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Lots of government jobs in Salem which is 45min south of PDX (if you're looking to stay in gov't). Car culture is pretty fail in the NW. Lots of the cars from the "doing it wrong" thread are from the NW and it's a pretty accurate representation. The NW car community generally is broke as hell.
Salem is cheap to live and close to everything (1hr from: PDX, mountains, coast) but it's a mostly quiet town with only 150k residents.
Job market in Ore. isn't great. Weather isn't as bad as everyone says though I think Seattle gets more grey/rain than Oregon, I'd have to look it up to confirm.
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