Although I plan to visit Scotland (and the rest of the British Isles) next year, I can't imaging living anywhere than here in Eugene, Oregon. I grew up in northern Ohio, western upstate New York and West Virginia. I've had enough of snow and humidity.
Here in the southern Willamette Valley, we're surrounded by fertile farmland. We're 100 miles from Portland(in case you need big city access), 60 miles from the Pacific coast, 100 miles from the Cascade Mountains, forest, rivers and lakes within a stones throw. If I want snow, I can run up to the mountains, play and leave it there (as in no more shoveling).
The summers are dry and humidity is at around 40%. We do tend to be grey outdoors for most of the winter, but the rain is not heavy like it is back east.
Eugene is small enough that you get to know many folks and being a college town, liberal in it's outlook on life (to each their own).
Dale
--Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich
The Most Honourable Dale the Unctuous of Giggleswick under Table
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