Yeah. I was actually talking to the dude selling Ice cream and Popsicles at the beach the other day. .all cash.... kick back lifestyle. hoop fam
Yeah, and come to think of it......... it's Scandinavian Shave Ice in Kona that is so awesome. I was way off.
Dated a girl who lived there for a couple years... beautiful area.. but not my kind of "people" Being there I felt so outta place. The closest I could liken it to was when I sat in the Lower Bowl at a Blazers game once (Damn you Turkoglu for hitting that 3 at the buzzer!!!)
Bend and sunriver (along with Maui and palm Springs) is where all the rich crackaz from high school vacayed. hoop fam
Never understood the whole Palm Springs thing. Don't get me wrong. I've been and I enjoyed it. But it's so fucking hot as hell. Like from 9 am to midnight in the summer. So hot it's not fun to be outside. It's in the middle of the desert. So, the things I did love about it...... aren't enough to put it at the top of my list to visit every year.
My grandparents have a house there, but only live there during the "cold months". It's pretty fucking awesome.
I get it during the winter time. Believe me. That and Arizona. It's the other 7-9 months of the year I don't understand.
Kind of a sidebar, but something I've noticed is that there are "coast" people and "mountain" people. I prefer Bend, because I ski a lot and enjoy the sun being out once in a while. I also like the coast, but after a day or two there, I get bored. Yet I know people who are the exact opposite. It's one of the best parts of living in Oregon. The difference of 200 miles are worlds' apart. I can't remember exactly what year it was, but Meadows was open on Memorial Day weekend in the early '00s. We skied on a Saturday, went to the coast on Sunday, and wakeboarded the Willamette on Monday. There are very few places in the US where doing all three of those things are day trips.
This. I like the mountain. I like Oregon in general. It's why I've never really entertained leaving the area very seriously. Give me something to drink, and I'll sit outside and chill all day long, if there aren't any activities I'm feeling up to. There's some cool stuff at the mountain, and I don't make it out that way very often, so I always can find stuff to do. That being said, I grew up going to the coast so frequently, so it's engrained in me. The ocean breeze, the smell of the ocean, that feeling of being at the end of the continent. It's a peaceful feeling. I get similar feelings at the mountain, especially after fresh powder has arrived, but I otherwise hate the cold.
I like Boulder and it reminded me a lot of Bend, where I was born and grew up. However, I didn't realize until I was there, that the ski resorts are actually a decent distance away from Boulder. It isn't a 30 minute drive like Bend to Bachelor.
Bend has two types of people. The Californians that moved there with all their money and the old-time Bendites that have been there for 30+ years. The Californians are probably the ones you didn't like. The old-timers are good, down-to-earth people.
Winter Park is close to an hour, and it sucks (comparatively). We have a place in Vail, which is 90 min to two hours. What I meant in comparing Central Oregon to Colorado is high desert with mountains and valleys of pines.
not this group that I was around for the 2 years... but yeah small sample size and always outliers. You are probably right though
There's a fairly decent-sized population of former Portland Metro Area residents that have moved to Bend. I know like 15-20 people from high school that live out there, and my HS class wasn't very big.
