Bachelor or Hood?

MasterOz

MasterOz

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so, Im moving to oregon this summer from NH. my wife and I are looking to live near hood or bachelor. Can someone please give me a list of pros and cons of each... thanks for any help chea
 
well for starters, they are 2 totally different environments. living near hood could mean living anywhere from warm springs to portland. P town gets a lot of rain but it definitely is a fun city. Warm springs fucking sucks. living in bend is pretty chill, but it is nowhere near the city portland is. at least we don't get the rain...

hood= wet snow, multiple resorts on a larger mountain, summer riding. 1 minute- 1.5 hours depending on location.

bachelor= dry snow, one big resort, great parks, but powdrcorp owned and operated. 25 minutes from town
 
got that right, i had to stop at the rainbow market one time and there

was an old indian lady trying to get in my car as i was driving away. i

would take bachy and bend. bend has a different breed of people than

ptld for sure, if you like being more outdoorsy move to bend. move to

ptld if you love sharin the road with lance armstrong wannabees and love obama. i have lived in both and i like bend much more. i dont have to much info on the other towns by hood like welches/rhody/sandy because i have never lived in them, only dirven through
 
defly bend I'v lived her for twelve years and its totally sick get a house in a central part of the city...

don't move too far south or east or north those tend to turn into white trash areas mostly just northeast and south south, try and find a house near downtown or a nice neighborhood off third street. All depends on your price range.
 
Trust me the fact that Powdrcorp owns it is a GOOD thing. I used to not like Powdr either until I watched them sell my old home mountain and now NO ONE likes it. Powdr actually does some decent things. It could be 100 times worse without them. Well the bummer part about bachelor and hood is that they are mostly SUPER flat. So if your looking for steeps and cliffs I wouldnt move to Oregon. Ski Bowl actually has some decent terrain in the upper bowls but outside of that both mountains are relatively flat.If your looking to live in a big city I would say move to portland. Its a little further from portland to hood then bend is to bachelor though. Bend is definitely a nice sized town too (80,000 i believe). If your an outdoors type person then definitely move to Bend, you will always have something to do. I would also recommend looking for a job ASAP! Oregon's unemployment rate is awful. Bend is near the top of the list and had the second highest gain in unemployment last year (its not 18%). So definitely be careful of that.
Hope that helps.
 
I would move to Portland and shred on Hood. Portland is the most forward thinking town in the States straight up. Good food, you only need a car to go to the mountain, and the people are chill.
 
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true, you get lots of this in ptld

 
ya, i dont think id really like living in the city. im probably gonna try and find a place in between portland and hood. like rhododendron or zig zag or something. I dunno, we'll see. I think we'll prolly end up just driving out there and winging it anyway.

as for oregon being super flat, it can't be worse than new hampshire...
 
are you impying that having sexual relations with a minor when you are a 40+ yr old man running for office is an idiotic thing to do? or is it the fact that he mistook the brake for the gas pedal as he was illegally passing on the right? im not the biggest fan of sam adams if you cant tell
 
If you want cheap housing, but want to be close to Portland and Hood, move to the Gresham/Sandy area.

Plenty of jobs around there, housing is available, and your not stuck in Portland all the time.
 
I used to live in Welches, and it gets a ton of rain. It's pretty sweet but it rains a buttload. I live in Bend and it's pretty chill. Bachey is fun but it all depends on what you like i guess
 
yeah sorry. Powdr Corp runs Bachelor decently. They make it so its not completely geared towards one style or the other. Its not completely for your upper class groomer skiers, and not completely for your average park rat. They are good with their marketing and the way they like it. Sure its not open as long any more and they are focused on making money (for instance towards the end of spring they were selling less than 20 lift tickets a day). Also its not the way the locals would of liked it to be. Im sure it was probably a more enjoyable place before they owned it, but probably not doing as well. Unfortunately money is probably the reason that couldnt last forever. I dont know the story of Bachelor that well, but once Powdr Corp sold Alpine Meadows, that resort went to shit. The managers have no idea what they are doing and almost all the locals in Tahoe now despise the place. Tickets nearly doubled in price and they drove the park manager (who ironically builds pretty much the best jumps in the country) out of the resort and limited the park and size of everything. They shortened the season, jacked up the prices, and have publicly expressed that they just want upper class tourists searching groomers. That is their main target market now. Remember this is the same place that used to have a 90 foot booter that the likes of Level 1, Mack Dawg, Standard Films, ect would film on when its PUBLIC. Its also the same place that had 39 dollar lift tickets, 99 dollar spring passes, 199 dollar season passes, with some of the best terrain and snow around. Basically what I mean is, sure Powdr might not be the best at Bachelor, but I dont believe they are failing and it could be a million times worse.
Sorry if that was long.

 
im from bend and i ride bachy. bend is way chill and even tho the city makes up its own holidays ( winterfest, bite of ben, etx.) its still a nice place to live. and theres planty to do on the off season too. we've got so many lakes and places to camp and hike and stuff its hella chill. and bachelor is and awesome mountain to ride....great parks and back country. way chill of a place to live in
 
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