BTW, how are the jobs out there. Looks like a really nice place to live.
Most of rural Oregon and Washington is very depressed from the shut down of mining and logging, pressure on agriculture (ripping out irrigation to support Salmon) and such. It’s slowly buiding itself back up, but there are many counties that are shrinking.
I try to vacation in the rural outback every chance I can, at least I can buy my breakfast and stay at little motels.
A lot of people have figured out how to have nice lives, it’s slowly picking back up.