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How's the weather?

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MililaniBuckeye said:
It's a huge difference. While Bend--like Portland--is really expensive for houses, Redmond is about 15-20% less despite being only 15 minutes north. Now, Redmond is growing as fast as Bend now, and as a result housing prices are really going up, but it's still not all that bad. Everything else here--compared to Hawaii--is dirt cheap. I paid for my place with the money made from selling my house in Hawaii, and after I pay my income taxes for last year (which is going to be a shit-ton) I'll still have a fair amount of money in the bank. If I didn't go out at all for a month, I could live on $2,000 a month easily. Once the COVID settles down I plan on taking a trip or two to another country each year until I croak.
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Thailand for the sheboys?
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
Grants Pass is what really blew me away with the housing prices. When I was a kid we lived their briefly and it was a nice town but depressed. I passed through there in about 2002 and it was a meth hell hole. Now it has some of the highest rising housing costs in the state. Lots of Cali money from silicone valley now, building luxury homes o prime real estate has priced the locals right out. Terrible homeless problem there now.
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Ah, Jefferson State, know it well. Where the far right and the far left come together to swap guns and have home school mixers! Almost moved my family there in the late 90s. Yeah, the "cities" Medford, Grants Pass, Cave Junction, Roseburg tend to be shitholes (with the highest opiate and meth rates in the state) and that housing market tended to be driven by working class CA retirees (lot of cops, firefighters...) but it is such beautiful country. Everyone used to grow a little pot--the hippies and the militia. And pretty much everyone voted against any tax bill presented--schools, law enforcement, libraries, roads...They really love their freedom there and by god they are armed well enough to prove it! Except now that pot is legal and growing permits regulated cartels are moving in to grow illegally. And those (allegedly) eastern Euro, Mexican and Chinese cartels are even better armed than the locals. So, now they're demanding government intervention!

The weather in Oregon is always unpredictable and entertaining (see what I did there!).
 
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ExpatAkronite said:
Ah, Jefferson State, know it well. Where the far right and the far left come together to swap guns and have home school mixers! Almost moved my family there in the late 90s. Yeah, the "cities" Medford, Grants Pass, Cave Junction, Roseburg tend to be shitholes (with the highest opiate and meth rates in the state) and that housing market tended to be driven by working class CA retirees (lot of cops, firefighters...) but it is such beautiful country. Everyone used to grow a little pot--the hippies and the militia. And pretty much everyone voted against any tax bill presented--schools, law enforcement, libraries, roads...They really love their freedom there and by god they are armed well enough to prove it! Except now that pot is legal and growing permits regulated cartels are moving in to grow illegally. And those (allegedly) eastern Euro, Mexican and Chinese cartels are even better armed than the locals. So, now they're demanding government intervention!

The weather in Oregon is always unpredictable and entertaining (see what I did there!).
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When I was there in the late 70's-early 80's it was an eclectic mix of ranchers/loggers, locals who grew up on family farms, California transplants, leftover hippies from the 60's, old gold panners living on their claims, Seventh Day adventists and biker gangs. The schools were great, the best schools I ever went to in my life except many didn't have hot lunches but the actual curriculums were fun, especially in the school I attended in Jackson county. I do remember that when we lived there John Lennon died and on the local radio show the next day most of the the callers were calling in to say "good riddence you filthy, hippie, commie scum".

Was going to ad that if you've ever driven up or down 1-5 we lived about a qurater mile from where you cross Jump Off Joe Creek just north of Grants Pass ten miles at the bottom of Sexton Pass
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
When I was there in the late 70's-early 80's it was an eclectic mix of ranchers/loggers, locals who grew up on family farms, California transplants, leftover hippies from the 60's, old gold panners living on their claims, Seventh Day adventists and biker gangs. The schools were great, the best schools I ever went to in my life except many didn't have hot lunches but the actual curriculums were fun, especially in the school I attended in Jackson county. I do remember that when we lived there John Lennon died and on the local radio show the next day most of the the callers were calling in to say "good riddence you filthy, hippie, commie scum".

Was going to ad that if you've ever driven up or down 1-5 we lived about a qurater mile from where you cross Jump Off Joe Creek just north of Grants Pass ten miles at the bottom of Sexton Pass
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So, you were in Ashland?8D
 
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Winter storm warnings already being issued up here in the Great Black Swamp for a storm that isn't supposed to actually start until early Wed. morning. Updated forecasts for the area are calling for 18"+ by late Thursday night. with 30-40 mph winds causing massive blowing and drifting. That wind will be out of the North causing flooding issues along the lakeshore. In 60+ years of living in N.W. Ohio, I can't recall a forecast even remotely like this one.
 
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