Portland Oregon always seems to get the brunt of the “depressing weather” talk around the world. It might not be true or deserve it?
 
I have been communicating with some buyers lately on the internet, one of them just told me “they got there first frost” yesterday, the other one said “what a crazy time in Hawaii, with the 6.6 earthquake and the big follow up tremors”! Another buyer told me that “the floods and steady rain in Southern California over the past 10 days are enough to make them move north”! The last couple were shocked to see 2 feet of fresh, wet, heavy snow in their city!

Portland has a very moderate climate with much less rain than many other cities such as Atlanta, Boston and even Chicago.  You can water ski until Halloween without a wet suit. You can snow ski at Mount Hood www.ski-hood.com and www.timberlinelodge.com/  year round, with fresh snow falling sometimes in September and October. The best part is the bike riding, walking or running on all of the hundreds of miles of bike paths and trails, most of the year, without freezing.
 
Most all of the buyers I work with are moving here because of all of the outdoor activities, the abundant jobs and the restaurant selections. The sellers I work with, if they have to move, are dreading the fact that they will not be able to take full advantage of the outdoor activities in the city they are moving too.
 
Last weekend, I met some folks at an open house that just moved here from Manhattan and up state NY. They mentioned to me that they were sitting outside at a sidewalk café last Friday afternoon, enjoying a beautiful Portland Oregon Fall day with temperatures at about 70 degrees and an early dinner, they were speaking with their folks in Buffalo, NY, their folks mentioned to them that it was snowing and that they expected to get 2 feet of snow!   But here in Portland my day lillies are still blooming and there is a good chance that the weather this year, will not provide one snow flake?!