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If you're not a native of the PNW, what made you want to move here? (self.pnw)
submitted 1 year ago by Crackhappy to c/pnw
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For me, since I've been 100% remote for 8 years now, I can live pretty much anywhere I want, as long as there's decent Internet. As my kids all grew up and moved out to live their own lives, I asked myself where I really wanted to live. One was Ecuador, specifically because of the tropical climate combined with high altitude rain forests. The other was the PNW. My partner and I came up to Eugene, OR and did a massive three day tour of Oregon and southern Washington looking for a place to live and finally settled on Eugene, at least to start. Now we live in northern Salem, OR and we absolutely love it here. The climate (bring on the rain!), the overall feeling of the people, the forests and beaches, just all of it really. To be fair, there are definitely still a number of hateful angry people who live in rural areas, which can be problematic, but overall it's lovely.

What made you move?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, North Salem! South Salem here. :)

For me, we moved here from Montana a bit over a decade ago. Interviewed for a job in January, and they asked me if I was still interested, having now experienced the typical dreary 50 degree weather. I explained to them that the HIGH when I left Montana was -20. Like, the day had to work hard to get UP to twenty below.

You don't realize how many shades of green there are till you spend some time in the PNW. :)

[โ€“] Crackhappy 1 points 1 year ago

My sister lives in Bozeman and it always amazes me when she tells me the temp there.