I was born and raised in Eugene. Graduated from U of O in 1971. Moved to Southern California in ‘74 and have been trying to get back to Eugene ever since. Now at 75 I finally made it back home. So happy!🙂
My favorite thing about Oregon is those small coastal towns. From Astoria down to Brookings, all connected by Hwy 101, which is one of the most spectacular drives in our nation.
@@nobodyimportant7804 Astoria is less than 10 miles from the coast on a very wide part of the Columbia. Seattle is more than 100 miles. Your comparison is poor.
@@Fakeaorta It is actually about 20 miles to Seaside, which is a coastal town. It is like calling Aberdeen WA a coastal town. Being on a "wide part of the Columbia" does not make it a coastal town, because the Columbia River is famously not an ocean.
I spent 3 months in Seattle last summer & it was interesting, but not 4 me. When I saw the statue of Lenin, that was it 4 me ; It's a Marxist town & The vibe is creepy
@@gregorystinette8271 Exactly, But of course there's supposedly nothing they can do about the Lenin statue because it's "private property", Like that's ever stopped them from removing/destroying other monuments/statues that they don't like. It's funny that they want to condemn Confederate monuments for the history of slavery and repression but then they have a statue of a Man who contributed to the deaths of hundreds of millions as well as the enslavement/poverty of millions that still continue to this day in surviving communist countries.
I’m born and raised in Oregon, moved to Missouri about 25 years ago. Always wanted to move back someday, but now I’m worried that I’ll never be able to afford it. 😢 Missouri’s cost of living is tiny compared to Oregon.
Here is a quote from the former governor, Tom McCall of Oregon & it nicely says it all "I urge them to come and come many, many times to enjoy the beauty of Oregon," McCall said. "But I also ask them, for heaven's sake, don't move here to live." This quote was from 1971. McCall saw the plague of moneyed Locus living in Cali & 52 years later we still don't want them to move here.
I lived in many places in Oregon from the time I was in grade school. No indoor plumbing in La Pine, also out in the sticks out past Creswell, swimming in water holes, fishing wherever, daily roaming fields, my Dad hunting, many times we had an outhouse (cold in winter!) and a water pump outside and it would freeze up in winter, later living in different parts of Portland, and Oregon City and just traveling the state. You could drive on the beach in some places then. So beautiful. People (the ones who lived there) were always willing to help, all friendly. We burned trash outside, picked wildflowers in the fields, dodged the neighbor's bull when we would cut across his field, so many memories. So funny, I do remember if you were from Ca. or had Ca. plates, to avoid people asking if you were just visiting, people would put mud on their front license plate One last great memory was 4th of July in the city of Portland. Then, you could be on the bridge that crossed the river and watch the fireworks go off overhead. Lovely place, then.
You are right. Good reason. I remember him. We didn't want all the progressive Californians to come here and turn it into another California, driving up property prices to the point people had to leave their homes because they couldn't afford the tax price along with the increased cost of living when their wages didn't increase to keep up with it. That's exactly what they did by coming to the Willamette Valley. Many people who lived in their homes and farms their whole lives were pretty much driven out. Too sad.
I lived in Corvallis for 15 years before moving to the Bend area. It’s like moving to another state completely, and it isn’t just the landscape. I think you could almost do an entire video on Bend/Central O vs western Oregon. You keep pointing out how expensive Portland has become, but never mention that that *average* home price in Bend has almost eclipsed $800k with outlying residences deep into the millions. I’m currently working on a $21 million house on the outskirts of town that is going up in an entire neighborhood of $10 mil+ houses. The Californians are here, and they are flexing HARD. The service industry is dying because the workers can’t afford to live within 20 miles of Bend, etc.
I understand it's so much easier to blame all of California for the ridiculous price increases. I did the same thing when Bay Area ( SF ) people started buying homes in my neighborhood. I sold my house and bought a travel trailer.
Same has happened in Colorado mtn towns. Sadly it’s just a product of our capitalist based economy, nothing wrong w rich people living there. If I had the money I’d be somewhere else too
Yep and this InFLUencer is advocating, (while she makes ad $) more Cali crap to move up here. They already ruined Bend. Where next? And Bend is OK, but so overrated now.
I was interested in Oregon, and did a state-wide housing search on the usual sites. Costs were 2x-3x what they are here in TX for similar housing and I'm in an expensive burb of Dallas... No thanks. Looks like I need to find somewhere else.
@@emcsquared8681 all the major Western cities in the PNW are like that now. Used to be a quiet, artsy, eccentric part of the US. Then the tech boom happened and it all went to sh*t.
My older sister had lived in Vancouver, Portland and Seattle. Now, she lives in New Orleans. She was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington like me. I been living in Vancouver rest of my life. Well, I was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington. My sister lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, she moved there in May 2018.
I remember a time, maybe thirty years ago when folks from Oregon were getting tired of Californians moving up there. They were like, "Don't come here. We don't want you."
Oregon is a beautiful US state. I had a chance to make a long road trip there during one of my business trips (the work was done and the flight back to Europe was planned in a week.. Perfect opportunity for a trip 😁). There's everything there - mountains, deserts, lakes, sea, just beautiful. I will definitely come back one day with my family. Greetings from Slovakia!
It truly is beautiful. Sad it’s a Blue state and going down the tube like Seattle, San Francisco, LA etc. No law, no order, no repercussions to criminals committing crimes. Liberals legalized just about every drug possible. Homeless situation out of control. Huge increase in crime. Riots and defund the police garbage. Schools teaching liberal/ socialist b.s. to the kids. It’s a disaster zone now. We lived there for eleven years and had enough- moved to a Red state 6 months ago and will never go back there again. It’s very sad as the natural beauty of that state is absolutely wonderful. You get what and who you vote for. We finally let our feet doing the voting for us. Aloha.
@@bill648I agree with you. We visited Oregon a few months ago and loved it so much that we’ve considered moving there. The main thing holding us back (apart from such a big move) is concern over the homeless and drug issues. Politically, it seems like a mess. The nature is stunning though. We are in Ohio, so the politics are pretty good, but the little bit of nature we have left is absolutely flooded with people, and is usually near a freeway. It’s a hard balance.
@@bill648. You can keep your red state! It’s because Oregon is blue that we have been able to preserve our natural beauty. The red people wanted LNG terminals on the Columbia River. We fought them till they went broke and left!
My husband has an grandma from his mom side. She moved to Oregon a few years ago. She said it more peaceful and a lot of nature. In the area she lives. I grew up in Lodi CA. Most of my life. I did live in acampo, Lockeford, and Stockton. For a short while. Though now that I have 2 kids. My hometown doesn’t feel like my home town anymore. It’s small and everyone knows everyone. Yes my whole family lives here. But for awhile it’s not been the same. I find myself looking at videos like this and think what would it would be like to live there. I have a friend that moved to Placerville recently and took me to her new home. Surrounded by mountains and trees I actually felt peace and free. It’s was a 2 hour drive from my hometown. I was there with my husband and kids too. Thanks to my friend I was able to experience something I didn’t know I needed. I feel that feeling it’s hard to explain
The Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon are beautiful, there’s lots of hiking and recreation,it’s southeast that’s desert like. The people in Eastern Oregon are pretty great people.
Yep, this guy clearly doesn't know much about the eastern two thirds of Oregon. It is people with his mentality that have pushed eastern Oregonians to look elsewhere for fair representation.
@@thorgrimr4425 We in Grant County along the Blue Mountains do not want to create a greater Idaho! I have lived at the base of Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon (Grant County) for over 20 years, my husband all his life and most of us do not want to chop Oregon in half. Especially my husband, hates Idaho. Horrible work polices.
@@davidirwin4067Not true! We in Grant County along the Blue Mountains do not want to create a greater Idaho! We voted on it and it didn't pass in our county! I have lived at the base of Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon (Grant County) for over 20 years, my husband all his life and most of us do not want to chop Oregon in half. Especially my husband, hates Idaho. Horrible work polices.
This is the first youtuber that I have seen that has done a good job describing Oregon. Well done! Most people over-emphasize the beauty and ignore the downsides. As someone that has lived in Oregon for more than a decade, if you are considering moving to Oregon, this is the video for you!
I thought he made too many mistakes. I have lived here my entire 69 years of life and lived all 4 directions and in between. He was wrong about some things.
Hello from the Oregon Coast 😎I retired here in Florence, a small rural town 4 years ago. Peaceful community where people respect one another and the environment. I walk the amazing beaches daily. Florence is the Coastal Playground ! Grateful to live the final chapter of my life in a beautiful place and have peace of mind. FYI: What happens in Portland stays in Portland ! We do not associate with that chaos. Portland is three hours/2oo hundred miles away from Florence. Thank goodness !
My husband is in love with Oregon, I have never been there. We are in CA, planning to move to Oregon. Would love to meet ppl to help us figure out where to buy house Any suggestions? Thx in advance 🙏
We used to live in Beaverton for 11 years. A big suburb of Portland. The major issues of homelessness and crime have spilled out of Portland to the surrounding communities. It is Not isolated to just the city of Portland. Only a matter of time before it stretches further. And the voters of Portland are the ones who control the vote in the state with the largest populations. Don’t be fooled into thinking it won’t affect you. Just a matter of time.
It’s everyone moving there- gentrification all over the state now. The only people moving out of that state are native Oregonians. 😢 Housing is a nightmare and no longer affordable for those that grew up there.
Native Oregonian here - I would like to point out that most people are born and raised in a small town not that they all move to a small town. Then people that are born and raised in small towns usually stay or go back because they have family there, connections, roots, property, etc..
@@Renilou2some of the most interesting geography of Oregon is east of the cascades… Steens, Blue mountains, Wallowa mountains. And also other than hood most of the impressive mountains are central Oregon, east of the major population zones…
You should remind all the more recent California transplants, while they're driving, to slow down, don't weave in and out of traffic and certainly don't tail gate other drivers. There's been a significant increase of impatient California transplants over the past 5 years.
Most Portlanders drive like they are shopping at Costco, slow, distracted, and lacking situational awareness. You'll see out-of-state drivers speeding and tailgating because so many locals think Speeding is a capital offense, and intentionally drive 5-10 miles under the speed limit. Portlanders are also infamous for matching speeds with cars in other lanes. You'll see locals hop in the left lane to pass, even if they're only doing a quarter mile per hour faster, with no concern for what everyone else is doing around them. Maybe people are tailgating you because you're driving badly? (Before you cry "Californian!", I moved here from Kansas in 1989. I learned to drive in the snow, which apparently few people from the West Coast know how to do.)
Lol, us Oregonians down by the Californian border always complain they drive to slow! We get the road is right next to the cliff but you can go just a little bit faster. They’ll go almost the speed limit on straightaways then slow down 20mph for the tiniest curves. They also tend to camp the passing lane for no reason at all, and still go slow in it.
@@3DEditor Going the speed limit won’t kill you. Plus the amount of RVs going through is terrible recently, and they refuse to go above 30mph on a road with a speed limit of 50mph and refuse to pull over, even with giant turn outs.
I visited Oregon several years ago with my ex, just to see Crater Lake. I have to say, Crater Lake is just about the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...photos do NOT do it justice! We stood on the rim next to the lodge when we first got there, along with several other people. As we all gazed upon the lake, we found ourselves whispering, like you would in church. Breathtaking.
Definitely! Honeymooned at the lodge. Reminds me of the lodge in "The Shining"......beautiful and mysterious. We were on the Harley and dressed for summer. It was June and snowing. We were soooo cold. We used to ride snowmobiles from nearby Diamond Lake to Crater Lake. In the dead of winter most of Crater Lake is shut down. Standing on the rim of Crater Lake in February in the snow with NO ONE around is surreal.
I’ve lived in OR since 2002, did not grow up here but moved here for a guy and loved it. Just a little tired of the 7-8 months of rain but it makes us appreciate the sunny days more. I agree with you, I especially love that it takes 20 minutes to get to a hike it. You literally can drive 1 hr to Mt hood for a ski and 2 ish hrs west to the beach. The coast is calm and not over crowded although it gets pretty windy in most coastal towns. I love all the lushy greens and fresh air that since moving up her from CA I can say I dont get those seasonal allergies as often anymore. If I ever move out of OR it would have to be a state similar to OR.
born & raised in oregon, started my family in eugene & portland, moved to south florida in 2017. Oregon's quality of life is far above Florida's. But you only have one life and we need to see different things while we have the ability to make something of our lives.
Born and raised in California. So the first vacation house I bought was in Roseburg Oregon!! After 10 years, had to sell it due to health issues, but even now, 12 years later, I still miss that town. Every chance I get, I still go up there just to see what's happening in town.
Thanks Briggs! I'm in the process of moving from Everett, WA to PDX. I use to live in PDX in the 80s and boy howdy things have changed. But I'm glad to be coming back to my native state.
The southern Oregon, Medford area wasn’t mentioned much on the video. We have amazing outdoor activities all year. Annual rain is only about 23 inches a year and around 195 days of sunshine!!! Lower crime obviously than the pix area but just as beautiful. We also have theater, arts, a great wine country and craft beet community. This area has risen in prices a lot over the years as others find about all that it offers,
I really love Eastern Oregon the best. Give me Hells Canyon, Wallowas, and The Blue Mountains anytime. The Oregon Outback in Southeast Oregon is really special. A high desert experience. Forget about Western Oregon and Portland in particular. Been there, done that.
Regarding the Cascadia Subduction Zone: I think he put too much emphasis on the tsunami versus the earthquake. As he said, the Tsunami may not have much impact inland from the coast. However, the earthquake could demolish homes, buildings, and other infrastructure on a massive scale in Oregon's urban and suburban areas.
I talked with a geo tech engineer a number of years ago about what it will be like in the Portland area when the subduction zone unzips. He said that it will be like a 5 minute long, 7.0 earthquake. There are a lot of buildings that will fall down, mostly older ones that aren't built to the modern codes. A lot of homes will be damaged as well, and older ones not secured to the foundation will slide off and collapse. Most of the bridges in western Oregon will fail and many on the highways over the Cascades will also be impassable due to bridge failures. Oregon has been beefing up US 97 through Central Oregon, as well as the Redmond airport, to deal with the inevitable disaster. There's a great documentary by Oregon Public Broadcasting called "Unprepared." If you live in Western Oregon, it's worth an hour of your time to watch it.
Some geologists believe it will be in excess of an 8.0+ magnitude. Damage and impacts will affect the region from northern CA to British Columbia, especially west of the Cascade Range. No roads & bridges. The tsunami will hit the coastal towns (one-two punch) within ten minutes of the slip.
Raised in central Oregon and lived there for the first 22 years of my life. I say things have changed drastically. What use to be our fun little playground is now gone. The forests are all being cut down like crazy, people that just moved there or visiting aren’t taking care of the environment and a lot of our lakes are losing water. Sad it see it happen but that’s the price of growing. Don’t think I’ll ever move back.
@@rayc.1396 not true… all 3 states have been blue since the beginning of time. It has everything to do with it just being an attractive place to live. We get 4 seasons, amazing lakes, mountains and extremely safe. Social media really helped it too.
@@TheSportsfansSamnot true. Oregon was primarily Republican between the 1880s and 1986. Voting Democrat only six times during that period. Starting in the 1970s Democrats from California started pouring in and by the late 1980s Oregon was primarily Democrat. Being old I actually remember it happening. Just like people in Idaho there was a lot of hand wringing but there was nothing that could be done about it. Same thing happened in Washington.
Boy do I agree in the late 60s ca used to come and trash the camp grounds,could always see where ca camped,ruined grounds,trash all over,then the tree Barron's got greety and the forest was destroyed.
My auntie easily get accustomed to the variable weather of oregon since 1986 and now she found her second new home a peaceful beautiful quiet city...🤗🤗😉😉😘😘🥰
Personally I absolutely love Oregon!! I don’t care what anyone else says about it. I grew up in Maine and after I got out of the service I moved out to California and have been living on this side for almost fourteen years. For some reason I’ve found myself attracted to the PNW. Maybe because it was British territory in colonial times. Or it’s similar to the Northeast. I recently came up for a visit and went to Bend, Brownsville, did the Enchanted Forest, Cannon Beach, Astoria, Great video man!
I was raised just SE of Enchanted forest, came back to the house I was raised in after pop passed away. My dad was a Cartoonist/Graphic Designer, he helped Roger Tofte with artwork for enchanted forest when it was being built. I still remember getting the tours of things being built long before the place opened.
Recently moved to Oregon, close to the Tri-Cities in WA. It honesty feels like Colorado in a way out here lol. Planning on exploring most of the state near the end of the summer
Hermiston & Umatilla have been growing rapidly, that's for sure. Just wild amounts of development beyond what seems reasonable for such a isolated and small area of high desert. Pendleton strangely has been ignored for development though, when it is the dominant and historic city of the east. Now Milton-Freewater on the other hand is the town people don't even realize exists out there somehow, despite it's size being nestled in the ridges to the north of the Wallowas.
@@TheCriminalViolin yeah, I've been told by coworkers that the area is growing a lot. I won't be surprised to see major developments in the next couple of years, maybe some development across the Columbia River near the I-82, but I'm not sure how the terrain is since that drive feels barren from Hermiston to thr Tri-Cities
Former Pennsylvania resident, now living in Eugene, I can say without hesitation that Oregon winters are very mild compared to back east. Great fishing 15 minutes from the house. No sales tax is a big deal if you are retired.
No income tax is MUCH MUCH more important for my wife and me, but the absence of sales tax will tend to yield bigger savings for households with lower incomes. Better could be living in WA near the OR border. Pay no state income tax, then shop and dine in OR with no sales tax.
I'm from CA. We vacationed in OR often and drove N on 5 even more. We moved to Bandon ... I am happily shocked by how rural most of Oregon is. I really miss doordash though 😢
I lived in CA for 24 years. Kept hearing about the "Big One." Then the '89 quake happened, and scientists started say that wasn't the "Big One." You won't scare me away by telling me about a big earthquake. At my age, you're not going to scare me with a death threat.
Spot on. Lived in Banks Oregon 20 years and Oregon - Portland and McMinnville for 8 years. Always loved Oregon because of oceans, mountains. People are come as you are atmosphere so you feel welcome anywhere. No sales tax is nice. But the bad rap Portlands getting these last couple years makes me question if I could retire here or not and Jan thru May can be very rainy with hardly any sun/ can do a lot of damage on emotions those months. Would love to see Portland clean up it’s act for the rest of us Oregonians.
I am predicting that western Oregon and Washington state will become even more popular with the new summer heat that we are all experiencing. How many days over 110 has Phoenix had now in a row? Just saying.
You do realize for Phoenix, that is normal for summer there, right? haha. The Willamette Valley averages since 2006 or so in the upper 80s/mid 90s in the summers now, and the rain everyone always harps about actually hasn't been a thing at all since then either. Used to have or historic and normal average of 42.5" of it a year up here in the Portland area, but ever since then have averaged around 15"-25" a year and VERY spread out rather than all mainly in late autumn, through early-mid spring. We went from having a average total days a year 100 or above around 3-5 to more around 8-15 a year, too. And a Oregon's theme is to constantly complain about the weather, as as soon as they get the weather they wanted and beg for, they immediately are tired of it/hate it and want the other weather they were complaining about not liking all over again lol. Its annoying. As a lifelong Oregonian myself? I'm haunted by it haha.
@@TheCriminalViolin As a former resident of Yuma (former US Marine), I know AZ heat. And no, it’s not the normal to have so many consecutive days over 110 degrees.
The more popular a state becomes the more it goes downhill. I suspect Boise will be somewhat like Portland soon. Seems like people move into a state, exploit it and harvest it, then complain how bad it is and move on to harvest a new place
It depends on which Phoenix you mean. I live in Phoenix Oregon and it hit 117.2° on my front porch on June 27, 2021. So it's hot 🥵🔥 everywhere, including the coast. I've been in Brookings - in March! - when it was 92° due to a freak weather event that happens there on occasion. Climate change is everywhere.
We live on Alsea Bay on the Central Oregon Coast. Tsunami’s are definitely something I worry about. We have a lot next-door that is at an elevation of 500 feet and we put an off grid airstream up there that I’m hoping will be our escape plan if/when the big Juan (De Fuca) hits 😮
A tsunami concern is real and 500 feet likely may not be enough.... pay attention to what animals are doing and head for the hills early. The predictions when it happens are dire
I lived in North bend for 15 years, 20 years ago and it is a concern to all there. But the Willamette Valley has a higher risk of Earthquake. Huge faults go right under, especially through Silverton, Scotts Mills, Portland and on to areas of Washington.
We visit Oregon by motorhome often because we have a daughter in S. Portland, and son in Garibaldi/Tillamook and a father in law just south of Brookings in Crescent City...Am from the Calif. far East Bay Area ...We love Oregon !!! Especially the Coast and State Parks and HWY 101 ride...We have never had any problems there even Portland which we have been to many times especially when daughter was going to Portland St....We do alot of Casino camping for free night stays when traveling to and from our destinations...We also love to be anywhere west of I-5 (especially state parks) during hot summer time as the weather is always acceptable there...Will take the Oregon Coast over the Calif. coast any day...I fit right in with all the Breweries there, my kind of gig....
I lived in Tualatin Oregon, a suburb of Portland for 3 years. Being from the Central Valley of California I will tell you that in order to enjoy that part of Oregon you MUST love gray skies and rain ALL the time. Do NOT underestimate the dreariness of it. My experience of moving from one of the sunniest cities in the US to one of the cloudiest was not an enjoyable one. It's funny because I live in a city this guy rips on but I'm less than an hour from the Sierra Nevada mountains, Yosemite, and the Sequoia national forest, all of which have more natural beauty than anything the Portland aka Stumptown area has to offer. Oh and the beaches that are a couple of hours away aren't rainy and cold 9 months of the year.
it is actually sunny and warm for 6 months out of the year here, but yea, i would never want to live in tualitan. if you can afford to live in the central coast of CA, then hell, why not. it’s incredible there
Oregon is amazing; I moved from Austin, Texas in 2013 and cringe when I think of visiting a place I lived for 32 years. Whew, I escaped to Oregon ! Yippie!!!
My family migrated from Walnut Creek, California to Bend Oregon back in the mid 70's. Bend, imo is becoming over developed and I moved to Corvallis. It's such a beautiful little town with a beautiful university a stones throw away! Plus college football is pretty awesome 😎 I ride a bike around town in the spring and summer (and fall) winters here are pretty wet & stormy but I like it too!! Basically OREGON is a really great place to live ❤
I did my doctorate at the U of O in Eugene in the middle 1980s. I loved the Eugene area. The rain from about October - May can get to you, but it also can be invigorating. I must confess that I was never able to take a shine to the 8-10" banana slugs. About mid June through September is absolutely gorgeous with temps generally ranging from the low 60s to the high 80s. If you have experienced communing with nature (forests, waterfalls, rivers, lakes, ocean, mountains), you know what I mean about how it soothes your soul. Drive 60 miles west and you're at the ocean. Drive 2 hours east and you're in the charming little mountain town of Sisters.
Though "Portland ain't Oregon" (so true!), the Eugene area and the Salem area come the closest politically & culturally to Portland than the remainder of the state's towns and smaller communities do. But crime, drugs and homelessness is a worsening problem statewide. Oregon currently is undergoing a net migration loss, according to an early 2023 article.
We're moving to Camas, WA from Beaverton. No state income tax, no sales tax across the bridge in Oregon. The thing I dislike most about Oregon is the weather. Nine months of cold and rain, three months of 90 plus heat.
@@weswest8666 My wife and I both work remotely from home. It just made sense. Why waste 10% of your salary on state taxes if you don't have to? The Washington side of the gorge is a lot nicer than the Oregon side. Camas is a beautiful small town, and Vancouver isn't that bad anymore, especially East Vancouver.
I live in Vancouver and I would say that is too negative a description. The PNW west of the cascades has warmer winters than most of the country. And I would say likewise the summers are not as hot as most of the country. We do get a lot of rainy days from Nov-Jun but not heavy rainstorms very often.
@@spafon7799 Yeah, but how hot is it today? 97 at my house. Never used to be this hot up here on a regular basis. I don't mind the cold and rain as much as the heat.
Portland, Oregon is beautiful town. I've been to Portland a lot. I was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington and I live in Vancouver, Washington my whole life.
Great video. I visited OR a few months ago for the first time and was super impressed. People were strangely friendly and the outdoor scenery was ridiculously beautiful. I liked the DIY feel and small businesses in the Portland area. Can't wait to go back again! ✌️
@@diodelvino3048 home prices in oregon seem to be similar to my area in texas anyway, but I’m mostly interested in cities in the pacific northwest due to their climate.
Really depends on the area of Oregon. Southern Oregon get little rain all year. we are generally in the 90’s and low 100’s all summer. Sunshine most of the year but the heat can be bad.
I've been to Texas once. I was in Dallas in April. I went out the door of my hotel and it was like going into a sauna. I far prefer the weather in the PNW.
We get the same snow thing up here in the Seattle area. Folks around here drive like the road warrior when it rains, but one snowflake falls & cars end up in ditches on the side of the road, abandoned. Pretty amazing...
We went through Portland on a little trip last year. I think it's really nice that they let people camp along the freeway. Does the city provide restrooms for the campers? And trash services?
not sure but at least they provided (when I was there last) showers and rest stops for people on the road, coffee too . the way to go, thinking of others, being friendly.......helping others instead of the way Ca. is - over regulated for sure with Pelosi's nephew at the helm .
I love living in Oregon! Only other states that I would want to live in are probably Washington, Colorado, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont… I think that does it.
Just got back from Bend today. TRAFFIC WAS INSANE!! CROWDS everywhere - on a MONDAY! 20-30 minute waits most restaurants. We went to Shari's this morning, McKay's Cottage Restaurant was packed! Shari's had one server! They put a sign on the door. Yes, It took an hour to get served. Re-thinking moving there. Everyone we talked to said it has really gotten worse this past year. Condos going up all over town. Our hotel maid told us it takes her sometimes over an hour to get to Redmond from north Bend and rents are horrible.
I'm proud to live in Oregon my whole life. I'm not moving out of this state unless the country goes crazy. My favorite part about Oregon is the Oregon Coast. It's fun to visit there.
The worst thing about Oregon has only worsened over my 50 years here: too many Californians moving here. Also many of the largest cities have terrible problems with homeless and drugs.
5th generation Northern Californian. Live on the border. Most Californians that go to Oregon aren't really from California but stay here for a time before moving to Oregon. Portland nightmare is due to the laws you folks passed up there. OH, but what am I hearing, blame your state's problems on someone else. How Oregonian of you. Hay man, take responsibility and clean it up! Quit blaming others for your problems.
A-typical answer lol if you ask if they are from California moat say no we are from east caost or mid west, how do you think California got so big. Typical Oregonian!
Used to live in Lake Oswego. We had an alder tree that was dying. The city denied a permit to remove it. When I said it was dying the response was “it isn’t dead yet.” A couple of years after selling and moving to Central Oregon I happened to look on Google Earth and saw that EVERY tree in the back yard had been removed. I could only conclude that permission was not requested.
l arrived in Oregon for what I thought would be one year...and 50 years later I'm still here. I've been all over the nation, and the world, and there's no place I'd rather be.
28-year resident here. One thing that you kind of missed is that it doesn't rain as much as people think. We're not even in the top 30. NYC gets more than 1/3 more rain than Portland every year (and isn't known for rain). We are only #30 in days with rain. What we DO have a lot of are cloudy days in the winter - plus, winter days are an hour shorter than they are in the southern US. In the winter, we drive to work in the dark and drive home in the dark. This is what drives many newcomers away - seasonal affective disorder. On the bright side, summer days are an hour longer than they are in the south, and a lot more pleasant!
Native Texas here and will be retiring soon from the Air Force. The wife and I have our eyes set on making Oregon our home. I visited for a month in 2014 and feel its my destiny to return. These videos are great!
I love living in OR. I use to hate the politics here. Now I love and embrace them. I hope the antics of Salem keeps people away. Our secretary of state was let’s go for taking 10 K a month from a pot company. The state reps got busted for taking expensive alcohol from the Oregon liquor board. Then fired the liquor board so they wouldn’t get in trouble. I live in the i5 Corridor. I’m retiring to the east side of the state to live on the side of a mountain in the middle of nowhere.
I'm from Eugene. I live in Houston now. Moved with my family in the 6th grade. I miss Oregon, but it sure seems to have changed since the 80s. I still try to vacation up there when I can.
I take umbrage with your tone of voice when describing the eastern part of the state. It is a different climate than west of the cascade mountain range: high desert. It offers some of the best rock climbing anywhere. Camping is unbelievable because there is no light pollution to destroy your view of the stars. Fossil hunting. Hiking. Mountain biking. (on second thought... it's terrible. stay away. don't come here. ;-)
My daughter moved to Portland last fall and she's trying to get my wife and I to move there. I like it, but the real estate is expensive and the property taxes are nuts. Just not there yet. I Don't want to spend 750K on a house with 11K in taxes and it needs 200k in work.
@@edisonsantana4261 That was her experience, but they lived in the Marshall Park area. They have since moved out and gone back to Iowa where her husband is from. I prefer Portland to Iowa or even Arizona where I live now in terms of vibe and diversity/food/beer, but it is expensive. The only downside is the rain half of the year. My arthritis didn't like that. Iowa has its own set of issues. Anyplace does.
Speaking of history, Baker City in Eastern Oregon is named after the only sitting senator to die in battle. He raised a regiment of Oregonians to fight in the civil war and died leading them at the battle of Ball’s Bluff
I'm really surprised we didn't learn about that back in 4th grade, when county history was a requirement...Wow. That was way back in 1977, if I recall right too.
Don't forget Willamete University... the only Ivy League college on the West coast! Also a good reason to stay is measure 5 and measure 47, limiting property tax increases. Oh, and all beaches are owned by the public!! Great video Mr. Briggs!!
I LOVE your videos, Mr. Briggs! Most of all, I like your voice - so full of vitality and enthusiasm! And where come up with those crazy scenes for your videos, I'll never know, but they're GREAT!
Even Portland itself is quite scenic! I used to live up the hill from Downtown and there are trails everywhere in the woods that make you almost feel like you're in the mountains but you can see a whole city below. Of course Portland is super dangerous now and there's a reason why I left.
The Westside of Oregon is almost a different state. Terrable place and people. The otherside is gorgeous and great folks,tons of stuff to do and get back to real life without the cell phone.
As a native Portlander born and raised I found this video to be entertaining, but certainly sprinkled with large doses of propaganda. Let’s walk through some of the more egregious items that were too disingenuous to ignore and highlight actual information: -- “Portland is known for its progressive and environmentally conscious culture.” That is so yesterday. First, progressive is too conservative a word for Portland’s culture. Second, Portland has completely lost its environmental self-awareness. Walk anywhere in Portland, most especially downtown, and what do you see? Trash everywhere, feces on sidewalks, spent needles. I even had to call the Mayor’s office to complain about tents covering the sidewalk in front of the Oregon Commission for the Blind at SE 12th Avenue and Washington Street, and what did he do about it? You guessed it: nothing. Ideology is so rampant that even blind people get no empathy (thank goodness for the recent ADA lawsuit). The good old days of being "environmentally conscious" are long gone. -- “Oregon state income tax is pretty high.” Ya think? Last I checked Oregon had the fifth-highest income tax rate in the country at 9.9%. But it’s even worse than that because other states use a highly graduated income tax scale so that poorer people pay generally lower rates than richer, but Oregon kicks its poor people quite hard indeed. For a single filer, Oregon’s income tax rate skyrockets to 8.75% after a mere $10,200 in income. You also suggest Oregon is in the “middle of the pack” when it comes to tax burden, but you are not separating what RESIDENTS pay in tax from what BUSINESSES pay in tax. In a state like Washington, which has no income tax, the overall tax burden is borne far more by the business sector, but those businesses are able to export their tax burden in the form of products sold out of state, compared to Oregon where the tax burden falls much more heavily and broadly on its own residents. -- “You’re going to be able to find a job and chances are it’s going to be okay pay, too.” Good grief, statistics don’t lie. You’ve said you like decennial census data, so let’s use Bureau of Economic Analysis data from 2020 to compare Multnomah County, where Portland is, to its most closely related peer city, Seattle in King County, Washington. Multnomah County’s 2020 per-capita income was $65,858, while King County was $99,734. The good folks in Seattle have a per-capita income that is 51% higher than Portland. I guess you can call that “okay” pay for Portlanders, but best to be real about how low income levels are. -- With respect to home ownership, you said Oregon is “too damn expensive.” What you didn’t say is how that expense is greatly compounded by the extraordinary property tax rates borne by Oregonians, especially in Portland. The easiest way to property tax rates is through the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) reported by each county which includes total millage rate (the amount of property tax paid per $1000 assessed valuation). Multnomah County, where Portland is, reported its 2022 millage rate as $26.02 in property tax per $1000 assessed valuation. Compare to Clark County, Washington, just 3,000 feet away from Portland across the Columbia River with more than half-million population, where the reported 2022 millage rate is only $12.56. Clearly, Portlanders are getting screwed by having to pay more than twice as much in property tax than their neighbors (and not surprisingly, Clark County is consequently booming in population and development compared to dying Portland). Again, this video was entertaining, but unless you're working for Travel Oregon or the Portland Metro Chamber it would be best if you could present straight information to people and eschew propaganda, especially through omission of important information.
I am born and raised Portland. I've lived in Beaverton, The Pearl District, and went to Portland State in the 90s. I also work for PPB until 2019. I know Portland. You are way off on everything you said. I think you were more intrested in crying than actually understanding what this video was all about. 1)“Portland is known for its progressive and environmentally conscious culture.” That is so yesterday. " You are delusional. Both are very strong in Portland and really all of Oregon. The only difference is the focus in the media has shifted to other things plaguing Portland. 2)“Oregon state income tax is pretty high.” Ya think?" Yes, he obviously thinks that or he wouldn't have included it. It's a 10 minute video that is meant to be entertaining and informative. He has to balance entertainment and information. If the man starts rambling off a bunch of numbers people stop watching. 3)“You’re going to be able to find a job and chances are it’s going to be okay pay, too.” Good grief, statistics don’t lie." Again. You are looking for more details than anyone wants that watches his videos. It isn't a 2 hour documentary. It is a 14 minute video with information, a few jokes, and a few stories. 4) "With respect to home ownership, you said Oregon is “too damn expensive.” What you didn't say" Again, more info than needed for this type of video. The video was put up 10 days ago and has 70k views. If he would have added all that garbage it would have half the views because people would watch 25% of the video and move on. That signals to UA-cam people aren't enjoying the video and it stops getting reecomended. Maybe trying and understand what he is doing before you start looking for something to complain about.
I live on the coast and love it. It’s cheap, gas is cheap, no smog, food is good. Most folks are decent, the raiders not so much but they look straight out of fallout so they are easy to spot.
@@sonicleaves Baker City here, nestled right between the Elkhorns and the Eaglecaps. You are right. He came across as completely clueless about Eastern Oregon.
I moved here a year ago from Utah and I have no regrets, which is excellent because the housing market is slowing down and eating at my equity, so I'm pretty much stuck.
I recently got back from vacation in Oregon, and I wondered who was crazy enough to traverse through the seemingly barren wasteland of East Oregon. Then I got to Seaside, saw the statue of Lewis and Clark and said “oh yeah!” In all seriousness though, I wouldn’t mind living in the PNW. It’s just…money and all that! 😩
The reason why the idea of states splitting themselves is something nearly impossible to happen, is because according to "legislation", the permission of the parent state is needed, and there is no way that permission would ever be given under any circumstances. So its kind of like a 16 year old girl asking her parents permission to get nipple piercings. The answer is always going to be NO. The only time a state can successfully split is when things get so bad that the people don't care about the before mentioned legislation, and they do the split anyways and look at the rest of the states and say "its done, so just deal with it!". This is how for example, West Virginia split off from its parent state of Virginia. They didn't ask the required permissions from the parent state, they just did the split and said "if you don't like it, too bad!". This is the only way to split a state. So until the people of these movements are willing to risk the dangers and perils of doing it anyways against the wishes of the parent state, then it remains in the "not gonna happen" category.
Yecch. Only incident I've heard of like that happening around here in Baker City was the Braswell boy taking a dump on the steps of City Hall or the Courthouse, according to the neighbor lady across the street (who has been his probation officer at least once). I think he finished his time back in September.
Moved to Portland area in 1990 from Rancho Cucamonga, Ca. When looking for houses, I the real estate agent found out we were from California, they’d add $100k to the price. Ended up moving to Beaver Creek outside of Oregon City
Briggs, why are the beginning of your videos a click track? I hear three clicks and the videos start really odd. The bumper you had was good, maybe an update but good.
Third generation Oregonian here. You hit the highlights pretty well, so thanks. The one thing you didn't mention was housing; at least, the rest of the housing in the state. If you're looking to rent for awhile before you buy, you might want to think again. Housing is at a premium on most of the state. The Rogue Valley/Medford area had a 3% vacancy rate a decade ago and it's much tighter now after the Labor Day wildfires that burned through 3 towns down here and several up in the Santiam Pass area. I know of at least one professional who tried to relocate here on a $70,000/annual salary and couldn't find anything for his family (him, wife, 2 children) that they could afford on his wages. 😢 That's part of why there is such a big homeless population across the entire state. 😮 I'm a Gen-Xer and have lived here all but 2 years of my life and this housing issue is bad.
This is a really well made video! I am born and raised Oregonian (eugene/Spfd) and you summed it up well. I’m very conservative (there are a few of us on the west side) and the politics has made me want to move but it’s just so damn beautiful and the weather mild…. I just tolerate the chaos and try to take a hike when I get stressed LOL! Thanks for a nice representation. Oh yeah, and I avoid PDX like the plague 🤮.
I was born and raised in Eugene. Graduated from U of O in 1971. Moved to Southern California in ‘74 and have been trying to get back to Eugene ever since. Now at 75 I finally made it back home. So happy!🙂
Glad you are happy. Stay blessed
Glad you are happy. Stay blessed
Welcome 😁 Home! 💚💛
Sorry. I got out in 1990. Good luck.
I am in Eugene. Born and raised in northern CA. Vacaville..
My favorite thing about Oregon is those small coastal towns. From Astoria down to Brookings, all connected by Hwy 101, which is one of the most spectacular drives in our nation.
Yes. The entire coast is great.
Newport is my favourite. And it is hard to name the best one!
Do Oregonians really consider Astoria to be a coastal town?
I shouldn't be surprised. A lot of folks in Seattle thinks Seattle is on the ocean.
@@nobodyimportant7804 Astoria is less than 10 miles from the coast on a very wide part of the Columbia. Seattle is more than 100 miles. Your comparison is poor.
@@Fakeaorta It is actually about 20 miles to Seaside, which is a coastal town. It is like calling Aberdeen WA a coastal town.
Being on a "wide part of the Columbia" does not make it a coastal town, because the Columbia River is famously not an ocean.
The PNW is freaking gorgeous, I just moved back to Seattle. While it’s not perfect, the natural beauty is a huge plus for me.
It really is gorgeous but unfortunately it's run by Leftists, And that's enough to ruin even the best of states.
I spent 3 months in Seattle last summer & it was interesting, but not 4 me. When I saw the statue of Lenin, that was it 4 me ; It's a Marxist town & The vibe is creepy
@@gregorystinette8271 Exactly, But of course there's supposedly nothing they can do about the Lenin statue because it's "private property", Like that's ever stopped them from removing/destroying other monuments/statues that they don't like. It's funny that they want to condemn Confederate monuments for the history of slavery and repression but then they have a statue of a Man who contributed to the deaths of hundreds of millions as well as the enslavement/poverty of millions that still continue to this day in surviving communist countries.
@@gregorystinette8271 Marxist but in favour of Ukronazis that topple Lenin's statues. So weird....
@fredtheanon6049 / I concur, my friend. Hypocrisy at it's finest. Shalom
Born & Raised Oregonian 🌲 from Hoodriver ✌🏾. I lived in NC & GA in the past I hated it, no place is like good ole Oregon 💚💚
Sooo true! I’m from Missouri, but also lived in Maryland and Oregon will forever be home! The most beautiful state!
I live in The Dalles
I’m born and raised in Oregon, moved to Missouri about 25 years ago. Always wanted to move back someday, but now I’m worried that I’ll never be able to afford it. 😢 Missouri’s cost of living is tiny compared to Oregon.
Also born and raised in Portland also lived in AL, TX, VA, and NE and came home cause there is no place like Oregon.
Yes I live in NC sucks
Here is a quote from the former governor, Tom McCall of Oregon & it nicely says it all
"I urge them to come and come many, many times to enjoy the beauty of Oregon," McCall said. "But I also ask them, for heaven's sake, don't move here to live."
This quote was from 1971. McCall saw the plague of moneyed Locus living in Cali & 52 years later we still don't want them to move here.
"Welcome To Oregon, Now Go Home" - Governor Tom McCall
I lived in many places in Oregon from the time I was in grade school. No indoor plumbing in La Pine, also out in the sticks out past Creswell, swimming in water holes, fishing wherever, daily roaming fields, my Dad hunting, many times we had an outhouse (cold in winter!) and a water pump outside and it would freeze up in winter, later living in different parts of Portland, and Oregon City and just traveling the state. You could drive on the beach in some places then. So beautiful. People (the ones who lived there) were always willing to help, all friendly. We burned trash outside, picked wildflowers in the fields, dodged the neighbor's bull when we would cut across his field, so many memories. So funny, I do remember if you were from Ca. or had Ca. plates, to avoid people asking if you were just visiting, people would put mud on their front license plate One last great memory was 4th of July in the city of Portland. Then, you could be on the bridge that crossed the river and watch the fireworks go off overhead. Lovely place, then.
He also said, "Don't CALIFORNICATE" Oregon .
The governor was with that girl on the thumb nail. That is what he was talking about.
You are right. Good reason. I remember him. We didn't want all the progressive Californians to come here and turn it into another California, driving up property prices to the point people had to leave their homes because they couldn't afford the tax price along with the increased cost of living when their wages didn't increase to keep up with it. That's exactly what they did by coming to the Willamette Valley. Many people who lived in their homes and farms their whole lives were pretty much driven out. Too sad.
I lived in Corvallis for 15 years before moving to the Bend area. It’s like moving to another state completely, and it isn’t just the landscape. I think you could almost do an entire video on Bend/Central O vs western Oregon. You keep pointing out how expensive Portland has become, but never mention that that *average* home price in Bend has almost eclipsed $800k with outlying residences deep into the millions. I’m currently working on a $21 million house on the outskirts of town that is going up in an entire neighborhood of $10 mil+ houses. The Californians are here, and they are flexing HARD. The service industry is dying because the workers can’t afford to live within 20 miles of Bend, etc.
Briggs, is a big city flake.
I understand it's so much easier to blame all of California for the ridiculous price increases. I did the same thing when Bay Area ( SF ) people started buying homes in my neighborhood. I sold my house and bought a travel trailer.
Same has happened in Colorado mtn towns. Sadly it’s just a product of our capitalist based economy, nothing wrong w rich people living there. If I had the money I’d be somewhere else too
Yep and this InFLUencer is advocating, (while she makes ad $) more Cali crap to move up here. They already ruined Bend. Where next? And Bend is OK, but so overrated now.
I was interested in Oregon, and did a state-wide housing search on the usual sites. Costs were 2x-3x what they are here in TX for similar housing and I'm in an expensive burb of Dallas... No thanks. Looks like I need to find somewhere else.
I lived in Portland for many years back in the 90s and it was one of the cleanest, and most gorgeous cities you could live in.
Back in the day....
@@dionclark6581 my brother went back and told me I wouldn’t even recognize the place.
@@emcsquared8681 all the major Western cities in the PNW are like that now. Used to be a quiet, artsy, eccentric part of the US. Then the tech boom happened and it all went to sh*t.
@derek96720 Actually it went to sHiT when the riots occurred.
My older sister had lived in Vancouver, Portland and Seattle. Now, she lives in New Orleans. She was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington like me. I been living in Vancouver rest of my life. Well, I was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington. My sister lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, she moved there in May 2018.
One of the nicest days I've ever spent was on a beach near Newport, Oregon. About 78° and only saw one other person walking by the entire afternoon
68° for the rest of the week
I remember a time, maybe thirty years ago when folks from Oregon were getting tired of Californians moving up there. They were like, "Don't come here. We don't want you."
Nothing has changed.
@@caydenthompson126 As Tom McCall would want.
Not all Californians, just the ones that vote for stupid Democrats that destroy the state.
They sure appreciate the real estate appreciation.😀😀
Not really, unless they are leaving to get out of there due to the overcrowding now.
Oregon is a beautiful US state. I had a chance to make a long road trip there during one of my business trips (the work was done and the flight back to Europe was planned in a week.. Perfect opportunity for a trip 😁).
There's everything there - mountains, deserts, lakes, sea, just beautiful.
I will definitely come back one day with my family. Greetings from Slovakia!
And I love Slovakia! I was lucky enough to visit Bratislava in July. Beautiful city, lovely people and delicious food❤️
It truly is beautiful. Sad it’s a Blue state and going down the tube like Seattle, San Francisco, LA etc. No law, no order, no repercussions to criminals committing crimes. Liberals legalized just about every drug possible. Homeless situation out of control. Huge increase in crime. Riots and defund the police garbage. Schools teaching liberal/ socialist b.s. to the kids. It’s a disaster zone now. We lived there for eleven years and had enough- moved to a Red state 6 months ago and will never go back there again. It’s very sad as the natural beauty of that state is absolutely wonderful. You get what and who you vote for. We finally let our feet doing the voting for us. Aloha.
@@bill648I agree with you. We visited Oregon a few months ago and loved it so much that we’ve considered moving there. The main thing holding us back (apart from such a big move) is concern over the homeless and drug issues. Politically, it seems like a mess. The nature is stunning though.
We are in Ohio, so the politics are pretty good, but the little bit of nature we have left is absolutely flooded with people, and is usually near a freeway. It’s a hard balance.
@@bill648. You can keep your red state! It’s because Oregon is blue that we have been able to preserve our natural beauty.
The red people wanted LNG terminals on the Columbia River. We fought them till they went broke and left!
I'm originally from Portland, Oregon and now I live in Eugene Oregon. no place on earth can ever compare to the beauty that Oregon has.
My husband has an grandma from his mom side. She moved to Oregon a few years ago. She said it more peaceful and a lot of nature. In the area she lives. I grew up in Lodi CA. Most of my life. I did live in acampo, Lockeford, and Stockton. For a short while. Though now that I have 2 kids. My hometown doesn’t feel like my home town anymore. It’s small and everyone knows everyone. Yes my whole family lives here. But for awhile it’s not been the same. I find myself looking at videos like this and think what would it would be like to live there. I have a friend that moved to Placerville recently and took me to her new home. Surrounded by mountains and trees I actually felt peace and free. It’s was a 2 hour drive from my hometown. I was there with my husband and kids too. Thanks to my friend I was able to experience something I didn’t know I needed. I feel that feeling it’s hard to explain
The Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon are beautiful, there’s lots of hiking and recreation,it’s southeast that’s desert like. The people in Eastern Oregon are pretty great people.
Yep, this guy clearly doesn't know much about the eastern two thirds of Oregon. It is people with his mentality that have pushed eastern Oregonians to look elsewhere for fair representation.
I disagree with your statement. The folks who want to create a greater Idaho have motives that benefit no one.
@@thorgrimr4425 We in Grant County along the Blue Mountains do not want to create a greater Idaho! I have lived at the base of Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon (Grant County) for over 20 years, my husband all his life and most of us do not want to chop Oregon in half. Especially my husband, hates Idaho. Horrible work polices.
@@davidirwin4067Not true! We in Grant County along the Blue Mountains do not want to create a greater Idaho! We voted on it and it didn't pass in our county! I have lived at the base of Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon (Grant County) for over 20 years, my husband all his life and most of us do not want to chop Oregon in half. Especially my husband, hates Idaho. Horrible work polices.
Clearly didn’t do their research about the hiking and natural beauty and forests in the east side. 😢
This is the first youtuber that I have seen that has done a good job describing Oregon. Well done! Most people over-emphasize the beauty and ignore the downsides. As someone that has lived in Oregon for more than a decade, if you are considering moving to Oregon, this is the video for you!
I thought he made too many mistakes. I have lived here my entire 69 years of life and lived all 4 directions and in between. He was wrong about some things.
@@Renilou2 what are those things? I'm genuinely interested to hear what you thought he did wrong.
Hello from the Oregon Coast 😎I retired here in Florence, a small rural town 4 years ago.
Peaceful community where people respect one another and the environment. I walk the amazing beaches daily. Florence is the Coastal Playground ! Grateful to live the final chapter of my life in a beautiful place and have peace of mind.
FYI: What happens in Portland stays in Portland ! We do not associate with that chaos.
Portland is three hours/2oo hundred miles away from Florence. Thank goodness !
My husband is in love with Oregon, I have never been there. We are in CA, planning to move to Oregon. Would love to meet ppl to help us figure out where to buy house
Any suggestions? Thx in advance 🙏
Same! @@anngeg9639
Hello! A good buddy of mine who is no longer in the service lives in Florence. His pictures are amazing.
We used to live in Beaverton for 11 years. A big suburb of Portland. The major issues of homelessness and crime have spilled out of Portland to the surrounding communities. It is Not isolated to just the city of Portland. Only a matter of time before it stretches further. And the voters of Portland are the ones who control the vote in the state with the largest populations. Don’t be fooled into thinking it won’t affect you. Just a matter of time.
It’s everyone moving there- gentrification all over the state now. The only people moving out of that state are native Oregonians. 😢 Housing is a nightmare and no longer affordable for those that grew up there.
Native Oregonian here - I would like to point out that most people are born and raised in a small town not that they all move to a small town. Then people that are born and raised in small towns usually stay or go back because they have family there, connections, roots, property, etc..
Exactly correct. We also are not without our share of mountains and forests as he implied.
@@Renilou2some of the most interesting geography of Oregon is east of the cascades… Steens, Blue mountains, Wallowa mountains. And also other than hood most of the impressive mountains are central Oregon, east of the major population zones…
I use to love going to Portland in the early 2000s. I wish it hadn't gotten so bad.
It’s now the armpit of oregon!
I’d say sh!thole of the NW.
@@edwardabrams4972ehh I live here and it's not the worst. So many people moved here though, which did make it worse. Traffic is awful.
@@ODrane yeah they could live in methford 😢
@@ODranemethford
You should remind all the more recent California transplants, while they're driving, to slow down, don't weave in and out of traffic and certainly don't tail gate other drivers. There's been a significant increase of impatient California transplants over the past 5 years.
Most Portlanders drive like they are shopping at Costco, slow, distracted, and lacking situational awareness. You'll see out-of-state drivers speeding and tailgating because so many locals think Speeding is a capital offense, and intentionally drive 5-10 miles under the speed limit.
Portlanders are also infamous for matching speeds with cars in other lanes. You'll see locals hop in the left lane to pass, even if they're only doing a quarter mile per hour faster, with no concern for what everyone else is doing around them. Maybe people are tailgating you because you're driving badly?
(Before you cry "Californian!", I moved here from Kansas in 1989. I learned to drive in the snow, which apparently few people from the West Coast know how to do.)
Lol, us Oregonians down by the Californian border always complain they drive to slow! We get the road is right next to the cliff but you can go just a little bit faster. They’ll go almost the speed limit on straightaways then slow down 20mph for the tiniest curves. They also tend to camp the passing lane for no reason at all, and still go slow in it.
@@Zayzanater I can only assume they are driving up to visit family in Portland because that describes Portland drivers too. :/
@@Zayzanater tourists, more than likely just passing through for the first time, not wanting to die.
@@3DEditor Going the speed limit won’t kill you. Plus the amount of RVs going through is terrible recently, and they refuse to go above 30mph on a road with a speed limit of 50mph and refuse to pull over, even with giant turn outs.
I visited Oregon several years ago with my ex, just to see Crater Lake. I have to say, Crater Lake is just about the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...photos do NOT do it justice! We stood on the rim next to the lodge when we first got there, along with several other people. As we all gazed upon the lake, we found ourselves whispering, like you would in church. Breathtaking.
Definitely! Honeymooned at the lodge. Reminds me of the lodge in "The Shining"......beautiful and mysterious. We were on the Harley and dressed for summer. It was June and snowing. We were soooo cold. We used to ride snowmobiles from nearby Diamond Lake to Crater Lake. In the dead of winter most of Crater Lake is shut down. Standing on the rim of Crater Lake in February in the snow with NO ONE around is surreal.
@@margaretlally9747 Funny enough, the lodge in the shining is also in Oregon. Timberline lodge on Mt Hood.
Visit Tahoe. Crater Lake looks like a pond
I’ve lived in OR since 2002, did not grow up here but moved here for a guy and loved it. Just a little tired of the 7-8 months of rain but it makes us appreciate the sunny days more. I agree with you, I especially love that it takes 20 minutes to get to a hike it. You literally can drive 1 hr to Mt hood for a ski and 2 ish hrs west to the beach. The coast is calm and not over crowded although it gets pretty windy in most coastal towns. I love all the lushy greens and fresh air that since moving up her from CA I can say I dont get those seasonal allergies as often anymore. If I ever move out of OR it would have to be a state similar to OR.
It does not rain as much as you stated. No way.
What about jobs in pendleton oregon?
born & raised in oregon, started my family in eugene & portland, moved to south florida in 2017. Oregon's quality of life is far above Florida's. But you only have one life and we need to see different things while we have the ability to make something of our lives.
Born and raised in California. So the first vacation house I bought was in Roseburg Oregon!! After 10 years, had to sell it due to health issues, but even now, 12 years later, I still miss that town. Every chance I get, I still go up there just to see what's happening in town.
Thanks Briggs! I'm in the process of moving from Everett, WA to PDX. I use to live in PDX in the 80s and boy howdy things have changed. But I'm glad to be coming back to my native state.
The southern Oregon, Medford area wasn’t mentioned much on the video. We have amazing outdoor activities all year. Annual rain is only about 23 inches a year and around 195 days of sunshine!!! Lower crime obviously than the pix area but just as beautiful. We also have theater, arts, a great wine country and craft beet community. This area has risen in prices a lot over the years as others find about all that it offers,
Funny I have heard Medford being called Methford.
@@annhowcroft9493 And Deadford
Medford sucks! All they got there is that Romeo and Juliet event. Lol. Or in and out burger
@@annhowcroft9493please stay up north in Portland. We don’t need you down here
Agreed
Born and raised in South Florida and I’m looking seriously about moving to Oregon.
I really love Eastern Oregon the best. Give me Hells Canyon, Wallowas, and The Blue Mountains anytime. The Oregon Outback in Southeast Oregon is really special. A high desert experience. Forget about Western Oregon and Portland in particular. Been there, done that.
Dido :) 👊🏼if you know, you know.
Best comment and so true! But it's better if the West side people don't know. Let them stay in their "paradise."
@@sonicleaves love it 😊
Yeah, I really like Joseph Oregon and the Wallowa Lake and mountains, Cool town ,beautiful area.
Regarding the Cascadia Subduction Zone: I think he put too much emphasis on the tsunami versus the earthquake. As he said, the Tsunami may not have much impact inland from the coast. However, the earthquake could demolish homes, buildings, and other infrastructure on a massive scale in Oregon's urban and suburban areas.
I talked with a geo tech engineer a number of years ago about what it will be like in the Portland area when the subduction zone unzips. He said that it will be like a 5 minute long, 7.0 earthquake. There are a lot of buildings that will fall down, mostly older ones that aren't built to the modern codes. A lot of homes will be damaged as well, and older ones not secured to the foundation will slide off and collapse. Most of the bridges in western Oregon will fail and many on the highways over the Cascades will also be impassable due to bridge failures.
Oregon has been beefing up US 97 through Central Oregon, as well as the Redmond airport, to deal with the inevitable disaster. There's a great documentary by Oregon Public Broadcasting called "Unprepared." If you live in Western Oregon, it's worth an hour of your time to watch it.
Some geologists believe it will be in excess of an 8.0+ magnitude. Damage and impacts will affect the region from northern CA to British Columbia, especially west of the Cascade Range. No roads & bridges. The tsunami will hit the coastal towns (one-two punch) within ten minutes of the slip.
The problem is that we don't know if it will strike in 2 years or 200 years. Guess our number's up, when it's up!
Well, the quake could hit now! Or now! Or now! Or... You get the point.
Linn county will turn to giant quick sand
Raised in central Oregon and lived there for the first 22 years of my life. I say things have changed drastically. What use to be our fun little playground is now gone. The forests are all being cut down like crazy, people that just moved there or visiting aren’t taking care of the environment and a lot of our lakes are losing water. Sad it see it happen but that’s the price of growing. Don’t think I’ll ever move back.
Most of your problem has to due with the states north and south of you and the political parties that run the three of them.
@@rayc.1396 not true… all 3 states have been blue since the beginning of time. It has everything to do with it just being an attractive place to live. We get 4 seasons, amazing lakes, mountains and extremely safe. Social media really helped it too.
@@TheSportsfansSamnot true. Oregon was primarily Republican between the 1880s and 1986. Voting Democrat only six times during that period. Starting in the 1970s Democrats from California started pouring in and by the late 1980s Oregon was primarily Democrat. Being old I actually remember it happening. Just like people in Idaho there was a lot of hand wringing but there was nothing that could be done about it. Same thing happened in Washington.
Boy do I agree in the late 60s ca used to come and trash the camp grounds,could always see where ca camped,ruined grounds,trash all over,then the tree Barron's got greety and the forest was destroyed.
Be too. Bend baby
My auntie easily get accustomed to the variable weather of oregon since 1986 and now she found her second new home a peaceful beautiful quiet city...🤗🤗😉😉😘😘🥰
Personally I absolutely love Oregon!! I don’t care what anyone else says about it. I grew up in Maine and after I got out of the service I moved out to California and have been living on this side for almost fourteen years. For some reason I’ve found myself attracted to the PNW. Maybe because it was British territory in colonial times. Or it’s similar to the Northeast. I recently came up for a visit and went to Bend, Brownsville, did the Enchanted Forest, Cannon Beach, Astoria, Great video man!
I was raised just SE of Enchanted forest, came back to the house I was raised in after pop passed away. My dad was a Cartoonist/Graphic Designer, he helped Roger Tofte with artwork for enchanted forest when it was being built. I still remember getting the tours of things being built long before the place opened.
The Enchanted Forest is wonderful. Unique. It's a "back to your childhood" kind of place. Absolutely love it!
Recently moved to Oregon, close to the Tri-Cities in WA. It honesty feels like Colorado in a way out here lol. Planning on exploring most of the state near the end of the summer
Hermiston & Umatilla have been growing rapidly, that's for sure. Just wild amounts of development beyond what seems reasonable for such a isolated and small area of high desert. Pendleton strangely has been ignored for development though, when it is the dominant and historic city of the east. Now Milton-Freewater on the other hand is the town people don't even realize exists out there somehow, despite it's size being nestled in the ridges to the north of the Wallowas.
@@TheCriminalViolin yeah, I've been told by coworkers that the area is growing a lot. I won't be surprised to see major developments in the next couple of years, maybe some development across the Columbia River near the I-82, but I'm not sure how the terrain is since that drive feels barren from Hermiston to thr Tri-Cities
Former Pennsylvania resident, now living in Eugene, I can say without hesitation that Oregon winters are very mild compared to back east. Great fishing 15 minutes from the house. No sales tax is a big deal if you are retired.
No income tax is MUCH MUCH more important for my wife and me, but the absence of sales tax will tend to yield bigger savings for households with lower incomes.
Better could be living in WA near the OR border. Pay no state income tax, then shop and dine in OR with no sales tax.
Where in Pennsylvania are you from ?
@@dcasper8514 We moved from Berks County. Originally from Philadelphia.
@@nonewherelistens1906 did you mean Bucks county?
@@Perun.Tha.Unvaxxd No, Berks County, where Reading in situated. We lived 15 miles east of Reading.
I'm from CA. We vacationed in OR often and drove N on 5 even more. We moved to Bandon ... I am happily shocked by how rural most of Oregon is. I really miss doordash though 😢
can't get much better than Bandon, if one is okay with coastal weather...
I liked Bandon and Coos Bay. Wasn’t sure about medical care though.
Doordash is available in several Oregon Coast cities, hopefully Bandon will be next.
You hit the nail on the head! Health care is three hours away
Doordash?! How lazy!
Oregon also has McMenamins!! I love McMenamins. Fantastic beer, restaurants and hotels!
Hammerhead Ale!!!😀❤️❤️😀
I lived in CA for 24 years. Kept hearing about the "Big One." Then the '89 quake happened, and scientists started say that wasn't the "Big One." You won't scare me away by telling me about a big earthquake. At my age, you're not going to scare me with a death threat.
Oregon is so beautiful and different it would be a dream to live there.
No matter what don't move into the city of Portland or Gresham! Anywhere else is OK
Can i ask why not those area?@gonefishing5434
Born and raised in Portland Oregon
Spot on. Lived in Banks Oregon 20 years and Oregon - Portland and McMinnville for 8 years. Always loved Oregon because of oceans, mountains. People are come as you are atmosphere so you feel welcome anywhere. No sales tax is nice. But the bad rap Portlands getting these last couple years makes me question if I could retire here or not and Jan thru May can be very rainy with hardly any sun/ can do a lot of damage on emotions those months. Would love to see Portland clean up it’s act for the rest of us Oregonians.
I am predicting that western Oregon and Washington state will become even more popular with the new summer heat that we are all experiencing. How many days over 110 has Phoenix had now in a row? Just saying.
You do realize for Phoenix, that is normal for summer there, right? haha. The Willamette Valley averages since 2006 or so in the upper 80s/mid 90s in the summers now, and the rain everyone always harps about actually hasn't been a thing at all since then either. Used to have or historic and normal average of 42.5" of it a year up here in the Portland area, but ever since then have averaged around 15"-25" a year and VERY spread out rather than all mainly in late autumn, through early-mid spring. We went from having a average total days a year 100 or above around 3-5 to more around 8-15 a year, too. And a Oregon's theme is to constantly complain about the weather, as as soon as they get the weather they wanted and beg for, they immediately are tired of it/hate it and want the other weather they were complaining about not liking all over again lol. Its annoying. As a lifelong Oregonian myself? I'm haunted by it haha.
@@TheCriminalViolin As a former resident of Yuma (former US Marine), I know AZ heat. And no, it’s not the normal to have so many consecutive days over 110 degrees.
Yup, Armageddon is on the way. Best to take a c-pill before it happens. Best for all of us. @@JJM_PNW
The more popular a state becomes the more it goes downhill. I suspect Boise will be somewhat like Portland soon. Seems like people move into a state, exploit it and harvest it, then complain how bad it is and move on to harvest a new place
It depends on which Phoenix you mean. I live in Phoenix Oregon and it hit 117.2° on my front porch on June 27, 2021. So it's hot 🥵🔥 everywhere, including the coast. I've been in Brookings - in March! - when it was 92° due to a freak weather event that happens there on occasion. Climate change is everywhere.
Born and raised in Portland Oregon, then Gresham and happy valley, beautiful state
We live on Alsea Bay on the Central Oregon Coast. Tsunami’s are definitely something I worry about. We have a lot next-door that is at an elevation of 500 feet and we put an off grid airstream up there that I’m hoping will be our escape plan if/when the big Juan (De Fuca) hits 😮
A tsunami concern is real and 500 feet likely may not be enough.... pay attention to what animals are doing and head for the hills early. The predictions when it happens are dire
I lived in North bend for 15 years, 20 years ago and it is a concern to all there. But the Willamette Valley has a higher risk of Earthquake. Huge faults go right under, especially through Silverton, Scotts Mills, Portland and on to areas of Washington.
It looks amazing. Thank you for the video!
We visit Oregon by motorhome often because we have a daughter in S. Portland, and son in Garibaldi/Tillamook and a father in law just south of Brookings in Crescent City...Am from the Calif. far East Bay Area ...We love Oregon !!! Especially the Coast and State Parks and HWY 101 ride...We have never had any problems there even Portland which we have been to many times especially when daughter was going to Portland St....We do alot of Casino camping for free night stays when traveling to and from our destinations...We also love to be anywhere west of I-5 (especially state parks) during hot summer time as the weather is always acceptable there...Will take the Oregon Coast over the Calif. coast any day...I fit right in with all the Breweries there, my kind of gig....
I lived in Tualatin Oregon, a suburb of Portland for 3 years. Being from the Central Valley of California I will tell you that in order to enjoy that part of Oregon you MUST love gray skies and rain ALL the time. Do NOT underestimate the dreariness of it. My experience of moving from one of the sunniest cities in the US to one of the cloudiest was not an enjoyable one. It's funny because I live in a city this guy rips on but I'm less than an hour from the Sierra Nevada mountains, Yosemite, and the Sequoia national forest, all of which have more natural beauty than anything the Portland aka Stumptown area has to offer. Oh and the beaches that are a couple of hours away aren't rainy and cold 9 months of the year.
I wish a few million other Californians had the same attitude you have about Oregon. We'd be a lot better off.
it is actually sunny and warm for 6 months out of the year here, but yea, i would never want to live in tualitan. if you can afford to live in the central coast of CA, then hell, why not. it’s incredible there
Oregon is amazing; I moved from Austin, Texas in 2013 and cringe when I think of visiting a place I lived for 32 years. Whew, I escaped to Oregon ! Yippie!!!
I want to move from Texas to Oregon what is the best area to move to??
Crater Lake is a caldera. A volcano that emptied itself out and collapse on itself.
If I’m correct, the Movie Animal House was filmed an University of Oregon. Graveyard Cars are located in Springfield, Oregon.
A lot of the movie was filmed around Eugene, and if I recall correctly, the parade scene was in Cottage Grove.
@@j.patrickmoore9137That's true, downtown Cottage Grove. I met two people who were in the movie.
My family migrated from Walnut Creek, California to Bend Oregon back in the mid 70's. Bend, imo is becoming over developed and I moved to Corvallis. It's such a beautiful little town with a beautiful university a stones throw away! Plus college football is pretty awesome 😎 I ride a bike around town in the spring and summer (and fall) winters here are pretty wet & stormy but I like it too!!
Basically OREGON is a really great place to live ❤
Southern oregon is now northern cali.
Great place cept for all the people.
I did my doctorate at the U of O in Eugene in the middle 1980s. I loved the Eugene area. The rain from about October - May can get to you, but it also can be invigorating. I must confess that I was never able to take a shine to the 8-10" banana slugs.
About mid June through September is absolutely gorgeous with temps generally ranging from the low 60s to the high 80s. If you have experienced communing with nature (forests, waterfalls, rivers, lakes, ocean, mountains), you know what I mean about how it soothes your soul. Drive 60 miles west and you're at the ocean. Drive 2 hours east and you're in the charming little mountain town of Sisters.
It's a lot different here now. It's a lot hotter and we don't get anywhere near the amount of rain we need anymore.
@@spibachIt’s still amazing. Compared to other states.
True.
@@SnowEclipsse
Its not nearly as rainy as it used to be.
Eugene was originally named MUDHOLE by the early beaver trappers
Though "Portland ain't Oregon" (so true!), the Eugene area and the Salem area come the closest politically & culturally to Portland than the remainder of the state's towns and smaller communities do. But crime, drugs and homelessness is a worsening problem statewide.
Oregon currently is undergoing a net migration loss, according to an early 2023 article.
We're moving to Camas, WA from Beaverton. No state income tax, no sales tax across the bridge in Oregon. The thing I dislike most about Oregon is the weather. Nine months of cold and rain, three months of 90 plus heat.
Your employer has a location for you in WA? I am considering the same move…
@@weswest8666 My wife and I both work remotely from home. It just made sense. Why waste 10% of your salary on state taxes if you don't have to? The Washington side of the gorge is a lot nicer than the Oregon side. Camas is a beautiful small town, and Vancouver isn't that bad anymore, especially East Vancouver.
I live in Vancouver and I would say that is too negative a description. The PNW west of the cascades has warmer winters than most of the country. And I would say likewise the summers are not as hot as most of the country. We do get a lot of rainy days from Nov-Jun but not heavy rainstorms very often.
@@spafon7799 Yeah, but how hot is it today? 97 at my house. Never used to be this hot up here on a regular basis. I don't mind the cold and rain as much as the heat.
@@spafon7799its also grey. No ☀️. I don’t mind the ☔️ so much, but lack of sunlight makes me go Loo Loo.
Portland, Oregon is beautiful town. I've been to Portland a lot. I was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington and I live in Vancouver, Washington my whole life.
Great video. I visited OR a few months ago for the first time and was super impressed. People were strangely friendly and the outdoor scenery was ridiculously beautiful. I liked the DIY feel and small businesses in the Portland area. Can't wait to go back again! ✌️
😂😂😂 friendly
People are not friendly are u high
Summer… is “Nice”.
should have said THEY are high@@yamiyo6050
probably more friendly than they are in vegas;)@@connectingseas7173
I am not from Oregon but it is definitely top 5 city and nature wise in the states. The people and the vibe of that city. Wow🌹.
Oregon is a State. And Portland is a mess.
I’ve been intrigued by oregon, it seems like a state that has tons to do outdoors. i don’t think i can withstand texas heat for too long.
Look towards North Carolina if Oregons expensive
@@diodelvino3048 home prices in oregon seem to be similar to my area in texas anyway, but I’m mostly interested in cities in the pacific northwest due to their climate.
As long as you can deal with not seeing the sun for 4-6 months a year and then getting minimal.
Really depends on the area of Oregon. Southern Oregon get little rain all year. we are generally in the 90’s and low 100’s all summer. Sunshine most of the year but the heat can be bad.
I've been to Texas once. I was in Dallas in April. I went out the door of my hotel and it was like going into a sauna. I far prefer the weather in the PNW.
Planning on retirement in the Gold Beach, Broikings area of Oregon. Thank you for the video!
Despite the negative press, the number of people dying from dysentery on their way to Oregon is actually quite low.
We get the same snow thing up here in the Seattle area. Folks around here drive like the road warrior when it rains, but one snowflake falls & cars end up in ditches on the side of the road, abandoned. Pretty amazing...
Great content. Please do a video like this for WA state. TY :)
Hey, can you do a video that is VERY SPECIFIC to renters? Like TEN BEST CITIES FOR RENTERS
I drove from Medford to Coos Bay. The middle of the state scared me. I was watching for Big Foot to come out of those dense trees.
😂
We went through Portland on a little trip last year. I think it's really nice that they let people camp along the freeway. Does the city provide restrooms for the campers? And trash services?
I’m hoping you are being sarcastic and aren’t really that dumb
not sure but at least they provided (when I was there last) showers and rest stops for people on the road, coffee too . the way to go, thinking of others, being friendly.......helping others instead of the way Ca. is - over regulated for sure with Pelosi's nephew at the helm .
No tents anymore, new laws passed recently to clean all up
I love living in Oregon! Only other states that I would want to live in are probably Washington, Colorado, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont… I think that does it.
Just got back from Bend today. TRAFFIC WAS INSANE!! CROWDS everywhere - on a MONDAY! 20-30 minute waits most restaurants. We went to Shari's this morning, McKay's Cottage Restaurant was packed! Shari's had one server! They put a sign on the door. Yes, It took an hour to get served. Re-thinking moving there. Everyone we talked to said it has really gotten worse this past year. Condos going up all over town. Our hotel maid told us it takes her sometimes over an hour to get to Redmond from north Bend and rents are horrible.
Capitalism 101
Rents are terrible all over the entire state with free rentals. That's part of the homeless problem.
The cost of living there is insanely high. Probably approaching among the highest in the country.
I'm proud to live in Oregon my whole life. I'm not moving out of this state unless the country goes crazy. My favorite part about Oregon is the Oregon Coast. It's fun to visit there.
The worst thing about Oregon has only worsened over my 50 years here: too many Californians moving here. Also many of the largest cities have terrible problems with homeless and drugs.
5th generation Northern Californian. Live on the border. Most Californians that go to Oregon aren't really from California but stay here for a time before moving to Oregon. Portland nightmare is due to the laws you folks passed up there. OH, but what am I hearing, blame your state's problems on someone else. How Oregonian of you. Hay man, take responsibility and clean it up! Quit blaming others for your problems.
A-typical answer lol if you ask if they are from California moat say no we are from east caost or mid west, how do you think California got so big. Typical Oregonian!
Briggs! You and your employee crack me up every time you change the thumbnail!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I can’t breathe!!
Great job Briggs ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Thank you!! 😁
Born and raised in NE Portland now I live in Corvallis. I love my state.
I have lived in Oregon for over thirty years. I have cut down not one, not two, but three trees in my front yard. No paperwork whatsoever.
Once again, the guy is only giving a Portland point of view in his video.
Used to live in Lake Oswego. We had an alder tree that was dying. The city denied a permit to remove it. When I said it was dying the response was “it isn’t dead yet.” A couple of years after selling and moving to Central Oregon I happened to look on Google Earth and saw that EVERY tree in the back yard had been removed. I could only conclude that permission was not requested.
Lived in OR from 2014-2022, loved the summers and the food, hoping to live there again but only during the summers
l arrived in Oregon for what I thought would be one year...and 50 years later I'm still here. I've been all over the nation, and the world, and there's no place I'd rather be.
28-year resident here. One thing that you kind of missed is that it doesn't rain as much as people think. We're not even in the top 30. NYC gets more than 1/3 more rain than Portland every year (and isn't known for rain). We are only #30 in days with rain. What we DO have a lot of are cloudy days in the winter - plus, winter days are an hour shorter than they are in the southern US. In the winter, we drive to work in the dark and drive home in the dark. This is what drives many newcomers away - seasonal affective disorder. On the bright side, summer days are an hour longer than they are in the south, and a lot more pleasant!
The rain we get in the winter is often drizzle which doesn't add up like the downpours elsewhere.
I grew up in Troutdale, at the mouth of the gorge, and I like to think I’ll eventually move back to Oregon. I love that I grew up in Oregon.
Opening shot is from my favorite river in the world.The Metolius river from the bridge at Wizard falls.
Was just there a couple of weeks ago, yes, it is beautiful!
Camp Sherman!!! 😯😯💚💚🙂🙂
Native Texas here and will be retiring soon from the Air Force. The wife and I have our eyes set on making Oregon our home. I visited for a month in 2014 and feel its my destiny to return.
These videos are great!
I love living in OR. I use to hate the politics here. Now I love and embrace them. I hope the antics of Salem keeps people away. Our secretary of state was let’s go for taking 10 K a month from a pot company. The state reps got busted for taking expensive alcohol from the Oregon liquor board. Then fired the liquor board so they wouldn’t get in trouble. I live in the i5 Corridor. I’m retiring to the east side of the state to live on the side of a mountain in the middle of nowhere.
I'm from Eugene. I live in Houston now. Moved with my family in the 6th grade. I miss Oregon, but it sure seems to have changed since the 80s. I still try to vacation up there when I can.
I take umbrage with your tone of voice when describing the eastern part of the state. It is a different climate than west of the cascade mountain range: high desert. It offers some of the best rock climbing anywhere. Camping is unbelievable because there is no light pollution to destroy your view of the stars. Fossil hunting. Hiking. Mountain biking. (on second thought... it's terrible. stay away. don't come here. ;-)
Just spent a week on the beach at Depot Bay. My first trip to Oregon. Definitely not my last!
Such a charming area!
Depoe
My daughter moved to Portland last fall and she's trying to get my wife and I to move there. I like it, but the real estate is expensive and the property taxes are nuts. Just not there yet. I Don't want to spend 750K on a house with 11K in taxes and it needs 200k in work.
And the house ain't even all that. Unless you're super well off and get a huge mansion.
@@edisonsantana4261 That was her experience, but they lived in the Marshall Park area. They have since moved out and gone back to Iowa where her husband is from. I prefer Portland to Iowa or even Arizona where I live now in terms of vibe and diversity/food/beer, but it is expensive. The only downside is the rain half of the year. My arthritis didn't like that. Iowa has its own set of issues. Anyplace does.
Speaking of history, Baker City in Eastern Oregon is named after the only sitting senator to die in battle. He raised a regiment of Oregonians to fight in the civil war and died leading them at the battle of Ball’s Bluff
I'm really surprised we didn't learn about that back in 4th grade, when county history was a requirement...Wow. That was way back in 1977, if I recall right too.
Don't forget Willamete University... the only Ivy League college on the West coast!
Also a good reason to stay is measure 5 and measure 47, limiting property tax increases. Oh, and all beaches are owned by the public!!
Great video Mr. Briggs!!
I LOVE your videos, Mr. Briggs! Most of all, I like your voice - so full of vitality and enthusiasm! And where come up with those crazy scenes for your videos, I'll never know, but they're GREAT!
Outside of Portland, Oregon is a very beautiful state.
Even Portland itself is quite scenic! I used to live up the hill from Downtown and there are trails everywhere in the woods that make you almost feel like you're in the mountains but you can see a whole city below. Of course Portland is super dangerous now and there's a reason why I left.
The Westside of Oregon is almost a different state. Terrable place and people. The otherside is gorgeous and great folks,tons of stuff to do and get back to real life without the cell phone.
@@classactkirkVery true! Eastern Oregon is amazing. I live in Baker City and I love it here.
My family moved to Ashland Oregon back in 2010. Now it is 2023 and there is a lot of smoke. The Rogue Valley just traps smoke like crazy.
As a native Portlander born and raised I found this video to be entertaining, but certainly sprinkled with large doses of propaganda. Let’s walk through some of the more egregious items that were too disingenuous to ignore and highlight actual information:
-- “Portland is known for its progressive and environmentally conscious culture.” That is so yesterday. First, progressive is too conservative a word for Portland’s culture. Second, Portland has completely lost its environmental self-awareness. Walk anywhere in Portland, most especially downtown, and what do you see? Trash everywhere, feces on sidewalks, spent needles. I even had to call the Mayor’s office to complain about tents covering the sidewalk in front of the Oregon Commission for the Blind at SE 12th Avenue and Washington Street, and what did he do about it? You guessed it: nothing. Ideology is so rampant that even blind people get no empathy (thank goodness for the recent ADA lawsuit). The good old days of being "environmentally conscious" are long gone.
-- “Oregon state income tax is pretty high.” Ya think? Last I checked Oregon had the fifth-highest income tax rate in the country at 9.9%. But it’s even worse than that because other states use a highly graduated income tax scale so that poorer people pay generally lower rates than richer, but Oregon kicks its poor people quite hard indeed. For a single filer, Oregon’s income tax rate skyrockets to 8.75% after a mere $10,200 in income. You also suggest Oregon is in the “middle of the pack” when it comes to tax burden, but you are not separating what RESIDENTS pay in tax from what BUSINESSES pay in tax. In a state like Washington, which has no income tax, the overall tax burden is borne far more by the business sector, but those businesses are able to export their tax burden in the form of products sold out of state, compared to Oregon where the tax burden falls much more heavily and broadly on its own residents.
-- “You’re going to be able to find a job and chances are it’s going to be okay pay, too.” Good grief, statistics don’t lie. You’ve said you like decennial census data, so let’s use Bureau of Economic Analysis data from 2020 to compare Multnomah County, where Portland is, to its most closely related peer city, Seattle in King County, Washington. Multnomah County’s 2020 per-capita income was $65,858, while King County was $99,734. The good folks in Seattle have a per-capita income that is 51% higher than Portland. I guess you can call that “okay” pay for Portlanders, but best to be real about how low income levels are.
-- With respect to home ownership, you said Oregon is “too damn expensive.” What you didn’t say is how that expense is greatly compounded by the extraordinary property tax rates borne by Oregonians, especially in Portland. The easiest way to property tax rates is through the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) reported by each county which includes total millage rate (the amount of property tax paid per $1000 assessed valuation). Multnomah County, where Portland is, reported its 2022 millage rate as $26.02 in property tax per $1000 assessed valuation. Compare to Clark County, Washington, just 3,000 feet away from Portland across the Columbia River with more than half-million population, where the reported 2022 millage rate is only $12.56. Clearly, Portlanders are getting screwed by having to pay more than twice as much in property tax than their neighbors (and not surprisingly, Clark County is consequently booming in population and development compared to dying Portland).
Again, this video was entertaining, but unless you're working for Travel Oregon or the Portland Metro Chamber it would be best if you could present straight information to people and eschew propaganda, especially through omission of important information.
I am born and raised Portland. I've lived in Beaverton, The Pearl District, and went to Portland State in the 90s. I also work for PPB until 2019. I know Portland. You are way off on everything you said. I think you were more intrested in crying than actually understanding what this video was all about.
1)“Portland is known for its progressive and environmentally conscious culture.” That is so yesterday. " You are delusional. Both are very strong in Portland and really all of Oregon. The only difference is the focus in the media has shifted to other things plaguing Portland.
2)“Oregon state income tax is pretty high.” Ya think?" Yes, he obviously thinks that or he wouldn't have included it. It's a 10 minute video that is meant to be entertaining and informative. He has to balance entertainment and information. If the man starts rambling off a bunch of numbers people stop watching.
3)“You’re going to be able to find a job and chances are it’s going to be okay pay, too.” Good grief, statistics don’t lie." Again. You are looking for more details than anyone wants that watches his videos. It isn't a 2 hour documentary. It is a 14 minute video with information, a few jokes, and a few stories.
4) "With respect to home ownership, you said Oregon is “too damn expensive.” What you didn't say" Again, more info than needed for this type of video. The video was put up 10 days ago and has 70k views. If he would have added all that garbage it would have half the views because people would watch 25% of the video and move on. That signals to UA-cam people aren't enjoying the video and it stops getting reecomended.
Maybe trying and understand what he is doing before you start looking for something to complain about.
@@crazytrains8054 No problem. I understand where you're coming from. Numbers can be difficult for some people.
@@jabmyarm6446 There ya go. Admitting it is half the battle. Good luck in your math quest.
Thank you. This video is annoying.
I live on the coast and love it.
It’s cheap, gas is cheap, no smog, food is good. Most folks are decent, the raiders not so much but they look straight out of fallout so they are easy to spot.
Wallowa Mts in northeast OR. is as good as it gets for hiking.
Yes! I don't think he's familiar with Eastern Oregon at all.
@@sonicleaves Baker City here, nestled right between the Elkhorns and the Eaglecaps. You are right. He came across as completely clueless about Eastern Oregon.
@@nowthatsjustducky I live in Baker City too and I love it here.
I moved here a year ago from Utah and I have no regrets, which is excellent because the housing market is slowing down and eating at my equity, so I'm pretty much stuck.
Heh - go read about the BIS and their tokenization plan - then you'll have no equity if you dare step out of line ;-)
I recently got back from vacation in Oregon, and I wondered who was crazy enough to traverse through the seemingly barren wasteland of East Oregon. Then I got to Seaside, saw the statue of Lewis and Clark and said “oh yeah!”
In all seriousness though, I wouldn’t mind living in the PNW. It’s just…money and all that! 😩
I guess giant mountain ranges are considered a barren wasteland now. Who knew?
It's worth the money because of the amazing weather, food, and people.
@@sonicleaves Giant forested mountain ranges with alpine lakes and streams even...
Nice information about city ❤
I've lived in the Portland area since 2007. The hipsters and Portlandia vibe have soured completely.
The reason why the idea of states splitting themselves is something nearly impossible to happen, is because according to "legislation", the permission of the parent state is needed, and there is no way that permission would ever be given under any circumstances. So its kind of like a 16 year old girl asking her parents permission to get nipple piercings. The answer is always going to be NO. The only time a state can successfully split is when things get so bad that the people don't care about the before mentioned legislation, and they do the split anyways and look at the rest of the states and say "its done, so just deal with it!". This is how for example, West Virginia split off from its parent state of Virginia. They didn't ask the required permissions from the parent state, they just did the split and said "if you don't like it, too bad!". This is the only way to split a state. So until the people of these movements are willing to risk the dangers and perils of doing it anyways against the wishes of the parent state, then it remains in the "not gonna happen" category.
My aunt lives in an affluent area of Portland, and she wakes up every morning to a homeless person, taking a shit in her flower pots
Fertilizer?
Yecch. Only incident I've heard of like that happening around here in Baker City was the Braswell boy taking a dump on the steps of City Hall or the Courthouse, according to the neighbor lady across the street (who has been his probation officer at least once). I think he finished his time back in September.
Moved to Portland area in 1990 from Rancho Cucamonga, Ca. When looking for houses, I the real estate agent found out we were from California, they’d add $100k to the price. Ended up moving to Beaver Creek outside of Oregon City
Briggs, why are the beginning of your videos a click track? I hear three clicks and the videos start really odd. The bumper you had was good, maybe an update but good.
Third generation Oregonian here. You hit the highlights pretty well, so thanks. The one thing you didn't mention was housing; at least, the rest of the housing in the state. If you're looking to rent for awhile before you buy, you might want to think again. Housing is at a premium on most of the state. The Rogue Valley/Medford area had a 3% vacancy rate a decade ago and it's much tighter now after the Labor Day wildfires that burned through 3 towns down here and several up in the Santiam Pass area. I know of at least one professional who tried to relocate here on a $70,000/annual salary and couldn't find anything for his family (him, wife, 2 children) that they could afford on his wages. 😢 That's part of why there is such a big homeless population across the entire state. 😮 I'm a Gen-Xer and have lived here all but 2 years of my life and this housing issue is bad.
This is a really well made video! I am born and raised Oregonian (eugene/Spfd) and you summed it up well. I’m very conservative (there are a few of us on the west side) and the politics has made me want to move but it’s just so damn beautiful and the weather mild…. I just tolerate the chaos and try to take a hike when I get stressed LOL!
Thanks for a nice representation. Oh yeah, and I avoid PDX like the plague 🤮.
Eugene is trash
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