I will move there within 2 years with the family. Glad you like it, because it's the best town in Oregon and I'm glad we bought there 4 years ago.
Been going there every year since I was in diapers. My grandparents had a place right on the Deschutes back before it was all Californicated.
Just buy a vacation house. I'll retire in a small tropical island selling fishing tackle to tourists. Or Popsicles.
The Bend area is beautiful, but I'm like HCP. I'd like to retire on the coast (assuming I can ever afford to retire). in fact, my hopes is to someday own a house on the coast, while i'm renting in the metro area. I know some will think that's backwards, but I'd rather own property/small modest house on the coast (with an actual view preferably) and rent in the metro area, so that way I can be free and clear of one and move to the other. But that's an unlikely goal. I'll probably die on the job.
Oregon beaches are kind of depressing to me. The weathers never really nice and I get bored there easily.
That's what the wife and I planned. Own at the coast, rent in town. Then we recently found a sweet deal and ended up closing on a place in Yachats. So, now we own in town and at the coast.
? I go 2-3 weeks per month, year-round. Storm-watching in the fall/winter is rad. Summertime, highs may typically only be 65-70, but it feels much warmer, IMO. I've stayed at the coast 11-12 weekends since the beginning of April (inlcuding a full week at the beginning of July). Only one day did it rain (and that was at the start of April). But to each his own, I suppose. I love snow, but I'm not a big skiier or snowboarder, so spending every weekend in the snow for half the year sounds terrible to me.
Wasn't a huge fan of it, the few times I have been there for weekends. I like the coast more, personally, but for me, I'm retiring in the city. No desire to really ever live outside of one.
I'm reading a book called "Full Rip 9.0" about the crazy strong earthquake that's due to hit the Northwest (the coast particularly hard.) While I fully get that there's no telling when it'll hit, it's killing my love for the beach. Go high desert! Go Bend! I also like Sisters, if you can handle a smaller town.
I hear you. We recently watched the movie based on the true story of the family of five that survived the Sri Lankan tsunami. The next several times we stayed at the family beach house, I barely slept (that has is in an area expected to be completely blown out by a tsunami). When we were looking to buy, I refused to even check out houses that we well into the tsunami zone. Ours is on the edge, with a very quick and easy evacuation route.
This is from a review in the Oregonian: (http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2013/06/full_rip_90_review_the_next_bi.html) "If Atwater's story deserves to be more widely known, so, too, does the work of Oregon State University professor Chris Goldfinger, whose sampling of ocean sediments has confirmed 19 full-rip Cascadia megaquakes during the last 10,000 years, and revealed another 23 temblors affecting only Oregon and Northern California. Goldfinger's findings suggest that the average interval separating major Cascadia quakes is 250 years. With the current quiet interval at 313 years and counting, Seattle is scarcely the only Northwest ZIP code whose residents have reason to be sleepless. The outlook for the coast, where vulnerability to ground-shaking and inundation is described as a "mirror image" of Japan's, is grim. Doughton's account of the tsunami vulnerability shared by Cannon Beach, Seaside and Washington's Long Beach Peninsula supplies ample reason for every weekend visitor to seek evacuation routes and be prepared to move -- quickly and on foot -- to the nearest high ground in the event the ground shakes."
...might have greater margins slangin' Hawaiian Shaved Ice (assuming you can access free water on this island of yours)!
I used to say the same thing when I was your age son. Get married, have a couple kids and wait 10 years........ You won't mind the peace and quiet down there! Sent from HCPs Baller-Ass iPhone 5...FAMS!
