We don’t unfortunately. I would love to because it would fetch a pretty penny and basically pay the mortgage for a few day rental. 6 beds 4 baths and 100 feet to the beach…But there are 4 of our families that are owners so there is usually always someone there.
I spent almost 10 years there before being drug back to Nebraska… my wife had NO IDEA how much she would miss it so we are going to buy some land outside of Portland and, since she works from home, commute part of the year (still making it work). Probably snow bird it at first (opposite snow bird) and eventually build a couple small cabins to rent out when we aren’t there (no Airbnb type shit, more of just to help pay the little land we live on). Too many friends out there and we consider it home at this point. Still co-own a home with old roommate in Beaverton area, basically 2 miles south of Downtown Beaverton/Nike campus.
yes they should, ideally my land would be out in this area, but it’s expensive. Was exploring areas west of White Salmon and others, still do. Wine country or coast are also options. Hood River is one of the best towns under 10k in the United States, just a plethora of shit to do from wine tasting, to museums, to all the outdoor activities. I believe it’s the home of wind-surfing too.
My ONE hesitation for living on the coast (which is my wife’s #1 area) is that giant 600 subduction plate. I get insurance, etc, but man when that happens it’s going to be an insane amount of time for things to recover. :/
It is terrifying but there’s nothing I can do so you never really think about it. I love the coast though and really couldn’t imagine living anywhere else in the world.
Oh, absolutely. I’m (if you have ever read the earthquake thread) extremely well versed in the entire subject. Tornados here don’t bother me, and I know they can wipe out shit in an instant. My biggest worry (among the thousands who will die) is investing into an area and then having it all go away so quickly. I’m sure that’s similar to hurricanes and other shit, but the ability of shit to get there is going to have to come by the ocean when it happens because you won’t find a road that is accessible to the coast within…possibly weeks. **and helicopter although that will be used more for rescue, not resources
If I die, I die. Plus we have battery powered emergency alert radios in every room and can make it about 200 feet up a hill in less than 10 minutes on foot. Well to your point, Astoria/Warrenton is fucking awesome.
Oh, it’s not about the being scared to get up a hill, or even dying, it’s the ‘fuckkkkkk, invested in this area and now. God damnit.’ But, like I said, it’s not something that has prevented me from still not having it on our list. The Oregon coast, outside a few tourist traps, is fucking amazing. Astoria/Warrenton is amazing. I’m also a bit more of a mountain person. The PNW was the first coast area I fell in love with. Beaches with loads of people generally fucking suck, but the mountains and shit right next to it with cliffs, sublime.
Yeah I get it, I guess you just roll the dice sometimes. It has def freaked the fuck out of my wife though. I love the coast for about half of the year, the other half the rain would get to me. But, with climate change, Im sure we will see the classic oregon coast rain dwindle. duc15 is everything super fucking dry up in your neck of the woods too? There is like no morning mist, brown lawns and even the salal is dying back. Never seen anything like it.
the lash week have actually been kinda wet. Sunday and today was mist and rain all day basically. Super humid of course.
We got a couple moist days in the past week here in Coos Bay. It is super dry overall though. Someone over by the reservoir had a campfire get out of control earlier in the week that was contained pretty quickly, could’ve been a huge disaster though. I cannot stress enough how much summer here kicks the shit out of summer anywhere else in the US. We live in a 120 year old non-AC house that would not be livable without AC most places I’d imagine.
I feel like it probably gets a little hotter there but yes Santa Cruz/Monterey is obviously quite nice. Not really somewhere most folks could afford in my limited experience though.
This might be the next place we try to go for a beach trip, so expect a bunch of annoying DMs if you wouldn't mind.
It’s nice. I don’t know if it’s “bucket list” nice. That’s like Thailand/Tibet or something to me lol. That being said come on down!!
Finally got to hike up a chunk of Mt. Hood, wound up picking a trail that was in extremely shitty condition though. Thankfully I bought some decent hiking boots, pants, and water reservoir before this which helped as this was the most intensive hike I've done yet (slowly trying to get into being more outdoorsy), there were multiple chunks where the grade was around 30%. The cool thing was that I didn't know it linked up with the Pacific Crest Trail, just learned that is like the Appalachian trail of the West Coast (yes I'm learning very obvious shit to people who grew up here).
Last look at me! photo dump. Did a big loop based off a hiking book starting at Wahkeena Falls that ends with Multnomah Falls, you see five water falls around a 5.5 mile hike. Also saw a ton of old fur trees burnt from I think the 2017 fire in the Gorge. Bought some trekking poles and that really helped out getting down inside this one water fall.
Multnomah falls was absolutely slam packed with people too and I saw why, holy shit I didn't know much about it and wasn't expecting it to be that tall.
We did this last week as well. Such a cool area. Skipped Multnomah because of all the people. Was planning to stay in hood river but got smoked out by the air quality and went back to Portland for the night.
Heading out to visit friends end of September. Any new restaurants that have opened in last 1-1.5 years I need to try to get to? I have some in mind, but any suggestions I’m open too.
DistantFactor might know. I live near Multnomah Village and there's a few good spots there but not too much else since I haven't lived here that long. Where exactly are you staying?
Also someone told me Marrakesh is pretty good. I'm taking my wife there Saturday for her birthday and will report back. It's a Moroccan restaurant with belly dancing.
I still go-own a house in Beaverton so I’m super familiar with Multnomah. Anything and everything. I pay pretty close to the culinary scene in city but just looking for anything new people have had that I need to try.
That's right, I only had to scroll up like 10 posts to remember lol. Guessing you'd probably know any place I would recommend.
love it and miss it, let me know what’s still good. would be a good area to take the misses on a night to get super drunk and come back to our still owned place and have her fall asleep as I drink with our old roommate (I’m a journalist in a past life, the lead up of getting something and hanging out with our co-owner when she passes it out…)
It's like the chillest coastal town in Oregon. A bunch of other towns on the Oregon Coast cater to the RVing/Sand buggy crowd. So those towns are full of shitty little tourist trap trinket stores and bland overpriced food (they also tend to be pretty damn conservative). Yachats is more of a liberal artisan coastal community and has some amazing food and nature in the area. Also right outside of town is the Cummings Creek Wilderness, which has the largest stand of uncut old growth sitka spruce in Oregon. Some trees have like a 12 foot diameter, it's like the fucking Land of the Lost in there.
Need to figure out how to convince my wife to sell everything and move here. IDK what she'd do for work tho.
literally in our plans, since my wife is a twin she still wants to spend time in Nebraska, but she misses Oregon so much that she wants to ‘snow bird’ it for part of the year. She works from home and has a good job. Now about me…I should probably learn to bartend or something and paint more often and hope people continue to buy them at a much faster rate (Aka, paint faster so I can make more lol) (I like my job but im not attracted to it at all like I am to traveling and places I enjoy)
I often get the itch to move somewhere remote and costal. I grew up on the east coast, but have no desire to live in any of those beach towns/cities. We're currently under contract for land in Nicaragua to kinda do what you're talking about. Hopefully her job loosens up some and we can spend 4-6 weeks during the summer down there and maybe a week or two in the winter during a holiday. Then end up living there for half the year in 15 years or so before we're forced back to the US b/c of age.
Yachats is awesome. We camped up there at Tillicum Beach about 3 weeks ago. Pics are from an older trip. Love that the sites are right above the beach there. Huge slugs too lol