What is going on, everyone? Are Are you sick of living in the city?
Wanna find a rural town, get loan, buy some real estate who doesn't right today.
We're looking at great rural towns in Oregon.
This is the eighth video in this series.
We did the entire United States to start things off. Then we did New Hampshire,
Montana, Georgia, California, Colorado, and Tennessee so far.
And here we are doing the big state. Oregon.
Oregon is an amazing state for people that love the outdoors and beer.
This state has more breweries than just about any other state.
It has a reputation for being a very liberal state,
which is a little misleading. Yes, it does lean that way.
But most of the towns in the state are kind of the opposite.
It is just Portland, Salem, and Eugene.
They have more people than the rest of the it combined.
So they get all the voting power. So to speak.
Oregon has more nice small towns than most states,
rural towns that are nice are a little bit different.
They have a whole lot of beach towns in Oregon that are small towns,
but they really wouldn't be considered rural towns in all these videos.
I explain that not all states have 10 good rural towns,
and I don't wanna waste time with some places that are a bit of a reach.
And shouldn't be on the list. Oregon has seven with the towns in this video,
we are looking for that sweet spot,
a decent place to live that isn't too close to any major city.
It's easy on the crime rate and it's not five hours away from a hospital or so
far out in the sticks that you get horrible internet.
Those things knocked a lot of small rural towns off this list.
So if you're thinking I missed a really good rural town, I might have,
but chances are one of those things, knocked it off the list. All right,
let's take a look.
Number seven union Oregon union Oregon is in the Oregon
Outback, almost in Idaho. Union was platted on November 11th, 1864,
along the Oregon trail and places surrounded by farmland and past the farmland.
You have a bunch of Hills. It's a nice place. I mean,
as far as the landscapes go, the town isn't the greatest, but it's a rural town.
It sits about two and a half hours Northwest of Boise,
about four and a half hours. East of Portland.
It's about 22 minutes south of LA grand, Oregon,
which is the biggest city around this area. Union, a great place to live.
If you retire on a budget or let's say you work from home and aren't killing it
in the salary department,
they don't have a bunch of jobs here and they do have some poverty issues,
but not a bunch of crime, which is odd.
Normally poverty comes with a lot of crime.
They got 2100 residents living here and they have a crime rate.
That's 31% lower than the national average. They get a thumbs up for that.
That's pretty good, especially for a place that got some poverty.
This is a nice community. I mean,
they have an adult craft night at union Carnegie public library.
Every single month.
I was reading this thing while I was looking up a couple different towns,
one time.
And some of them had craft nights at different places like at the Elks lodge or
the whatever lodge and a lot of 'em had in parentheses describing the night. Oh,
glitter.
apparently glitter is like this horrible thing in the crafting world.
I don't know where unions craft night stands on the glitter situation,
but you should call ahead. And if you're gonna show up,
especially if you got like a truckload of glitter and you know,
you wanna spread the joy. When it comes to housing here,
they don't have a lot for sale right now. Actually they have one place for sale.
It's really nothing you want. But around January and February,
they sold some decent homes and they're normally around 200 to 250,000,
that's it not bad.
And they usually come with quarter of an acre or something like that.
You go outside of town,
they have lots for sale where you can put your own house.
Maybe even get a motor home, put it there, whatever you wanna do.
And they'll start off around 25,000 and go on up depending on the size.
So they get a thumbs up for real estate, cuz it's pretty cheap.
You just gotta keep an eye out. See when something pops up.
If this is a place you're thinking about moving to their internet,
isn't the greatest.
They get a hundred MVP from spectrum covers 94% of the town.
And if you look it up, I had to do some digging cuz it didn't seem right.
They keep showing LA grand has a gig internet from spectrum and you know,
everyone else has great internet there. And no matter,
even if you're looking for union,
they kind of tell you what's going on in LA Grande. So it's a little deceiving.
You gotta dig.
I did some digging and found out that know they only get about a hundred MVPs in
union, which is decent.
I mean you could watch Netflix play video games on that,
whatever you need to do, but it's not one gig,
which is kind of the standard these days.
So they get a faded thumbs up for that one. It's not bad, just not great.
When it comes to healthcare, they do have a clinic in town,
but no major hospitals or anything like that. If you need kind of action,
you just gotta go up to LA Grande, which is only about 15, 20 minutes away.
So they get a thumbs up for healthcare. But union is a nice little town.
It's just in desperate need of some new blood that brings a little money to the
town. Whether it's you're retired or you work from home,
it's a good place to live. Number six, sisters,
Oregon sisters, or is uh, not a place for just sisters.
That's a reference to some mountains that are nearby.
Three sisters is pretty close. And if you don't know what that is,
that's a closely spaced volcanic peaks we have here in Oregon. Uh,
they're part of the cascade, volcanic arc as they,
what they call it in the cascade range.
Basically it's three mountain peaks that are close together.
Sisters is a great rural town. That's on the pricey side.
It has that resort. Mountain town feel you get in like white fish,
Montana Jackson, Wyoming, and maybe trucky California.
Now the town is pretty nice and it's decent. Great little downtown area,
nice pubs, nice restaurants, things like that.
But the outside of town is very rural and it's a town that's gaining Papa with
people like ex athletes and celebrities looking for a getaway type place.
If you wanna buy some real estate here, you're starting.
Money's gonna be around 450,000. That'll get you something in town,
normal house, but it's a little expensive buy most people's standards.
This area goes all the way up though. Uh,
I mean nice cabins with some property go for around two to $3 million.
So when it comes to real estate,
they get a thumbs up just cuz they got a wide range of options for you.
The population of sisters is only 2300 residents with a crime rate that
sits about 48% lower than the national average. That is not bad.
They get a big thumbs up for that one. When it comes to healthcare,
they have some doctor's offices and some clinics that should be able to cover
most everything you need. If you need anything past that,
you're gonna have to go down to bend,
which sisters sits about 30 minutes north of bend.
And Ben has the full blown hospital and everything you'd probably need.
If what they gotten Ben doesn't work for you. You have a very,
a two hour ride to Eugene to the west,
but with what they got in sisters and what they got in bend,
they get a thumbs up for healthcare. When you get into internet and sisters,
you got bend broadband, which will give you a gig.
And they cover about 91% of the town. After that, they got CenturyLink DSL,
which is about 20 MVPs and that's 86% of sisters.
So they get a thumbs up for that.
Sisters is definitely a place for people that like the outdoors,
there is plenty to do here. If you could afford it.
This is one of the better options you have in Oregon. Number five,
Amity, Oregon Amity is a town that was established between 1848 and 1849
by two brothers that came to Oregon via the Oregon and trail.
Their names were Joseph and ahe wat. I think it's a hi a H I O anyway,
the two wat brothers decided to start a town and call it. Amity.
Amity sits about 15 minutes south of McMinville Oregon.
And about 30 minutes north of Salem,
Amity's cute little rural town with about 1500 residents and a crime rate.
That's 42% more than the national average people. Don't do stupid stuff here.
So they get a big thumbs up for their crime rate. When it comes to real estate,
it's not a bad place to live. I mean,
it's definitely not as expensive as sisters,
but it's a little bit more expensive than union Oregon.
They have a couple different places for sale right now ones like 420,000,
the other ones, about 250,000 looking at stuff that they sold just last month.
And like in February and January, the average house here,
a decent one's gonna run you about 275,000 to
$325,000. Probably a little bit more because prices are going up currently.
But somewhere in that neighborhood, this is not a bad place to live at all.
Very nice community. When it comes to healthcare,
they do don't have anything that I could find in town,
but you're only like 15 minutes away from McMinville and they're gonna have
everything you need. Like the Willamette valley medical center,
anything past that, you got Salem right down the road,
about 30 minutes and they're gonna have everything you need.
So they get a thumbs up for healthcare. When it comes to housing,
it's a pretty cheap place. So they get a thumbs up for that.
When you look at the internet of Amity, you Don have any worries,
they got Xfinity, which will give you a gig.
And they cover about 75% of the town. After that you have zip fiber,
which gives you about 120 megs and they cover 84% of the town.
They also have another one called Lira. I believe it's called,
but they have DSL N fiber. They offer one gig and they cover 99% of the town.
So you're gonna be able to find one of 'em.
That's gonna be a to get you some good internet.
So they get a big thumbs up for that one.
I like any place that has multiple providers for internet years ago,
I switched from Comcast to frontier and like three days into it,
frontier went down for four days and I can't have that.
So I called Comcast and just resigned up with them. But you know,
if you're in one of those towns and only as one provider, you're outta luck,
you know, you're at their mercy,
but Amity's in a perfect location where you're far enough away from.
McMinville not like Menville is a big city,
but you're far enough away to where you can live a nice peaceful life and still
have McMinville or Salem down the road.
In case you wanna do something a little more interesting.
Now also McMinville has a college there, Linville university in case you are,
uh, looking to further educate yourself,
or you got some kids that are going to college.
McMinville also has the evergreen aviation and space museum,
which is a really cool place.
They got the spruce goose there and just any kind of flying machine you could
think of, but that's not the best part. That is pretty cool. I like that.
But right next door,
they have a really cool indoor water park that you can go to whenever.
So if you got kids or grandkids or whatever, you just head up the road to that.
Number four Oak Ridge, Oregon. Have you ever heard of Oak Ridge, Oregon,
unless you live in the area or you like to mountain bike or fish,
you probably have never heard of Oak Ridge, Oregon.
This is a great place to live. If you like the outdoors,
especially if like fishing, like fly fishing and mountain biking and hiking,
great place to live. Oak Ridge sits on the salmon Creek. Uh,
not too far from Hills Creek lake or Hills Creek reservoir.
I've heard it called both.
I think my friend will from Herman's outdoors has fished there before it could
be wrong. Uh, if I find that video,
I'll leave a link down below you guys fished most places in Oregon.
So I wouldn't doubt he's been out that area.
Oak Ridge has about 3,200 residents and their crime rate sits at 14% lower than
the national average. So they get a thumbs up from that.
It's not the best on this list, but it's still well below the national average,
not bad Oak Ridge. And they got train tracks too.
So normally when you got train tracks, you got some crime. They don't,
when it comes to internet,
they only get a faded thumbs up because they got CenturyLink.
It offers a hundred MVPs to about 93% of the town.
I'm sure downtown it's perfectly fine,
but they have a lot of homes in the rural outskirts of town.
And I'm sure a lot of them aren't really connected.
They also have another one called Emerald broadband that offers, uh,
fiber just to like 5% of the town and they offer one gig there.
So they don't have the best options, but it least they got internet. Oh,
and I guess Emerald also offers 125 MVP to about 68%
of the town still faded, thumbs up. When it comes to healthcare,
Oakridge does have like a couple medical clinics, nothing major,
anything you're gonna need past that you got that drive up to Eugene about an
hour away. So they get a faded thumbs up for that.
Not they're doing bad work in Oak Ridge.
I'm sure the clinics do everything they can.
I'm sure they're really good at their job. They're just kind of small,
which is to be expected.
It's a small rural town when it comes to real estate Oak Ridge,
they're kind of all over the map. Houses start off around $220,000,
which are decent livable. And they go all the way up to 500, 600,000.
And that's a nice cabin on a Creek with like an acre of land or something.
So they get a thumbs up from that because they got some pretty nice places for a
relatively affordable price. But Oak Ridge is a bit out in the stick.
So if that's not your thing, you might wanna overlook them.
It's a beautiful place to live though. Number three, Prescot Oregon.
Or if you're in, uh, Arizona,
it's Prescot Prescot Oregon is one of the smaller places you're gonna find on
any list I ever do. It's almost not even a town, but it's close to my house.
I like it there. And I've actually looked at property there.
Prescot only has about 50 people living there and it sits about an hour north up
the Columbia river from Portland,
Oregon Prescot is one of those like hidden places that the locals really don't
want you to know about. And here I am blowing the whistle on 'em.
They don't have anything, no amenities, no stores, no gas stations,
nothing like that.
But Longview is right up the road in case you do need anything Longview
Washington's right across the bridge, like 15 minutes. So it's not terrible.
This one's just a nice, quiet little community.
Prescot's one of those towns that you wanna keep your eye on.
If this is something you're thinking about because houses don't pop up too
often, when they do their reasonable rate. In the last couple years,
they've sold some homes for 290 and $275,000.
Right now they have one place going for $285,000. You know,
you just gotta keep an eye on it.
If you're thinking about moving there the other day,
I had a guy email me and go, why do you keep bringing it up?
If nothing's for sale? How mobile things pop up all the time.
He's all but nothing right now.
So I had to go into detail with him that anyone watching a video,
if I've given them the idea of moving someplace, they're gonna do some research.
They're gonna look into it and they might move there in a year or two real
estate changes in a year or two houses go on the market houses,
come off the market. This is just giving you an idea. Anyway,
the real estate in Prescot gets a thumbs up because it's affordable.
It's right on the river. And it's a nice community. When it comes to internet,
they get kind of a faded, thumbs up. It's a small community. So no,
one's really put a bunch of effort into getting internet there.
So you got century linked to ESL that offers maximum speed of 100 MVP. And,
uh, they also have at and T, but that's not the best there.
When it comes to healthcare. They've got nothing in town, but Longview,
like I said is right there. And they've got, you know,
peace and health medical center. They've got a Kaiser place there.
They've got pretty much anything. You need medical wise.
It's gonna be in Longview and that's like 15 minutes away or anything major.
You're gonna go down to Portland. That's only an hour away.
So they get a thumbs up for that.
Obviously they're not gonna have anything in town.
There's only like 30 or 50 people living in the whole town. Number two,
Verona, Oregon. I love Veronia.
I've actually talked about on this channel before.
I've tried to convince my wife to move to Verona a couple times,
my friend Stacy used to live there. I think she lives near me now. Anyway,
I used to work with her at Nike. She lived there, she loved it.
It's a great little town. I've been there.
They got a river running through town or a Creek, whatever.
And it's really neat.
They have like a public swimming pool where they have lifeguards put out by the
town and all that. And it's right off the river. They just kind of flow some,
uh, water into this area and it's a swimming area. It pretty cool.
Veronia has about 1900 residents living there and they've got a crime rate.
That's 63% lower than the national average. That's outstanding. Good job.
Veronia even though Veronia is out in the sticks,
they still have some things that you'd need. They have a Napa auto parts.
They have a subway, they have a couple different restaurants, uh, their store.
I had a friend that grew up there and she said,
the store kind of sucks because they're so far in the sticks.
Everything's almost like double in price. So that kind of sucks.
But like I said,
it's got a nice downtown little bridge that goes right over rock Creek.
The NA halo river is not too far away.
And I do know for that will from Herman's outdoors goes and fishes there all the
time. Now they also have this other really cool thing. It's a bike path. That's,
you know, it's cemented or whatever. Uh, it's asphalt.
And it goes all the way from banks to Veronia and the trail is beautiful and
it's a good distance. It's a 20 mile bike ride. Now. It's not like offroading.
You're not mountain bike or anything like that. It's a nice path.
It's pretty cool. Veronia sits about 24 minutes away from banks,
which is a medium size town. And like, Prescot,
it's about an hour away from Portland, Oregon. When it comes to healthcare,
they have like a family practice in town. Anything past that,
you can go to banks, but more than likely you'll end up like in Hillsborough,
which isn't too far from my house. It's about 45 minutes away from Veronia.
So they get a big thumbs up for that.
I like Veronia because it's a good size rural town that you wouldn't expect it
to be there. I mean,
you go out to the farmland and things are kind of sparsely populated.
Then you kind of go out into the Hills,
then you get to Veronia and Veronia is way out there by itself.
It's kind of big for being not far away from everything else.
It's kind of strange when it comes to internet,
they have century link out there doesn't cover too much of the town.
They also have a thing called coho net,
which offers a hundred megabits per second and they cover about 99% of the town.
They also have Zippy fiber, which is rolling out there that offers five gigs.
Yeah, but they only cover about 10% of the town right now.
So they get a thumbs up for an internet.
It Zippy does get the five gigs out there more than just 10% of the town.
They'll get a giant thumbs up next time around.
I'm sure when it comes to real estate for no is a pretty good place. I mean,
they're all over the map.
Starting off money is gonna be somewhere around $250,000 and the house is gonna
need a little work,
but then you get up to about 300,000 and you're gonna get a decent place.
The highest they got going right now is a really good looking suburban type home
three bedroom, two bath for $400,000. If you got a cool million floating around,
they got 10 acres for sale. That's right on the edge of town.
So they get a thumbs up for their real estate.
All right, before we get to number one, don't forget.
We have another channel called on this day. We would really like it.
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All right on to number one. And number one, Carleton, Oregon,
Carleton, Oregon. Isn't too terribly far from where I live. Also.
Carleton is definitely a rural town. I mean,
it's got farmland for as far as the eye can see, as long as you don't south,
I mean to the south, you got McMinville and that's about 15 minutes away,
probably a little less. This is a nice place to live.
If you like wine and you like creeks, there's creeks everywhere around here.
And the only thing that outnumber the, or the wineries,
they're all around this area,
this is some of the best wine country in the nation right here.
This is like a wine town in town.
There's like 20 wine restaurants or winery type places that are associated with
some kind of vineyard,
which is usually just on the outside of town where they have a ton of 'em look
at these pictures. This is the map. It's insane.
But the Willamette valley is known for its wine. And this is part of it.
So if you're looking for wine fishing and acute small town,
Carleton may be the town for you. It's a really nice place like for Noya.
They only have 1900 residents and a crime rate that's 38% lower than the
national average. So they get a thumbs up for that.
When it comes to real estate here, they don't have much to offer right now.
Matter of fact,
they have one place it's going for like $500,000 and it's a couple acres and
it's just outside of town. But since December of last year,
they've sold quite a few homes in this area.
And they normally go for around 385 to $485,000
somewhere in that area, just right now, they don't have a lot to offer.
So they get a thumbs up because I think they're low end inventory is very
temporary. As I just did this one, I mark Carleton down as one of the towns,
I'm gonna go visit this summer.
So you could be expecting a wine filled video when it comes to internet.
That's not a problem here.
About 80% of the town is covered by Xfinity with one gig, a little over gig,
actually 1.2 and then they got century link that covers 91% of the,
of a hundred megabytes per second. And zip Lee is another one.
That's just going into the town there,
they're offering 25 on DSL and they cover about 15% of the town.
So they get a big thumbs up for internet. When it comes to healthcare,
they got a small clinic in town. And then outside of that,
you go down to MC Midville, like I said, less than 15 minutes away,
and they're gonna have everything you need.
So get a thumbs up for their healthcare. All right.
That's today's video. Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Hope you got some information out of it. Now go out, have a great day.
Be nice to each other.