Moving to Oregon - Help

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Do you think if Russia were to nuclear strike the US, their first target would be portland?

>>1180684
You could go ask /pol/ and stop derailing my thread

Currently living in a small town in the coastal mountains west of portland. Bend has a great outdoor scene and the people there seem to be pretty friendly, can't speak on the nightlife ect. But I'd imagine it's pretty good. Tons of yuppies, trust fund kids and the like. I would look at the whole area west of klamath falls, around roseburg maybe. That would give you access to the huge public lands to the west but still be able to go to a major city. There's tons of middle of nowhere towns in the mountains that would be cool to check out, all within a half hour or 45 minutes of the metro.

Oops, didn't see the light pollution requirements. Eastern oregon is always going to be way better than western in that regard but I'm not sure about the klamath falls area. Places outside of pendleton and similar areas are probably fantastic for that kind of thing, if you go a little south theres pretty much just desert. Although bend would let you get to some pretty remote areas it might cause light pollution from being a midsized town, not sure how little you actually need but I've been up on mount hood and seen very little to the east but much more down south.

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>>1180691
>>1180693

Of all of Earth's environments, the desert has to be my least favorite
And yet again and again through my life I'm called back to it

Zero light pollution is always best and in this, case close to being necessary
The objects I'm tracking are not exactly what you would close in celestial terms

I will be continually studying DSO's around Messier 81 and Pinwheel
As well as a number of moons within our solar system, Lo, Casstilo, Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra and Pan

As an example, Nix is about 32km across and at it's furthest roughly 7 billion km away

Klamath Falls sounds better,
Thanks for the tips Anon

Klamath Falls sucks
Bend is nice
Eugene is ok
I live in Corvallis, it's pretty good

>>1181054
Carvallis is decent, I would honestly say roseburg is a safe bet for you. Op have you considered living in a boat and just driving out into the ocean to reduce light pollution? Your rent would only be the cost of docking your boat, Ive actually heard of quite a few people doing this (not for astronomy, but yaknow) actually disregard this entire post, I forgot looking through a telescope on a rocking boat would be painfuly hard. Possibly consider a calm inland lake? Idk man