In my world there is no place better than the Willamette valley inn Oregon. I can drive 90 minutes in any direction and be at the coast, the high desert, the Cascade mountains, the milder more dense rainforest of the coastal mountains, I get over the counter tags for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, or halibut plus over the counter tags for elk, black tail deer. Also some of the best duck and goose hunting in the country. The winters are mild. The summers are tolerable and the spring and fall or the best times of year.

In my world there is no place better than the Willamette valley inn Oregon. I can drive 90 minutes in any direction and be at the coast, the high desert, the Cascade mountains, the milder more dense rainforest of the coastal mountains, I get over the counter tags for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, or halibut plus over the counter tags for elk, black tail deer. Also some of the best duck and goose hunting in the country. The winters are mild. The summers are tolerable and the spring and fall or the best times of year.

Well my personal favorite because I live there for 40 years until I got married and moved to North Carolina. I found it living in North Carolina is more of a grind, there's too many haves and have not's that live here in this drug pandemic eaten up part of the country is the worst I have ever seen, I mean it, it's worse than in the 69's, 70s and '80s generation and that reaches all the financial and age groups. The thing I love most about living in Texas was the wide openness, it was easy and relatively cheap to find property with structures on it and put a little elbow grease into it and some materials and build you a home, if you've got good skills like I did I made a real good earning in my furniture restoration business but down here in North Carolina they want to tax you to death and regulate everything to the point that you can't afford to live a decent life. No I'm just able after this second surgery and if I had the financial means to I pack up everything I go I'd moved back to Texas. I know where all the good fishing holes are, I know where the buildings are I can open up walk right back in there run a few ads and make $100,000 a year or more take home money. Oklahoma is another place that I know well and you can go into those small towns don't matter to me if they're ghost towns or not as long as you know where the bigger cities are and have access to get to it you can live just fine. You can find houses all over the place for just a few thousand bucks for people have just died off and the kids have no interest in coming back or maintaining it. There's some parts in Texas Oklahoma and other areas people are just friendlier and that makes a big difference in neighbors helping neighbors if you needed a hand doing anything after a storm or lost a loved one people were all over you trying to help. It's the people that makes a place worth living not the objects are the night life crap I couldn't careless about.