Oregon is my home state, I was born there and lived there before coming to New Mexico to go to school and as it turned out to make my home here. Oregon is a beautiful green state but to be that way it is under clouds more months than it is out of the clouds. Seattle became the home of Microsoft - though co-founder Paul Allen own the Trail Blazers and has an interest in Portland - and with the collapse of the logging industry cities like Portland struggle for national recognition. If I had to chose I would live in Portland over Seattle. It is smaller, less congested but it has the downside - what to do for a living. Tektronics and Nike have headquarters there but what else is there? Now the state's legislature, which has been democrat for way too long is about to finish killing the state's chances for growth. Here is an article from the WSJ: The Oregon Travail.
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