I can only address your South-central Oregon option. It's 137 miles between Bend and Klamath Falls. For any hospital, medical specialists or significant shopping, you would need to go to one of those two cities. LaPine is spread out and growing. It's about 30-40 min. from Bend. The rest of the towns along hwy 97 are pretty small. There are decent fishing opportunities all along that route. You have the Cascade range to the west and high desert to the east. The climate is much drier than western Oregon with colder winters. Oregon has income tax and property tax, but no sales tax. Gas prices in the northwest are always higher than the national average.