Retiring in Eugene?

[tandfman]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

best news is, you can get somebody to help kill you if you need! :-)

seriously, if you were in Sacto last week, you would have heard their on-field comedian with an ongoing anti-Oregon rant that included, "you can't pump your own gas in Eugene, but you can get assisted suicide"

The other state where you can't pump your own gas is New Jersey.

[kuha]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

Great town; the university is a huge asset; great beer fests and farmers' markets; the surrounding landscape is gorgeous; etc. It does get a LOT OF RAIN, however.

Average Eugene rain=46.10
Average Danbury ct 51.77...so much, much better! :P

My guess is that if you looked that number of days in which there was some rain, you'd find Eugene's count is higher.

I agree. From what I've been told, the wet winters there are really, truly, long and oppressive. I still like the area, however--and liked the English climate as well.

[Halfmiler2]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

One other plus for Oregon: no sales tax.

[aaronk]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

Haven't been there since 2002 (lived there from '87 to '98, then Lincoln City, making many trips back for various track meets).
Do they still have the Piccadilly Flea Market at the fairgrounds?
If so, that would be a BIG reason I would move back. (Track being reason # 1.)

Pic was held every two weeks, except for the summer.
It wasn't held from mid-June through August.

It was held in 3 or 4 HUGE rooms, with 8 foot long tables set up in long rows, about 4 or 5 rows per room.
The number of tables ranged from 300 to 500.

Each table was rented for $15 (back then!!!), and sold everything under the sun, from guns to vacuum cleaners to food to plants to clothes to tools to antiques of one kind or another (old postcards, buttons, furniture, etc), plus MANY tables featuring books, DVD's (back then, it was VHS!!), or CD's, and sometimes all 3, comic books, sports cards (and Batman cards and all kinds of other collectors cards).....and well, the list could keep going for another several lines!!

A FANTASTIC place.
I went browsing (and buying!!) there many many times, and even rented a table there about 15-20 times!

ADD: There was a $1.50 admission fee, and the place was elbow to elbow!!
It was open from 10 a.m. to 4.p.m.
Sometimes had a two day sale, but normally held on Sundays.

[ed gee]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

One other plus for Oregon: no sales tax.

True, but Oregon is one of the least tax friendly states for retirees.
http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/reti ... -retirees/

[gh]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

that link belongs in our Maps thread!

[Halfmiler2]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

Thanks for the map!

One more plus for Oregon: excellent Pinot Noir.

[gh]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

I had a stunning bottle of '00 Eyrie for lunch the day I got to town.

[Mighty Favog]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

I'm fairly attached to home & family so I won't move across the country when I begin drawing a pension. If I move at all, it will be to either Ann Arbor or Toronto. Both have glorious summers and falls and the winters...well, both have major international airports. UM is building a top-notch indoor facility and once it's finished it sounds like they'll bid on NCAAs, etc.

[Dave]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

Really wet in the winter in Eugene. That is unless global warming has set in. I suggest Sun River, Oregon, much drier.

Even the coast seems to have better weather in the winter. But going off to Sunriver in the winter will help with your sanity.

[lonewolf]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

Maybe it it is just me but I would not want to retire to a strange place unless the place I was retiring from was really, really bad. I want to be as close as possible to as many family and friends as possibe.

[Pego]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

Maybe it it is just me but I would not want to retire to a strange place unless the place I was retiring from was really, really bad. I want to be as close as possible to as many family and friends as possibe.

Exactly.

[SQUACKEE]

Re: Retiring in Eugene?

Maybe it it is just me but I would not want to retire to a strange place unless the place I was retiring from was really, really bad. I want to be as close as possible to as many family and friends as possibe.

Exactly.

Of course you are both completely correct, I am just trying to think ahead in case the few family members I have here move away in the next 5 years, which people do, I want some kind of plan. Or maybe I just vont to be alone.

What would swing the Eugene plan is a free beer from gh at the Pre meet.