My brother!

Bend is the perfect town. It's like a movie version of the 1950s. You go there and there are packs of clean cut kids running around at dusk through the parks, jumping off the bridges into the lake and having fun with no one concerned for their well-being because there's no reason to worry; it has breweries; it has nature and exercise opportunities, everywhere; skiing is close by; there are lots of good restaurants; it's the ideal size; the weather is great. It's like the Twilight Zone in that somehow you are slipped into an alternate universe of perfection and you are like, wait, is this real? That neighborhood of big craftsman houses across the lake/river from downtown... holy moly, I would legitimately stab someone to be able to live there.

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Posted by Year of the Dragon

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Posted on 8/5/16 at 2:50 pm to Cooter Davenport

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Bend is the perfect town. It's like a movie version of the 1950s. You go there and there are packs of clean cut kids running around at dusk through the parks, jumping off the bridges into the lake and having fun with no one concerned for their well-being because there's no reason to worry; it has breweries; it has nature and exercise opportunities, everywhere; skiing is close by; there are lots of good restaurants; it's the ideal size; the weather is great. It's like the Twilight Zone in that somehow you are slipped into an alternate universe of perfection and you are like, wait, is this real? That neighborhood of big craftsman houses across the lake/river from downtown... holy moly, I would legitimately stab someone to be able to live there.

Everything you said is spot on. It's almost too perfect to be real. Comparing it to the Twilight Zone is very accurate. My wife is from the Pacific Northwest and I went to Bend while we were out visiting her family. It is the only place I've ever been where I literally did not want to go home and I've been all over the U.S. The only problem I found there is the cost of living. The locals call it, "Poverty with a view." However, if I could talk my wife into moving there, I would be gone by this evening. She says it's too close to her family. I get that.