Come to Florence. Move to FLorence, on the breathtakingly beautiful Oregon coast. It is in Lane County (Eugene). It is full of retired people and many are conservative. But because of the crazy mapping of the county lines along highway 126.....Florence is intertwined interminably with Lane County politics.
Portland has two million people. The whole state has only 4 million people. When Portland is dictating what the rest of the state can do....it is awful for people who live out in the “real world”.
And yes, there are a number of Californians who have transplanted as things went bad south of the border.
I don’t know how long we will live here, but there are many good conservative people in Oregon! Just not enough to balance out Portland, and the influx of those who are attracted.
We are considering where we will live the rest of our lives. It probably won’t be Oregon, but please don’t dismiss us. We are fighting the good fight.
And adding: Okay, maybe you don’t want to move here. But there is no sales tax, so if you come visit and buy things....you won’t be contributing. Veterans can camp free for a number of days monthly in the state parks.
Lane Cty is very rat dominated:
Obozo got 95,143 votes or 59.63%
Romney got 58,629 votes or 36.75%
I have a friend, who moved up from Orange county after he retired to be near his daughter and lives a little west of Eugene. He could have been a concert pianist and his wife is a good artist. So at first they were welcomed into the elite college oriented artsy/fartsy crowd.
When the elite rat artsy/fartsy scum find out that he worked for an evil corporation until retirement, and he is a card carrying Republican, they get shunned like a bad Amish.
His wife, daughter and SIL have banned him from even mentioning that he is a republican.
His truck and car were keyed and egged in the 2008 election because he had McCain stickers on them.
We talk on the phone about twice a month, and he jokes that he needs to pay me as his shrink.