Water rights are indeed a big deal here. People stealing water are soundly hated. The mj growers here have been big on water theft. Long story.... thankfully the bottom dropped out of the mj market and a lot of given up or left.
I live in a valley surrounded by millions of acres of national forest/BLM land, mountains all around. I’d go crazy in a city.
I thought about moving to or around the southern Oregon coast for awhile, but things changed. My daughter used to live in Corvallis and we’d go all over taking in the scenery.