RE: 30 Something Birthday by: HER- Food Fight Friday
Awesome! We love country lands but also like city life. $800-1200 doesn’t sound bad at all but then again I’m from the land of ridiculous so wouldn’t know better.
I’d like to visit somewhere along the coast- I’m quite accustomed to putting on a hoody and jeans before heading to the beach. Southern California has made me also appreciate bathing suit beach weather, but the ocean has always been somewhat gloomy, cold, and powerful in my experience.
As of right now visiting the snowy side sounds like a lot of fun. I’m sure it’s much more burdensome to live with it than to play in it. I’m not sure if we will get a chance to see Oregon before we head out but it sure would make for a good time I think. California has just gotten so expensive and everything is taxes upon taxes; taxes are taxed. Haha
We probably average some kind of snowfall once a year here. Last year we didn't have any other times it's snowed a couple of times. More often than not it's an inch or so and lasts two or three days, max, which isn't bad. The other side of the Cascades gets much more.
You probably have to go fairly south into Mexico before you start finding warmer waters. Cancun side, so Caribbean actually, very warm. Hawaii wasn't too bad, either, with water temperatures.
Oregon, not even close, a lot like what I imagine the Bay area is like.
I'm afraid the entire West Coast has managed to come up with new and improved ways to tax the heck out of its residents. Still, what's amazing is, you can live in Washington and not pay income tax, and shop across the border in Oregon and not pay a sales tax. I'm looking for warmer weather, not cooler, or we'd be living in Washington by now.
Haha… have you guys ever been to Tennessee? It’s our favorite state in this country. The people there are so nice, you can’t meet a stranger, and it’s really green. I’ve never seen myself living in a landlocked state but Tennessee has so many pros and I guess a fair amount of lakes, that I would live there in a heart beat.
Although Cancun, with its Caribbean waters, tends to call my soul a little bit more.
Hey, @puravidaville.
If it weren't for a lot of corruption on all levels of government, where people have more of a tendency to look away than do something (probably because it's too easy to end up missing and/or dead), and then the drug cartels, which have pretty much taken over everywhere now down there (where they used to stay away from the tourist areas), along with other logistical issues, Cancun would be great.
Funny thing is, my wife has mentioned Tennessee a couple of times. We know a family who lives there, but they're more friends of friends. Plus, it's a little farther east than I'd like to go. But if you like it, I probably should look into it more. Except for Utah, I've not lived in a landlocked state myself, and while we might make it over to the coast two or three times a year, it's still nice to have the variety.
Along with mountains, lakes, rivers, streams, forests, valleys, etc. If they'd stop taxing the daylights out of things and allow people to use their property more and some other things, we might not leave Oregon, just go somewhere that's a little drier. My wife has sinusitis and allergies and could probably stand a little drier weather and more sunshine.