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I like visiting Bend but, not sure I could live there year round. It's expensive, liberal and often smoky with fires every year. Sisters, Oregon is close and a nice place to visit. The views from Bend are nice. The high desert I enjoy. My wife enjoys shopping at the Old Mill District!
@syrahsmythe Well, maybe those moving in are tired of the left coast liberalism and the political landscape will change. Hell, Biden just dumped his campaign so, things are looking up!
I lived there off of O.B. Riley Rd. in 1978 In a nice Cabin. We got our water from a finger of the Deschutes River. There was a beautiful park with a amazing wooden bridge over the river, 400 yards away. Perfect climate ! All the seasons were great, and scenery was just amazing. By the way, in 1978 there was 40,000 population, not 10,000.
@@movingtobendoregon A bit of a dodgy response. Bend has been a popular place to move for many decades, very true, but it's the recent surge in the last 10 years or so that the "cali complaint" has been legit. Bend has always been a resort town, people with second homes or that retire here, so always a bit expensive. Now it's insane, many entry level jobs are still paying $20 per hour and it's not enough to live in Bend, if you can even get a place in Bend. They have to live out in Prineville or La Pine and drive into Bend for work everyday. Those places are nothing like Bend, not even close, they look and feel like any other broken down old town in the middle of nowhere. The gentrification of Bend in recent years has been extremely hard on many of the working people that once called Bend home.
It's so expensive and crowded. Low paying too and 10.8% tax rate. Housing market is insane, property taxes on the rise and people are biding over asking prices just to get a house! One couple I know over bid by 50K just to get their house. There are no rentals and prices for apartments are out of control as well. Summers are even more crowded with tourists in our very short warm 3 months of Summer, making it hard to enjoy anything and lets not get into the traffic portion of this nightmare. We have 6 seasons. Fall, Winter, Fake Spring, Real Spring, Summer and fire season. We really enjoy the heck out of smokey Summers and that air quality. Sure, come join us!
6 seasons 😆 that’s a good one. Yes there are frustrating things associated with Bend no doubt about it. I’m willing to speculate the couple that bought $50k over ask did so in 2020 or 2021? That happened in many places.. Correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks for your comment 😊
The winters up in LA Pine are fun. You get to ride on my Back hoe and skid steer plowing the snow all night and day long. The 0 degree temps are a little cool with the wind blowing. The ride back down the hill to Bend is fun with pick up trucks sliding 360 and upside down. Yeah come to Bend. The fires all summer long are so enjoyable breathing all the smoke in.
You won't be able to find housing due to all the out of state rich folks that have purchased properties with reckless abandon and then turn it into an Air B+B. Bend was a great place in the 90's through the early 2000's but due to no planning by the city has become overrun with out of state homeowners who visit once a year. This is an unfortunate reality of any desirable place to live as the middle class disappears and we have become a land of the rich and the poor. Amen
