Ogordont
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Whatever you decide to do retirement wise just remember to stay out of Oregon!! It always rains and seeing the sun is at best a biannual event. Way over hyped and the state park campgrounds are pits. The beaches are horrible and 4 feet deep in Japanese Tsunami garbage and expected to stay that way for years to come. The people are all redneck, tobacco spitting, tooth challenged, displaced wanted poster candidates and ignorant to boot!! We are counting our days and can't wait to get back to California!!
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I didn't see anyplace in Mexico or Costa Rica mentioned. An oversight???
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Ogordont wrote:Whatever you decide to do retirement wise just remember to stay out of Oregon!! It always rains and seeing the sun is at best a biannual event. Way over hyped and the state park campgrounds are pits. The beaches are horrible and 4 feet deep in Japanese Tsunami garbage and expected to stay that way for years to come. The people are all redneck, tobacco spitting, tooth challenged, displaced wanted poster candidates and ignorant to boot!! We are counting our days and can't wait to get back to California!!
I really don't want to encourage you.
But....
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JRS & B
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Evidently the retirees in Oregon, Mexico and Costa Rica all want to keep their secret retirement paradise all for themselves.
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Ogordont wrote:Whatever you decide to do retirement wise just remember to stay out of Oregon!! It always rains and seeing the sun is at best a biannual event. Way over hyped and the state park campgrounds are pits. The beaches are horrible and 4 feet deep in Japanese Tsunami garbage and expected to stay that way for years to come. The people are all redneck, tobacco spitting, tooth challenged, displaced wanted poster candidates and ignorant to boot!! We are counting our days and can't wait to get back to California!!
Outside of these couple items what is really wrong with Oregon?
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Ogordont
Corvallis, OR
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Don't know a whole lot about the rest of this hell hole but there is a list on the internet about Corvallis that pretty much sums it up. Be forewarned it is an eye grabber.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=corvallis%20oregon%20awards&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ci.corvallis.or.us%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dcategory%26sectionid%3D3%26id%3D34%26Itemid%3D2193&ei=XOF0T8-IBcaK2gXZ99mrDQ&usg=AFQjCNHN7m6N_W-yQJMsogqHl
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/04/corvallis_tops_list_of_us_cities_at_low_risk_for_natural_disaster.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/01/weekinreview/01safe.html?hp
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tatest
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Being familiar with about half of the smaller cities, the main thing that surprises me is that somebody's list is actually including some places with populations under a quarter of a million people. Usually the list is about major cities.
In Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas there are dozens more places as nice as Lawrence, Broken Arrow, Conway or Weatherford, with similar low property values, low taxes, and access to a metro area just beyond commuter distance. The problem with some of these places might be that they are only 10-15 years away from being gobbled up by or blended into the city people moved there to get away from.
A big surprise for me was the inclusion of Austin in a list dominated by small cities. Austin was charming 30 years ago, but growth since the '80s has made it expensive and congested. I might as well choose Houston or San Antonio.
Marquette and St Joseph are a couple of my favorite "summer in Michigan" places, but both have long winters with repeated heavy snowfalls (and accumulations in Marquette). 200 inches of snowfall up there means it is 200 inches deep before it starts to melt, LOL.
P.S. I'm not going to start naming the alternatives in this part of the country. Getting onto a "best places" list draws enough people to change the character of a place so much that it no longer belongs on the list.
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The top place in the USA to retire is Rancho Santa Fe. Problem is there are only 1,600 residences and the cheapest one is around 2,000,000 now.
The best place to retire is a personal family preference and what you can afford.
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zman-az
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msmith1199 wrote:and doesn't have tornado or hurricane problems.
Yet you live in a state with earthquakes?
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zman-az
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msmith1199 wrote:and doesn't have tornado or hurricane problems.
Yet you live in a state with earthquakes?
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