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I believe Oregon lacks sales tax, was out of stater, so don't think it was state taxes. Problem with that is, with the timber industry really limited, and the bad past few salmon seasons, small counties are hurting. Retiring Californians are moving up in force, especially the southern part of the state, putting a drain on smaller counties resources. Portland, being metro, it isn't that as big of a problem.
The few months of winter I was there I really didn't find the rain that bad, but the weekend I left, I was just ahead of, going south to CA, of what was a big blizzard in Portland, it basically shutdown the city for days. But it was one of those "storm of the century" of 50 or 100 years.
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