What is a nice, cozy small foresty town in Eastern Oregon?

[Lucille McDonald]

I've lived in Portland for ten years now, and it's been nice but I'm not much for the city. I'd like to move to Eastern Oregon, I hear its towns are a bit more isolated and rustic than over here in Portland. I'm looking for a pretty basic small town, not necessarily a college town though. Just a little place that's semi isolated with good scenery. I'll be a licensed massage therapist soon, so it can't be a town that's TOO isolated (i.e. so small it doesn't even have any massage clinics, haha)
Any suggestions?
Also, if you live in a town like this, about how much does housing run? It's awfully expensive in Portland which is another reason I'd like to move.

Thanks!

 

[slowp]

Burns, John Day, etc. Like, can't you look up housing and stuff on the internet? Realtor.com?

 

[madhatte]

Bend sounds like a winner.

 

[slowp]

I guess I've lived in really small places too much, I don't consider Bend to be small. I also would imagine it is overstocked with massage therapists. K-Falls? Still seems big to me. John Day, Prairie City, Burns--those are my definitions of small.

 

[Gologit]

LaPine, Chemult, Chiloquin.

 

[paccity]

green horn , thats small enough.

 

[paccity]

beaver marsh.

 

[Gologit]

I guess I've lived in really small places too much, I don't consider Bend to be small. I also would imagine it is overstocked with massage therapists. K-Falls? Still seems big to me. John Day, Prairie City, Burns--those are my definitions of small.

Bend wants to be Eugene when it grows up.

 

[paccity]

bend is a zoo anymore.

 

[lfnh]

Hello Lucille.
'Forestry' towns in EOregon. You got a bum steer somewhere along the line (fence). Nothing east of ochocco's.
Probly have better luck over by salem. Lot's a over worked jawbones there and golddiggers too.

btw, how did you end up in portland ?

 

[slowp]

Seneca? Oh, don't forget Lakeview, Unity and Dale.

 

[hangfirew8]

Burns, John Day, etc. Like, can't you look up housing and stuff on the internet? Realtor.com?

There's a difference between sites that want you to spend money versus asking people who live(d) there.

-HF

 

[RiverLogger]

John Day would be my vote. Fossil, Condon too.

 

[Hddnis]

Enterprise, OR
They have at least one massage therapist per the yellow pages.



Mr. HE

 

[2dogs]

Portland

 

[Sagetown]

Setting up a massage clinic including manicuring, adjoining, or as part of a beautician shop in a small community should work out great if you have the patients to wait for a customer base.

 

[slowp]

Setting up a massage clinic including manicuring, adjoining, or as part of a beautician shop in a small community should work out great if you have the patients to wait for a customer base.

If anybody has any money in that community. I don't think we have a massage therapist here, and the fingernail business is part time or no time because the hair cutter ran away. Timber communities aren't the most prosperous places to be, or the most stable.

Let me see, I'm sure we've forgotten some places, like, Prineville. I heard houses were cheap in Prineville because Les Schwab moved out and the Forest Service moved out, and that's the way it is.

Maybe Happy Camp, CA?

 

[2dogs]

Maybe Happy Camp, CA?

NO! We don't need or want anymore immigrants drinking our water. Pretty soon we will all be lacking our precious bodily fluids. "sides California has a plethora of unemployed massage therapists on welfare already.

 

[RiverLogger]

Madras, Terrebonne, Heppner........

 

[RiverLogger]

bend is a zoo anymore.

Hey paccity. Why haven't you recommended Valsetz?