You have a lot of tree hugers!! And I loved the time I spent in your state!! If it wasn't so rainy and cold at times I could have stayed......:fireman[1]:
When I retire I am going to move up North and drive slow!!
Yeah, there's a lot of libs in the big cities, Portland, Eugene, Springfield. And we got a fair amount of hippies, mostly in Eugene. But for the most part, there are nice folk around here.
I was born and raised here, and plan on staying. I did leave the state one time, ironically to your state. It blew my mind to see an alligator in my cousin's back yard. :D
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I left for eight years, while in the Navy. I saw enough of the world to know without a doubt that I wanted to come back to Oregon.
Definitely spent his time in the valley.
East of the Cascades, it's a little drier and warmer...![]()
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lived here all my life. Been accrossed the country from coast to coast. Didn't find any place better than here to live. Yea it is wet and cold in the winter but we do have seasons and like the old saying goes "if you don't like the weather wait a minute and it will change". We do have a lot of tree huggers, unfortunately most live in the big cities and that's where most the people live so they control the politics. Cut the three big cities out and this would be a more conservative state.
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Oregon is a strange mix of liberal and conservative. Decent gun laws, but lots of paranoids who oppose them. Staying out of the bigs cities except to visit is good advice. We're trying to get out of Portland and into a different county.