Has anyone lived in southwest Oregon?

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If you had a hundred acres or so and didn't need a job, would it be nice? I hear flaming liberals, methheads, more liberals, more methheads, and doped up hippies. And more doped up hippies. Would never leave Louisiana, but have a neurological condition that is greatly aggravated by heat. Kinda ruins most of the best parts of living in Louisiana. Not interested in being snowed in for 6 months out of the year, though...

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SW Oregon is pretty snow free, except for the higher elevations. Along the coast has cool summers/mild winters. Very pretty area.

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You heard right about the population.

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Corvallis and Eugene are college towns and are probably closer to your stereotype, closer to the northern partof the state. I have met many a "redneck" from Southern Oregon.

We'd be perfectly happy to do enough farming and livestock to be mostly self-sustaining and not really care about the population, but we do have kids who will probably not want fainting goats to be their only friends.

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We're actually looking at some property a little east of Myrtle Creek

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Not a bad area, pretty mild weather and good people. You would probably like it..

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Funny to hear from you, my son has always wanted to live in Alaska and be a bush pilot, because he really has no use for most people. He just found out how much milk costs in the remote areas, though, and is re-thinking, because chocolate milk is his raison d'etre.

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In some villages milk and other good are expensive. In most of the populated areas, including here....it's about the same price as it is anywhere.

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We're actually looking at some property a little east of Myrtle Creek.

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I actually grew up in a small town on the SW coast of OR. Myrtle Creek was in our athletic conference. Moved back to LA in 1978 and have only been back twice. Most recent visit was 1996. Don't know how much help I can be.

Like a lot of the US, the rural areas are generallly more conservative than are the big cities. OTOH, even the rural areas can have a fair number of liberals. As a whole, the state is rather liberal. The climate on the SW coast is VERY mild w/ lots of rain. In fact, the coast gets enough annual rain to qualify as a rainforest. Winters are usually mild w/ infrequent snow. Highs in the summer are usually upper 80's, but it feels MUCH cooler than here d/t low humidity. Yeah, there are plenty of burned out hippies. Yes, meth has been particularly hard on OR. It's an extremely beautiful state w/ multiple different climates.

No sales tax, but personal income taxes and property taxes are VERY high compared to LA.

I went to college in Klamath Falls, just east of the Cascades, about 1 hr east of Medford and 20 miles north of Cali state line. K Falls is a blue collar town. Lots of hunters. The climate was pretty awesome. I believe the climate is considered high mountain desert. It did not rain much at all, but did get snow during the winter. I was there 20 years ago, so things have probably changed some. K Falls was not nearly as liberal as Medford, Ashland, Euguene or Corvallis. Even the locals made fun of the "granolas".

To answer your question...if you had a 100 acres and didn't need a job....yes, it would be nice. Not sure about the cost of living or taxes.

ETA: The Oregon coast is absolutely beautiful.