Top 10 Towns

FAOL Community Sound Off
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http://cityguides.msn.com/green/greenarticle.aspx?cp-documentid=5769840&page=2

West highlights; Hood River- Oregon, next to the Columbia River Gorge (More fish than you can imagine, including giant sturgeon) and close to Mt Hood and Timberline Lodge, with 5 ski areas. Not far from the famous Deschutes River and Central OR flyfishing.

McCall- Idaho, with the Payette River flyfishing, 2.3 million acre Payette National Forest.

Salida- Colorado, 300 days of SUN!, next to the Rocky Mountains and Arkansas River white water.

Livingston- Montana, with the Yellowstone River, YNP 60 miles south, the Gallatin National Forest, Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness, 12,799 ft. Granite Peak and Dan Bailey’s Fly Shop.

More interesting Towns in the Article.

Doug

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Also in the article under 5 most green cities is this photo. Who knew Chandler Bing was a fly fisherman??? :lol: :lol: :lol:

http://cityguides.msn.com/green/greenslideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=4848659&imageindex=2

Anybody know who this Grand Rapids fisherperson is?

Ps. I was suprised as all get out to discover that Chandler Bing the character on Friends played by Mathew Perry is named Chandler Muriel Bing.

Man you wouldn’t want that information to get out to the schoolyard bully.

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got to say Doug they hit it on the head for mccall, idaho. It is a very nice town and all the places they mentioned to fish I have been to and done quite well. Only thing aobut that town they forgot to mention is it costs a fortune to own property there. Looked at a single wide trailor on a coner lot one time. Thought I might like a retirement home there. This was 4 years ago. Asking price was $265,000. and they got it to but no from me. It was a old 1970’s trailor house. Whoops should have said manufactured home sorry.

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Bob,
They conveniently left out the “PRICE” of living in these Top 10 Towns.
Doug

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Well doug one thing about it if you ever want to fish any of these areas around mccall and you are in the area just holler a couple of weeks in advance and I will take the time off (unless I already did take that time off ) and take ya around the area it is gourgous country.

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May I never live anywhere tourists are sent.

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Then you better move. Colorado?? :smiley:

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Colorado is a large place, and contrary to assumptions, actually has other locations in it that are not either Denver or ski areas.

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My Town is a tourist trap. In summer the population raises by 1/3 . When I was born here in 1944 there were 3800 people. As the baby boomers begin to seek retirement homes they are flocking to the Sunny Okanagan Valley to live.
As a consequence there are now 100,000 or more people crowding in here.
I may have to move to Colorado because I heard that Denver and the ski areas aren’t the only places left in Colorado to place scars upon the land. ( John Denver )
Its called progress. :?

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My Town is a tourist trap. In summer the population raises by 1/3 . When I was born here in 1944 there were 3800 people. As the baby boomers begin to seek retirement homes they are flocking to the Sunny Okanagan Valley to live.
As a consequence there are now 100,000 or more people crowding in here.
I may have to move to Colorado because I heard that Denver and the ski areas aren’t the only places left in Colorado to place scars upon the land. ( John Denver )
Its called progress. :?

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Welcome to Omaha. :lol:

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Gnu Bee: “population raises by a THIRD”?? where you live? Sorry, mate, but try TRIPLES in population and see how ya’ like it!! HAHA!!
I live “betwixt and between”, Seaside and Astoria, on the coast here in Oregon. “Tourist Heaven” so to speak… sandy beaches, more trinket shops than churches OR BARS, “vistas and views”, “Historic sites” and even more “Historic Sights”!

Lewis & Clark ended up here, for a winter stay over, so we have their recreated fort and all that goes along with it. Seaside’s also the “End Of The Oregon Trail” so a few hundred thousand come every summer to stand around and say to each other… “Huh, so THIS is where they had to stop, or drown in the ocean!?”. Or, as “Lewis said to Clark” when THEY arrived here… “Wow! Long time, no sea, Clark!”

And, that’s only two of about 300 hundred “tourist draws” in the area.

There’s OTHER huge drawbacks to living where I do, too…The Women’s Beach Volleyball World Cup is held here, every summer. Miss Oregon is held in Seaside, and the Women’s World Rowing Teams Cup is held in Astoria. But, we manage somehow, to put up with these things, too of course.

However, there’s also 11 fishable lakes, within 10 miles of my house, with one across the street from me and another less than a mile away. Salt water fly fishing, for Silvers, Steelhead, etc. is a about two miles, from my front door. One, very good Steelhead river, runs right through town. “Sea Run Cutt’s”, are also available in the same river as well as many others just a few miles up and down the coast too.

But, “population”?? Well, in the summer months, we don’t “drive our cars”, here, we “SURVIVE” when we’re out driving. Yes, since they’ve allowed semi truck drivers to pull 3 semi trailers, here, in Oregon on the highways, we have tourists that are driving a 36’ Itasca motor home…pulling a Jeep Cherokee…with a boat on a trailer hitch of the Jeep. I didn’t know, that was even legal, but I saw many set ups like this going past my house last summer!!!

So, I guess it’s “where you want to live and what you want to put up with”, that makes any place “The best place to live”!??

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Well, it’s nice to know that I’m able to spend almost half my time just a few miles OUTSIDE (better than inside) one of the towns on the list (Livingston, MT).

And I also see that Boone, NC is one of the top 10 towns. That’s not too shabby a place to do a bit of trout fishing either. A couple of my cousins live there, and have caught some pretty big trout right in town, as well as in the beautiful mountains just outside town. And, thankfully, trout aren’t even mentioned in the article!

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There are a few Towns in Oregon that “Used” to be great places to move to. The line is crossed when the Towns become too popular and loved to death.
Silverton, Seaside and Sisters have done a good job of dealing with Tourists, in my opinion.
Sunriver in central OR is a great place to visit also.
Doug

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Hey Gnu Bee, … You gotta get away from the crowds :slight_smile:


My friend Jack on the July long weekend 2003

Or move North. With the Beetle kill, I’m sure if you moved to Quesnel, you’d have the Black water River all to yourself.