It's not uncomfortably yuppified. It's got just the right amount of yuppie with enough country left to satisfy. Hang out with locals and bag on all the californians.
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It's not uncomfortably yuppified. It's got just the right amount of yuppie with enough country left to satisfy. Hang out with locals and bag on all the californians.
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Even if you retire as an O-6 with about 30 years, you still work. So that when you retire, retire you maintain the same standard of living as when you were on AD. Ergo my father who retired as an O-6 with 29 years on AD, and only just recently retired from Lockheed Martin.
Since this seems to be an Oregon love-fest thread (I grew up in Ashland), I've definitely considered retiring back in OR, but definitely not Ashland. Oregon just has this certain vibe that makes me smile when I'm there. It's the hippy/ski bum/river guide part of the culture combined with the lumberjack/farming/winemaking element that I think blends well together. I'm just at ease there and the people have a certain laid back joviality to them.
One of my retirement scenarios (after the O6 >30 plus another 10 years as a contractor scenario) is to buy a vineyard/winery somewhere in Oregon and live out my years tending to my vines and shaking my fist at passing children. By then, I may actually look something like my avatar.
BTW, MIDNJAC & cumminspilot - where in OR are you from?
Brett
I agree....my pops retired as an O-5 (yes, not quite the pay of O-6) in '79 and then worked privately until about 3 years ago. Even in retirement, the man won't quit (volunteer and paid consultant at various organizations to this day)........and him and my mom have been very comfortable. Same thing I intend to do.
@ Brett, I'm from Eugene originally, went to school in Corvallis and spent 25 years there before I joined the big blue water yacht club. I agree completely with your overview....it's probably the most laid back place I have ever been, and has the greatest mix of every climate I can imagine (save steambath gulf coast which I am getting plenty of now). Mainly I miss crisp fall weather and snowboarding on real mountains, plus great breweries and the best summers you will experience anywhere.
Well if you're interested in a cultural mecca such as Pensacola, FL I'd like to direct you to the following thread.
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145742
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145742
Small town of Merrill, SE of Klamath Falls...the dry side of the state. :icon_tong
Iowa would be out for me with no rifles for deer. We have a farm in SE KY and while the country is great there are simply no services like decent medical.
While TN may charge tax on groceries, property taxes are low and no income tax so it's pretty much a wash. I find the area around Oak Ridge very nice.
For me great retirement places include north-central NH, NW Nevada, SE WA or NE Or (although the hippie vote in both states drive me nuts). Of course there are places in MT and WY that are great and NE NM or SW CO has some nice country.
Oregon is amusing because it is always jacked-up pickup trucks w/ gun racks, or crappy subaru/prius w/ 20 eco-friendly bumper stickers on it. One or the other.
I'm from Portland, not sure where in Oregon I would retire though, as I'm sure when I am old and decrepit, climbing mountains, snowboarding, and hunting the Cascades won't be as fun.
Scuba diving in the PNW is miserably cold and the visibility sucks. (Just a thought)
I'm from Portland, not sure where in Oregon I would retire though, as I'm sure when I am old and decrepit, climbing mountains, snowboarding, and hunting the Cascades won't be as fun.
Scuba diving in the PNW is miserably cold and the visibility sucks. (Just a thought)
Hey, Southern Oregon IS the dry side of the state, but FWIW, K-Falls is quite possibly the asshole of Oregon.
Brett
My in-laws are doing this sort of thing. They leased out their house on dry land, bought a boat and have become full-time cruisers. Going on 4 years since they've lived on land and they have no intentions of ending anytime soon. Although, the lifestyle comes with constant maintenance work and continual expensive to keep the house afloat. And their insurance prohibits them from being anywhere near the Caribbean during hurricane season; apparently it's a ton more expensive to be inside the hurricane box in the summer.
If you're gonna' go 'rustic' ... I'd opt for Eastern WA and a vineyard or the Idaho panhandle over Oregon ... too much schizophrenia present in the Beaver State, what w/ homosexual, X-dressing mayors, Birkenstock wearing, burned-out 60's hippies, and other assorted stoned floatsam & human jetsam on one side of the street ---- and machine-gun toting (legally) crazy skinheads on the other side of the street ...
Plus ... if you knew the 'modifications' we made, many, many years ago to the OSU fight song ... you wouldn't want to live there, either.
Some of my airline Amigos moved to the burgeoning 'pilot ghetto' of Bend, Oregon ... kind of a 'dry' version of Gig Harbor, WA (another pilot ghetto) .... and many of them are now trying to sell their overpriced successful yuppie-style houses and moving out, but I'm not privy to all of the details.
The only questions I asked myself were: do I want water (salt or fresh) ... palm trees .... blue skies ... white sand .... or mountains ... or the high desert ??? I never even considered 'cities' ... you'd have to be crazy to go there unless it's absolutely necessary ...
Wherever you go -- just bring along enough $$$$ to be comfortable. You don't have to be 'rich' ... but comfortable is nice ...
Plus ... if you knew the 'modifications' we made, many, many years ago to the OSU fight song ... you wouldn't want to live there, either.
Some of my airline Amigos moved to the burgeoning 'pilot ghetto' of Bend, Oregon ... kind of a 'dry' version of Gig Harbor, WA (another pilot ghetto) .... and many of them are now trying to sell their overpriced successful yuppie-style houses and moving out, but I'm not privy to all of the details.
The only questions I asked myself were: do I want water (salt or fresh) ... palm trees .... blue skies ... white sand .... or mountains ... or the high desert ??? I never even considered 'cities' ... you'd have to be crazy to go there unless it's absolutely necessary ...
Wherever you go -- just bring along enough $$$$ to be comfortable. You don't have to be 'rich' ... but comfortable is nice ...
Noooooooooooooooo .... nooooooooooooo .... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!Pill_Hacker said:
That's what I used to think when I was young and foolish ... I mean HEY!!! If the winters are soooooooooooooo shitty up there, the summers MUST be GREAT, yea-as ???
And then I went there .... lived & tried to breathe there. It was a relief each & every time I manned up to fly away & flee the insanity.
The summers are S-H-I-T in Minnesota ... hot & humid w/ beaucoup CB's and even tornadoes (saw one at the airport) .... and land of 10,000 Lakes, my ass ... it's 10,000 SWAMPS and they're ALL breeding the biggest, meanest mosquitoes I've even had the misfortune to run into ... Duluth (if that's what you mean by northern) was 'marginal', although Trophy Wife (then Trophy GF) DID surprise me by shedding her constricting garmets and plunging into Lake Superior for a quick skinny-dip while my back was turned .... a VERY 'superior lake', indeed ...
There's a reason why we called MINNESOTA 'North Korea' ... and many of the people 'iceheads' .... there's a reason why dumb Swedes & Norwegians settled there ... and I don't think it was for the '10,000 Lakes' ...
Hey, Southern Oregon IS the dry side of the state, but FWIW, K-Falls is quite possibly the asshole of Oregon.
Brett
Low blow...wait, I agree.
Glad I didn't grow up in KFalls. :icon_smil