Just got back from Bend.

[MickZagger]

I will retire there.

 

[PapaG]

I will move there within 2 years with the family. Glad you like it, because it's the best town in Oregon and I'm glad we bought there 4 years ago.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Rich white crackaz basically?

 

[MickZagger]

I will move there within 2 years with the family. Glad you like it, because it's the best town in Oregon and I'm glad we bought there 4 years ago.

Been going there every year since I was in diapers. My grandparents had a place right on the Deschutes back before it was all Californicated.

 

[THE HCP]

No thanks. Don't like the desert. Hope to retire in Cannon Beach.


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[EL PRESIDENTE]

Just buy a vacation house.

I'll retire in a small tropical island selling fishing tackle to tourists. Or Popsicles.

 

[julius]

The Bend area is beautiful, but I'm like HCP. I'd like to retire on the coast (assuming I can ever afford to retire).

in fact, my hopes is to someday own a house on the coast, while i'm renting in the metro area. I know some will think that's backwards, but I'd rather own property/small modest house on the coast (with an actual view preferably) and rent in the metro area, so that way I can be free and clear of one and move to the other.

But that's an unlikely goal. I'll probably die on the job.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

My brother has an acre in LaPine. That whole area of central Oregon is incredible.

 

[MickZagger]

No thanks. Don't like the desert. Hope to retire in Cannon Beach.


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Oregon beaches are kind of depressing to me. The weathers never really nice and I get bored there easily.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

My brother has an acre in LaPine. That whole area of central Oregon is incredible.

My family has acreage in lapine too. Love to visit.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

The Bend area is beautiful, but I'm like HCP. I'd like to retire on the coast (assuming I can ever afford to retire).

in fact, my hopes is to someday own a house on the coast, while i'm renting in the metro area. I know some will think that's backwards, but I'd rather own property/small modest house on the coast (with an actual view preferably) and rent in the metro area, so that way I can be free and clear of one and move to the other.

But that's an unlikely goal. I'll probably die on the job.

That's what the wife and I planned. Own at the coast, rent in town.

Then we recently found a sweet deal and ended up closing on a place in Yachats. So, now we own in town and at the coast.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Oregon beaches are kind of depressing to me. The weathers never really nice and I get bored there easily.

?

I go 2-3 weeks per month, year-round. Storm-watching in the fall/winter is rad. Summertime, highs may typically only be 65-70, but it feels much warmer, IMO.

I've stayed at the coast 11-12 weekends since the beginning of April (inlcuding a full week at the beginning of July). Only one day did it rain (and that was at the start of April).

But to each his own, I suppose. I love snow, but I'm not a big skiier or snowboarder, so spending every weekend in the snow for half the year sounds terrible to me.

 

[RR7]

Wasn't a huge fan of it, the few times I have been there for weekends. I like the coast more, personally, but for me, I'm retiring in the city. No desire to really ever live outside of one.

 

[mobes23]

I'm reading a book called "Full Rip 9.0" about the crazy strong earthquake that's due to hit the Northwest (the coast particularly hard.) While I fully get that there's no telling when it'll hit, it's killing my love for the beach. Go high desert! Go Bend! I also like Sisters, if you can handle a smaller town.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I'm reading a book called "Full Rip 9.0" about the crazy strong earthquake that's due to hit the Northwest (the coast particularly hard.) While I fully get that there's no telling when it'll hit, it's killing my love for the beach. Go high desert! Go Bend! I also like Sisters, if you can handle a smaller town.

I hear you. We recently watched the movie based on the true story of the family of five that survived the Sri Lankan tsunami. The next several times we stayed at the family beach house, I barely slept (that has is in an area expected to be completely blown out by a tsunami). When we were looking to buy, I refused to even check out houses that we well into the tsunami zone. Ours is on the edge, with a very quick and easy evacuation route.

 

[mobes23]

This is from a review in the Oregonian: (http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2013/06/full_rip_90_review_the_next_bi.html)

"If Atwater's story deserves to be more widely known, so, too, does the work of Oregon State University professor Chris Goldfinger, whose sampling of ocean sediments has confirmed 19 full-rip Cascadia megaquakes during the last 10,000 years, and revealed another 23 temblors affecting only Oregon and Northern California. Goldfinger's findings suggest that the average interval separating major Cascadia quakes is 250 years. With the current quiet interval at 313 years and counting, Seattle is scarcely the only Northwest ZIP code whose residents have reason to be sleepless. The outlook for the coast, where vulnerability to ground-shaking and inundation is described as a "mirror image" of Japan's, is grim. Doughton's account of the tsunami vulnerability shared by Cannon Beach, Seaside and Washington's Long Beach Peninsula supplies ample reason for every weekend visitor to seek evacuation routes and be prepared to move -- quickly and on foot -- to the nearest high ground in the event the ground shakes."

 

[blazerboy30]

Bend is the best place to live in the country.

I hope to move back in the somewhat near future.

 

[blazerboy30]

I will retire there.

What do you like about it?

 

[Haakzilla]

I'll retire in a small tropical island selling fishing tackle to tourists. Or Popsicles.

...might have greater margins slangin' Hawaiian Shaved Ice (assuming you can access free water on this island of yours)!

 

[THE HCP]

Oregon beaches are kind of depressing to me. The weathers never really nice and I get bored there easily.

I used to say the same thing when I was your age son. Get married, have a couple kids and wait 10 years........ You won't mind the peace and quiet down there!


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[EL PRESIDENTE]

...might have greater margins slangin' Hawaiian Shaved Ice (assuming you can access free water on this island of yours)!

Yeah. I was actually talking to the dude selling Ice cream and Popsicles at the beach the other day. .all cash.... kick back lifestyle.

hoop fam

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

...might have greater margins slangin' Hawaiian Shaved Ice (assuming you can access free water on this island of yours)!

Best shaved ice in Kona!! I love that shop.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

It's "shave ice" btw.

hoop fam

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

It's "shave ice" btw.

hoop fam

Yeah, and come to think of it......... it's Scandinavian Shave Ice in Kona that is so awesome. I was way off.

 

[Wheels]

Dated a girl who lived there for a couple years... beautiful area.. but not my kind of "people"

Being there I felt so outta place. The closest I could liken it to was when I sat in the Lower Bowl at a Blazers game once (Damn you Turkoglu for hitting that 3 at the buzzer!!!)

 

[tlongII]

Sunriver FTW!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Bend and sunriver (along with Maui and palm Springs) is where all the rich crackaz from high school vacayed.

hoop fam

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Never understood the whole Palm Springs thing.

Don't get me wrong. I've been and I enjoyed it. But it's so fucking hot as hell. Like from 9 am to midnight in the summer. So hot it's not fun to be outside. It's in the middle of the desert. So, the things I did love about it...... aren't enough to put it at the top of my list to visit every year.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Never understood the whole Palm Springs thing.

Don't get me wrong. I've been and I enjoyed it. But it's so fucking hot as hell. Like from 9 am to midnight in the summer. So hot it's not fun to be outside. It's in the middle of the desert. So, the things I did love about it...... aren't enough to put it at the top of my list to visit every year.

My grandparents have a house there, but only live there during the "cold months". It's pretty fucking awesome.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Dads play golf
Mom's go to spa
Kids go to the White party

hoop fam