00:00 greetings and thank you for being here i discovered that in the last two to three years America has had a huge resurgence of people relocating and so I was thinking that some places that I am very familiar with i thought maybe I would pass along some very useful information to well potentially help you relocate and that's what we're going to do we're going to jump into this episode and we're going to talk about a place that I know to be very special so come on in [Music] [Music] [Laughter] oh Nelly it's the Earnest Man Show baby

01:05 with your host Ernest [Music] Man so now like I said if you are someone that wants to make you know a pretty significant uh change in your life uh and you were considering the west coast but you've heard all the stories about all the nightmare that is California and that you know living here in the Pacific Northwest myself I can tell you it's no i mean people fleeing California like rats from a ship going in every direction including uh due north which is Oregon uh yeah yeah that um that pretty much sums it up it really is

02:10 that bad so bearing that in mind um you know if uh if you want want something different um and you don't mind rain um yeah come here i know for instance um there are many other uh people that talk about this state talk about the cities within this state and they live here and uh but I'm older and uh you know I think Briggs is one of them and you know okay you know Briggs is his own thing I I don't want to you know piss him off or anything until I get a longer and stronger legal team but anyway um yeah it's um I I use uh I use

03:06 a different language set um to describe things and um so uh you know it's where does one begin um unpacking all this crazy i meant uh describing uh the great state of Oregon how do I how do I do this so uh yeah well do you um one of the things that's uh commonly said here is that this is one of the very few places that you can have four climates and visit them all in in one day and you know technically that's true it is so you got your your uh coastal and you got your high desert you know um you got

03:48 your you know your direct ocean um yeah so you you have all that um and you can um especially you know in the spring summer you can do those things it's true um you and about 300 other million people because that's what it's going to um look like and feel like then there that is the reality of the situation because everybody that lives here including yours truly um have been pen up and dealt with 8 months of rain and that's basically what it tucking is is eight months of well actually eight months of more or less

04:34 drizzle and by and large the other weird thing that isn't mentioned about the rain is like yeah it just kind of more or less i mean sometimes it may rain really hard for you know 20 minutes a half hour or so it could really come down but generally it's just a cold drizzling endless drizzle for like eight months so and here's the weird thing again that's not mentioned it's seldom thunderclaps i mean you you get them and when you do like I had one about a month ago or so um it was it shook the house

05:20 and of course I live in Salem but it it literally shook the house it was like it was it was basically it sounded like bomb went off uh like 50 feet away from my house it's not that often but it does happen but generally it rains all the time but you don't get thunder and lightning you get like maybe a little tiny bit here or there it's just weird it's a weird feeling it's certainly not Midwestern it's certainly not east coast but it rains all the time and you uh you know need no thunder or

05:59 lightning so there's that um so yeah and as far as these other beautiful places and yes Oregon certainly has plenty of natural beauty that you'll be able to see in any direction with five million other people and that's the thing when you see these promos promo videos these happy campers these pricks and they you know and they're they're going and you they're um using drones and and uh they're pointing out um you know areas that um you know are absolutely scenic and beautiful and you know all that um but

06:45 these things somehow are staged i don't know if it's like really early in the morning or what or how the hell they're doing it or they're hiring professionals i'm not certain um but I do know that's not the reality when you go to the coast if you go to the coast in you know early especially early spring uh when the weather breaks usually around it's steadily warm doesn't do that until April or May i'm not it's that late in the season you have to it's not reliably warm consistently reliably warm

07:22 until you know Aprilish May depending depending on the year um March is pretty much slowly transitional but you know like today it's still cold it's cold it's supposed to warm up Monday Tuesday right now um it's it's cold so um yeah um but yeah when things break you want to go to the coast you want to go to say Newport uh very these are the very big common areas that you know on the coast for fun and some tourism and whatever but all these small towns that dot the coast would be like Newport um Lincoln City uh if you head

08:06 way up north you're going to like Tielemuck that's way up north of that but there's a whole number of towns and cities on the coast Kuz Bay area you know all this and they can be in their own right don't get me wrong they're nice and they're quaint and they're pretty and they got great food and lodging and they got all this but you're also going to be there and it's going to be bumperto-bumper um yeah uh people and I mean it's really unpleasant it's like so yeah I mean it's you know it's kind of

08:46 like people you know get on elevator and 5,000 all have to get once and so that's what you have to look forward to spring summer and it stays that way throughout the summer because it's not only the locals here but play people from other states other places they fly in they travel in and they're with their relatives and so they're here too so the merchants and the people that live on the coast that actually live on the coast it's forever and ever been a a you know a lovehate relationship

09:24 because they love the money but they actually hate the tourists they smile and they go through the motions but I know I know quite a few of them and I know the merchants and it's just like between us that we talk and yeah it burns them out you know naturally you know that you have to rely uh relentlessly um on tourist people coming in this is like the Egyptians that had to rely on the on the floods from the Nile because it floods but it sustains your life so there's that but if you are anchored here and you live

10:03 here as I do you also have to deal with the huge influx of people and it's not just people for the coast or whatnot it's just people visiting for endlessly for sports events um all different kinds of events that happen uh yeah um bumper-to-bumper people so it makes it really unpleasant so there's that overall though what I would a few other things that I would mention that's really important and you know basically this is like the the the the 800 lb gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about but I am because well you

10:46 know I don't really I don't really care about appeasement i care about you know trying to let you know something that you could use so uh yeah we have um we are a sister city um of um Mexico and we are definitely a sanctuary city and what that means is that we have uh what's the word culturally we are culturally diverse actually well actually not really um because like if you're in New York City where I grew up um you that's culturally diverse you have all these different well cultures and languages

11:39 not here you got a lot of primarily Mexicans a lot of a lot a lot of a lot of Mexicans ew uh yeah uh that has been um causing difficulties with the local population even though many of them didn't want to admit it so uh then that causes a problem on the coast as well in the summertime so yeah there's that and um I you know I mean um there are so many there's just so much I could talk about this and I can't go on forever but yeah it's a big deal it's a de it's a big deal and this is a huge divide

12:32 between uh what is east and west Oregon and that is divided basically to I5 which runs the length of the state uh one major highway and it's the folks that live east of that and the folks that live west of that and here in Salem the capital uh they make the rules and um um yeah um pretty pretty uh steadfastly socialist definitely so yeah um uh and that causes that has for years and years and years this is nothing new it's caused a great deal of contention because basically uh the people the ranchers the you know the normal working

13:24 folk the normal folk who you know work hard for their money not getting $10 frappuccinos or whatever the hell they're called um yeah they actually work but they have to suffer i mean they have to live under the laws that are made here in Salem and uh they got a lot of resentment because let's just say um yeah they they kind of have an agenda you might say here in Salem it's it's uh yeah it's not exactly good common sense so I hope that little bit just that little bit of information about the uh uh state people's republic

14:11 as I call it of Oregon is helpful and if there's anything else you want to know you know how to reach me and uh you know to subscribe and hit the button and all that damn jazz and um if you you know you got any questions you want to know something let me know i'm here and um jeez what can I say uh what do I usually say i had to think about this one well I could say something like um until next Monday or Friday this is Ernest and I usually always am