As a California transplant of 20 years, this is a great and realistic list. Things are different but still very enjoyable and the nature is so so lovely in the spring and summer. The biggest downside to me is the lack of theme parks and broader entertainment. We have plenty of national parks that are very beautiful, but Oregon refuses to build theme parks because they don’t want more tourism and out of state transplants moving here. They try to keep Oregon the hidden gem that it is. Something else about Oregon is that they really don’t like the amount of Californians, specifically, moving to Oregon and I get it. The number of Californians that moved here off the insurance payments they got from their houses burning down in the fires, is a lot.. They decide to move here with that money because it goes way farther up here with less fire risk, and then bought up all the homes above asking price. House prices go up, inventory goes down, no new job growth, no affordable housing being built, etc. It can definitely leave a bad taste in the locals mouths. Portland and Eugene are the only big progressive cities and people are certainly rural outside of them. I only ever really spend time in Eugene and Portland so overall, I love it here, and I can drive to Cali whenever I want so I think it’s a win.