty rough. it stood out. if you are young and traveling, that obviously should be the number one criterion for any trip you might take so this area would require more research. on the other hand, when i watch oregon games on tv, the chicks are pretty hot. maybe it's just portland.

mx, i've never lived in a place where it rains a lot. i have lived, and do live, in a place where the heat makes it so you don't want to do anything outside. maybe the rain is worse. i guess i wouldn't know until i experienced it.

Getty3 · Answer

If it&#x27;s in the 70&#x27;s during the middle of summer, what will the high temps be the other 9 months of the year ? Personally, I can&#x27;t stand low humidity, although I&#x27;m inclined to believe that the humidity level in Oregon would be higher than further inland. I spent a week in Sedona,AZ and Telluride,CO and the dryness coupled with the altitude was really uncomfortable. But those places were sporting daytime temps near 100 in June and it would just suck the moisture right out of you.

THEMUGG · Answer

The joke up here (I live about 40 miles north of Seattle) is that summer doesn&#x27;t start until after July 4th...........&amp; it&#x27;s true for the most part. August is when we generally get the hottest temps &amp; even those aren&#x27;t too hot.........mid 80&#x27;s to low 90&#x27;s with just avg humidity. I think we&#x27;ve only recorded 2 days over 80 so far this year.  Winters are mostly just wet.......doesn&#x27;t drop below freezing for more than a few days at a time. The problem isn&#x27;t the amount of rain we get, it&#x27;s how we get it. Sometimes the jet stream just runs system after system over the area &amp; it&#x27;ll just drizzle off &amp; on for weeks. The golf courses around here were barely playable until just a few weeks ago. But we combat that by driving 2-3 hours over to eastern WA &amp; play over there. Most don&#x27;t realize that Washington is basically 2 different states............the west side is like a rain forest &amp; the east side is desert-like, complete with 100&#x2B; degree heat in the summer.Club...........be happy to answer any questions.

masemoney · Answer

Downside:  Just a fair warning; you&#x27;ll get dirty look after dirty look once the "summer" ends.  The people are pretty rude and ignorant.  You won&#x27;t make many friends unless you grew up there. (same with seattle, wa)Upside:  July-September is beautiful.  And Cannon Beach and Seaside aren&#x27;t too far away which is always a blast.  If you can put up with the weather and the people once the summer ends then you&#x27;ll like it.

ClubDirt · Answer

getty, i can&#x27;t stand the humidity.  i was in texas last summer and played golf when it was about 107.  it was very dry and i just drank water the whole time and it wasn&#x27;t too bad.  i come back to the 95 degree weather with all of that humidity and it was brutal.  maybe i&#x27;m just getting old.mase, it&#x27;s funny, my wife&#x27;s first comment to people was how nice the people were in and around portland.  but she has me to compare them to so that may not mean much.thanks mugg.

Ktrain · Answer

The pacific northwest is absolutely beautiful in the summer.....the other nine months of the year......well not so much. I remember being stationed in Washington state and going into work at 6:30 am and leaving around 4:00 pm during the winter and just not seeing the sun. Between that and the constant drizzle it got quite depressing during the winter.

But it is absolutely beautiful during the summer.

ClubDirt · Answer

i think you need to accept my friend request first.ktrain

HutchEmAll · Answer

I HATE 90&#x2B; and humid....which is all we have had this summer.  I&#x27;m with you.....70 degrees and sunny with low humidity is right in my wheelhouse.  That said, I do get down in winter if I don&#x27;t see the sun for a week or two (and that happens a lot around here....not sure about Oregon).  Love MN and like to experience the seasons, but the dead of winter and the dead of summer suck.  Give me a crisp fall day any time.....

HutchEmAll · Answer

Sounds like the sun disappears plenty in Oregon for a large part of the year based on feedback here.

Nut_Flopper · Answer

Oregon is fine as long as you don&#x27;t collect rain water on your property

drJ · Answer

i lived in portland for 3 years in the early 90&#x27;s.  i loved it.  the rain....its alot....never bugged me.  i skied 50x a year and biked 100.  i banged pretty hot girls frequently...they were failry easy ( i did have an md by then though).  at one point i had 3 girlfriends all named Cathy/Kathy....no shit.loved the place, loved the people.californians fuck everything up though and theres plenty of them.  but i know your political leanings and you&#x27;ll be fine club.  stay near a city....traffic is an issue though.i miss living there and i think you should give it a shot.  if you cant find decent broads to bang there, its because your game sucks or you look like dick cheney.

ClubDirt · Answer

sounds like a lot of discussion about weather. weather is important but there seems to be a lot of other positives there. there seems to be a lot to do and a lot of different things to expose your kids to.

as to the weather, what's worse, 5 months of nasty heat and humidity or 6-7 months of rain. hard to say.

doctor, skiing, biking, mountains, the coast, etc. that sounds pretty good. the window on me getting work done with quality chicks closed several years ago. so that's not a big factor. but i still like them around.

dbuc1 · Answer

D.B. Cooper&#x27;s lost money, a big reason to go to Oregon

Ktrain · Answer

I would take the Pacific Northwest over blazing heat and humidity, but that is just imo.

I will say that I actually went tanning when I lived in Washington, just so people would stop asking me if I was sick because I was so pale all the time.

Anyone live in oregon? What am I missing?

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