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The Portland area would dominate the aggregate because they have 80-90% of the population. I mean, how many in tech are going to move to Pendleton anyways? I’ve heard Bend is kind of hot these days, but went through during a forest fire and wasn’t impressed.

Oklahoma is a bit more balanced on population than Oregon.

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As someone who grew up in Tulsa and have lived outside of Portland for almost 15 years, I feel confident saying that Portland has gone down the drain in the past few years and is completely overrun with heroin camps covering every inch of public parks and green space. It's still better than Tulsa.

If you’re into heroin I guess it’s better than Tulsa.

If you're into Meth I guess it's not.

Seattle has gone the same way.

I work remotely, in Bend, and am quite happy with it. It's dry enough to be habitable, which the western half of the state where I grew up is, sadly, not. Lots of great outdoor stuff.

Only a little more than half. Portland metro is 2.4M, state is 4.15M.

It really depends on what you call the Portland area I guess. See https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7nz9fq/a_populatio...

I bet your number includes a few people in Washington if it’s the official Portland metro area one.

I'm going by the census definition of the Portland MSA.

Right, then it’s less than 2 million with the remainder in WA.

Urban places are liberal, Rural places are conservative. Same trend everywhere in the US, even California.

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