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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2984649" data-attributes="member: 30035">I love Portland. I moved to the Northwest from Texas 15 years ago to attend grad school, and I've never wanted to leave. Portland has a great feeling of being relatively small yet very cosmopolitan. The variety of dining experiences and entertainments available still amazes me. I really like the mass transit system here, which keeps expanding, and the freeways are easy to negotiate and not too bad with rush-hour traffic.The weather is generally pleasant as long as you don't mind the rainy fall and winter - it's not as rainy here as it is in Seattle. Seattle is also hillier, which I find a nuisance to drive when I go to visit. There is a state income tax in Oregon, which I don't care much for, but no sales tax. And if you drive across the border into Washington as an Oregon resident you don't have to pay sales tax there either, except for food. Portland also has the advantage of being centrally located to a variety of different types of terrain. You can be on a ski slope or a beach in about the same amount of driving time, and the drive to either location is beautiful. Oregon's beaches are all public property - you can get out of your car and walk onto the beach anywhere and no one will come out and yell at you to get off their land. There are quite a few Native American casinos near the coast if you enjoy that type of activity. I think the Columbia Gorge is gorgeous to drive through, and I've spent time on Puget Sound too, DragonTurtle.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   The gorge has some of the most breathtaking waterfalls I've ever seen.</blockquote>

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