I lived in Oregon for some years in Bandon after retirement, in the middle of a forest, but still could hear the ocean pound on the beach at high tide. It was lovely, inexpensive, but it could rain like nobody’s business. Lots of blackberries everywhere all summer, lots of fishing and crab fishing off the dock, and if you were Indian, all the salmon you could catch, no sales tax, and we got free TV on our 10’ dish which picked up programming from Canada...loved those British shows. Our medical plan in California made it mandatory we return, still miss the place..
Yeah, I have good memories of Oregon too.
I lived in Tigard, just a few miles from the city of Portland.
Every year they had a Rose Parade and Naval ships would come in on the river and we could go aboard and tour them.
I miss the Blackberries that seem to grow everywhere, but I do not miss the rain and never ending cloudy weather!