Moving to Oregon need lots of input please!!!

[PhishyPharmer]

^^^around 82nd and things get weird quick.....
I'm 82nd and Flavel and it's the hood for sure. Lots of shootings and and the ever present background noise of sirens...reminds me of home! I just moved up here 2 months ago from a lesser med state from a town 40 miles from the border of mexico. PDX is very nice

 

[pearlemae]

Just what Oregon needs, another grower. I have been in Oregon for the past 15 years. In that time and more so just recently the market is flooded. I know several growers and they all bitch that they have lost most of their customers because everyone is growing. Yeah!! everyone grows in Oregon, Eugene has 7 or 8 grow shops, even the local hardware stores sells grow supplies. Cards are not real hard to get, so why buy when you can get a card and grow your own.
If you expect to come to Oregon and make a living growing and selling weed, don't bother cause your not gonna get rich, you'll need a real job to survive, jobs in Oregon are scarce. We have over 10% unemployment, thats as of this mornings paper. Its the greatest state ever, used to live on the Central Coast lived there for several years, no jobs,high rents, average age on the Oregon coast is 62 years old. Retired folks live on the coast, and the rest just scrabble for the few decent jobs. Unless you have a job here I'd think twice, although jobless in Oregon still beats the Midwest in my mind.Check craigslist eugene, Oregon, type OMMP in the search and you'll see the local scene.
Bend has the same problem as the coast, the folks that work in the town generally don't make enough money to be able to live in Bend, rents can be high its a resort type area.

 

[huligun]

I just transferred from Portland to Seattle in the past month. I have to agree with Pearlemae about the market flooded. I could easily get good weed for $120 per ounce all day long and get absolute fire for $200 (indoor). It was a great place for a Non-Grower to live. Lots of weed in Oregon and low prices on most everything else. Near Bend (Prineville) I know someone that bought a 2400 square foot house that needed minor (cosmetic repairs) for only $59k. He paid cash for it. You could grow a lot of indoor in that place.

Now that I am in Seattle I am paying too much for weed and everything else. I need to head down to Salem next week and stock up. I think I will get a qp of that indoor LamsbreadxSour Diesel for about $500. I may buy a pound of outdoor just to make some hash. That should hold me until after Christmas.

Almost time for some serious stoned skiing.

 

[DryNobBob]

And if you ain't buyin a house, landlords seem red as hell for it to be a state law, then when you see a house with the elec panel rewired and walls knocked out, you can see why. There is a lot of mediocre meds grown in state, by peeps think they can grow, read a book or two, etc. Try the final product and let me know what you think. Funny thing is, the scene in Ptown to Eugene is worlds away from the rest of the state.IMO. And I guess it makes sense to take it one step further and understand that since the state is so broke, exporting extra is the number one moneymaker. I would bring a partner or two with you, everything is higher in OR, from gas to groceries. You'll see why peeps are living in RV's and plank houses and taking baths in the rivers, lolol. Watch the ex-junkies and meth whores, lol and loggin gals, they are everywhere. HA! Knowit

Just what Oregon needs, another grower. I have been in Oregon for the past 15 years. In that time and more so just recently the market is flooded. I know several growers and they all bitch that they have lost most of their customers because everyone is growing. Yeah!! everyone grows in Oregon, Eugene has 7 or 8 grow shops, even the local hardware stores sells grow supplies. Cards are not real hard to get, so why buy when you can get a card and grow your own.
If you expect to come to Oregon and make a living growing and selling weed, don't bother cause your not gonna get rich, you'll need a real job to survive, jobs in Oregon are scarce. We have over 10% unemployment, thats as of this mornings paper. Its the greatest state ever, used to live on the Central Coast lived there for several years, no jobs,high rents, average age on the Oregon coast is 62 years old. Retired folks live on the coast, and the rest just scrabble for the few decent jobs. Unless you have a job here I'd think twice, although jobless in Oregon still beats the Midwest in my mind.Check craigslist eugene, Oregon, type OMMP in the search and you'll see the local scene.
Bend has the same problem as the coast, the folks that work in the town generally don't make enough money to be able to live in Bend, rents can be high its a resort type area.

 

[huligun]

Most of the ladies I met in Oregon fall into three catagories:

1. Hicks
2. Junkies
3. Junkie hicks

All of them were crazy and hard to shake loose from.

 

[Snow Crash]

Don't forget about the hipster party slags.

 

[DIDM]

And if you ain't buyin a house, landlords seem red as hell for it to be a state law, then when you see a house with the elec panel rewired and walls knocked out, you can see why. There is a lot of mediocre meds grown in state, by peeps think they can grow, read a book or two, etc. Try the final product and let me know what you think. Funny thing is, the scene in Ptown to Eugene is worlds away from the rest of the state.IMO. And I guess it makes sense to take it one step further and understand that since the state is so broke, exporting extra is the number one moneymaker. I would bring a partner or two with you, everything is higher in OR, from gas to groceries. You'll see why peeps are living in RV's and plank houses and taking baths in the rivers, lolol. Watch the ex-junkies and meth whores, lol and loggin gals, they are everywhere. HA! Knowit

um

the fuck?

you must not be in Portland or any of the valley, well the Willamette Valley at least.

Only real people of bother here are hipsters, who are harmless and are places I have never heard of.

place is poor though

I wouldn't put my kid through Portland public schools


FUCK NO


thank whoever I have no kids

 

[PuertoviejoKL]

I've been thinking about moving to OR from CO. Would like to get out in the woods again somewhere. Anyone have some advice where to begin my search. I didn't realize how spoiled I was technically being so close to both Boulder & Denver but had been living in a one gas station, one restaurant sort of town. Thanks

 

[pearlemae]

If you want to live in a town in the woods then there are several to choose from in the Cascades,most are pretty broke and few jobs, if there's any jobs at all. When the timber industry got whacked when the only mill in town shuts down it gets pretty grim. Its taken years for these town to recover. In the coast range there are some little village size towns store gas station post office maybe.Again jobs pretty much non existent. Oregon has been hit hard by the recession, its just now starting to get a little better. Ceck out Oakridge if your into mountain bikes and skiing thats what they went for after the mills closed. Sister if your looking for high desert type Ponderosa pines and wanna be cowboys thats the culture there.Few towns in the coast range, lots offarms and ranches most of the highways are built along a river, property is expensive, no jobs and an hour or so drive to any kind of bigger city. Oregon coast plenty of small towns the largest town is Coos Bay maybe 40K if that Newport on the central coast is 25K. Low wages not many jobs lots of service type stuff its a tourist haven the whole coast is a destination area. Spendy rents, food gas, etc and no one had a very good season this year gas prices were killing them.
I lived in a small town on the central coast for several years, you have to make your own job. unless you can flip burgers or tend bar, pump gas, construction was big till the housing bust.
So my advice is to google oregon look at the various areas, for the most part Oregon is not very crowded, once your away from I-5 corridor Oregon is very rural. If you come here bring enough money to live, it might take some time getting a job that worth keeping. The people are friendly, weed is plentiful and cheap. And Oregon has more craft brewers than any other state I think, so the beer is awesome to over work a term. Bring rain gear it rains in the winter, sometime it rains for days, when I lived on the Coast we would get 14 inches of rain in two days. It rains, the rains finally came this year and all its done since is rain. What you say I love the rain, Ha!! I say wait til you see no sun for two months cause all it does is rain, one storm after another, rain and more rain I lived on the coast the rain we had 14 inches in 12 hours. the never ending rain......
did I mention it rains you get moss growing on your car, the rain. . . ..

 

[eastbeast]

Near Bend (Prineville) I know someone that bought a 2400 square foot house that needed minor (cosmetic repairs) for only $59k. He paid cash for it. You could grow a lot of indoor .

Haha yea move to prineville lol!
That's the first time i've ever heard someone tell other people to move TO prineville...

Stay out of central oregon; it's a jobless hole filled with cowboys, yuppies, fake hippies, and religious extremists. And meth.

Portland is nice(go blazers!) but the weather can get to people, especially in the fall/winter/spring months ha... Great city though.

 

[ClackamasCootz]

Prineville? Why not Albany then?

 

[subrob]

Portland is absolutely my favorite city ive lived in..havent been in awhile but spent quite a bit of time...grown all around portland...beaverton aloha wilsonville and salem...never had any trouble unloading top shelf meds...like many..after. 5 years the rain got to me..but i love that town!
...just remember..west side for your herb..east side for your meth..and coffee and patchouli(?)everywhere!

 

[ClackamasCootz]

...and coffee and patchouli(?) everywhere!

Hawthorne District

 

[Obsidian]

only good thing about Prineville is the agate collecting out there.
IDK but I find Oregon very cheap to live, low rent for nice large homes
great food prices, gas is soso.
The moss is everywhere.
The rains will get to you within 2yrs.
always wet from Oct 15 to July 4th

the local puff sucks, most of every grower I've met here suck big time.
between my place in CO and OR, I choose OR, it's either 8months of snow or rain rather have rain, but hey wtf after 30+ yrs of snow the last 10yrs of rain is nice.

 

[vStagger Leev]

only good thing about Prineville is the agate collecting out there.
IDK but I find Oregon very cheap to live, low rent for nice large homes
great food prices, gas is soso.
The moss is everywhere.
The rains will get to you within 2yrs.
always wet from Oct 15 to July 4th

the local puff sucks, most of every grower I've met here suck big time.
between my place in CO and OR, I choose OR, it's either 8months of snow or rain rather have rain, but hey wtf after 30+ yrs of snow the last 10yrs of rain is nice.

True.. many shitty growers in OR, but any state has horrible growers, most of the folks I know west of the Cascades have a pretty green thumb Lot's of OG headstash here Much love! SL

 

[huligun]

The thing about Oregon is that no matter where you live you are not that far from something different. You can be down town and get to the woods in half an hour. If you are on the coast you can be in the hills or the desert in an hour or two. Oregon and Washington have the move climatic and terrain diversity, only Oregon is way cheaper. Anyone that thinks Oregon is expensive to live doesn't get out much is all I can say. I travel constantly and Oregon is one of the cheapest places to live in the country, and the cheapest on the west coast. A poor person can live in a really nice area in Oregon, whereas California no. I inherited my house in Lake Oswego, but I do know the prices. I went to see what I could sell my house for and decided not to at this time. I want to get a place on the coast some day and I will have to sell the house on the lake then. Right now it is setting empty.

And as far as Prineville is concerned that is a nice dry place with small town atmosphere. Not a place for a regular guy trying to make a living, but if that is not an issue it is a nice place. There is plenty of outdoor activities to do in the area.

 

[420mike]

I lived in Sweet Home (East of Albany) for the last 10 years. I loved it (EXCEPT THE RAIN). One of the best things was a group called Oregon Green Free. As with any group there is some infighting and some idiots running around, but for the most part it is a great group of people and a great resource for networking, clones and growing information. Check them out if you havent already.

 

[k-s-p]

What do you folks think about the Klamath Falls area?

 

[420mike]

Klamath Falls is a depressed area. If you get a job there, better hope you can keep if because the jobs are few and far between. I dont think it rains as much as further north and I have seen great outdoor weed from the area.

 

[k-s-p]

Thanks Mike.