Imagine these places you mentioned with large populations have higher crime isn’t that a mindblower

I live in Yachats. While the beauty of this area is what attracts visitors, it is the people here that make it the place to live. Great little village, wonderful people. I am a photographer. If you want to see more images of Yachats and the area around us, I including a direct link: www.scottgeographic.org/CentralCoast.

Great video! I’m from Toledo and my family has lived there for generations. I’ve lived in central California all of my adult life but I’m looking to move back 💚🌲

Mispronounced Glenada

Are you from California?

I grew up there in Coos Bay. Its a drunk and drug infested place due to rain 10 months out of the year. Believe me it sucks and jobs are low pay.

I visited Lincoln City, Newport, Depoe Bay, Waldport, Yachats & Florence 4-5 times in the past 10 yrs. I live in Chicago & comparing the crime (that I’ve grown up with) to the Oregon coast made it seem like I was visiting a monastery. I’m seriously considering relocating to L.C or Newport for my retirement.

Cannon beach is tillamook county dude

One of the top needs in retirement is medical care. We tried it out for 6 years prior to retirement to make a decision., moved to Boise and live minutes from great medical facilites. Kept the place on the ooast for a few months a year to enjoy the weather but not our retirement place,. many of our friends who aged have left for the same reason. NO specialties, months to get appts. in Eugene, and don't have a stroke on tuesday or thursday.

I've lived on the Oregon coast for about 32 years. Summer is spectacular ... January thru mid-April is a good time to visit Palm Springs. See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmGWiZKXich-d8k

I am surprised that someone who specializes in Oregon coast properties mispronounced Yaquina.

No jobs, high drug use in Coosbay. Astoria lovez Heroin and meth. If you want calm, beautiful nature. Any where between Florence and Newport is the up and coming area. But still underdeveloped. This is blowing smoke trying to sell you into three worst spots.. every part of the coast is nice to visit, each place for different reasons. Living there is a different story. Yachats is just beginning to buzz

Depoe Bay - great VRBO condos.

I wonder if some of the reported population decline for Astoria and Seaside is because homes that were occupied as primary residences have been purchased as second or third homes.

Gawt damn man you showing your face more than the town! Seaside is a cool little town but, its not for everyon. Weather is typically shite most of the year. Rain... colder. Coastal temps usually much cooler than inland. Lots of dumpy little shacks and bungalows just outside the main tourist areas.

Newport has mad homelessness and drugs. It is very beautiful, hospital is new. Waldport uses the Newport hospital and it is a sweet place with a beautiful bridge and bay.

Reedsport is nice. It is very small, but it does have 2 grocery stores, an ace hardware, and a dollar store. They have very few restaurants but they do host the chainsaw carving contest! It's a cool place. So is Winchester Bay/ Salmon Harbor. Reedsport has the Lower Umpaua Hospital. Not large but ready and able.

Family lived 18 miles west of Forest Grove. Had Family relatives in Astoria and Friends in Tillamook. Liked the coast. I retired from the Navy 11-92. I live in Mount Vernon, Washington since 7-94.

I travel from Eureka CA to the Oregon border several times a year. I just cannot tell you what a beautiful drive it is, and I have travelled all over the world and seen some amazing views... Goonies the movie was filmed partly on the Oregon coast at Astoria.

Newport is our favorite getaway place. Good restaurants, Nye Beach, the harbor, the Oregon Coast Aquarium, close to other coastal spots.

I love how all these real estate videos about the Oregon coast never ever mention the elephant in the room, namely, the inevitable magnitude 9 earthquake from the Cascadia subduction zone. If you're considering buying on the Oregon coast, be sure to buy something above the tsunami zone, not on a steep hillside and built since the seismic codes got decent, meaning at least since 1994 and preferably since 2001. That pretty much rules out most of astoria. Newport's Bayfront and Nye Beach also will be toast.

Lincoln City has tens of thousands of tourists in the summer. The crime statistics are misleading. If it were just a town of ten thousand people the crime rate would be a bit high. 40-60K including tourists the crime rate is tiny. It rains a lot in every coastal town.

Salesman.... Come here so I can take your money. It's always raining there and really cold wet and drewey. 95% of the year. Traffic is horrific outdated roadways. Really bad health care. Super high taxes. Really bad meth and homeless population.

Living in Troutdale now, but if I were to move to the coast? It would be for the accessibility to seafood, so towns with fishing fleets would be my choice. *HOWEVER.....* The _'Cascadia subduction zone'_ off the coast is a ticking time bomb, and I feel much safer up on the hill here in Troutdale.

Calling the Oregon coast affordable is a joke. If you're rich, it might seem cheaper than some places. But job opportunities are all but non existent, and all are low pay. Astoria has a lot of artsy shops, but you don't want to walk the streets alone during the day, or at all at night. The homeless problem is out of control. Warrenton would be considered the wrong side of the tracks in the best of times. Seaside is a S...hole. Do yourself a favor. Stay away. I want to leave. But at least I live outside the cities, so since selling everything won't get me enough money to go anywhere. here I am.

Oregon is for me Coco.

The weather will always keep me out of the Oregon coast. I love the video you have here. Sunny skies and moderate weather. The reality is, it rains there more than anywhere I’ve ever visited. As bad as it rains in Portland, it’s even worst on the coast because of the blocking effect of the coastal mountain range. Big no thanks.

I grew up in Gold Beach, 28 miles north. I now live in Brookings. And agree..." Chetco affect ". I live down town. It is a great place to live! Live and let live. Make the weirdos go back to Portland 😂

Can we hit the brakes and stop trying to turn this state into California at full speed? *Not all money is good money real estate agents*

I've worked in home health for years on the Oregon coast and I can tell you people who owned ocean view homes were so used to it that they didn't even enjoy it or care.

Love you guys videos, always great content! I'm one of the 40 people that moved to Florence. Bought our house there in 2022. I disagree about beach access. It's even better here than other places because there's s bunch of access just north or south of Florence if you don't mind climbing a dune or drive to the abundance of uncrowded beach access parks between Florence and Yachats. You will get miles of desolate beaches. I understand what you're saying though Seth because Heceta Beach is the only easy access right in town.

really sad & nothing to do with you, this is where communities have been wreaked & ground into dust, first drastically cutting the timber industry thru legislation, the owl & such, harvesting & replanting timber was the life blood of these comunities, those jobs gone the forest tinder & select foresting, eliminating every 6th tree, those good people forced to move but not before Fentanyl tore havic on the unemployed loggers, aka also the reason for all of our karma 🔥 fires... just so California can again steal land to build resorts & homes only a select few can afford, you buy into the ashes of those good folks no thank you ! GOD BLESS our washington 🙏 loggers sad😢 really sad 😔 enjoy the view I know they did

Shhhh! Oregon Coast is the best kept secret... oops, not now. Dude!

Locals are frustrated. Don’t buy unless you mean to be there and invest in what is left of the community 😢

Love this! Good info!

Never vacation there and would never live there intentionally. I feel bad for locals.

The beauty of nature is outstanding, however, people are not kind.

I love the coast, but won’t buy there because one day the Cascadia vault will go and that will be it for those cute little towns.

I lived in Newport for several years. It is a severely economically depressed area. I started to work for a newspaper and instead of writing the name of a business down they used the prior business name from 10 or 20 years before to file paperwork because the business names changed so frequently. The turnover in jobs and people moving in and out is tremendous. I was only at the newspaper for a short while and wanted an increase in pay and was told I was already making more than the journalist who worked there. The job situation is dreadful a lot of nepotism and low wages. If you go there please tip generously as these people at motels and waiting restaurants are barely getting by. mj alpine or

The video omits the Coos Bay North Bend reputation as the meth capital of the Oregon coast. Sort of like Bremerton in Washington State

Are you kidding? An ad for a real estate company? I’ll pass.

Wondering if these population drops are the COVID wanderers going back to the office work. So, returning to pre COVID levels?

Thank you for making this video. I live on the Oregon coast and I don’t give a darn how boring it is to people. No nightlife, couple of grocery stores, couple of convenient stores just not a whole lot of things going on here and that’s the way I like it. But if you want to look at the nature side of things, there’s a whole lot going on here. But it’s windy, rainy, cold. 🤮 look for somewhere else to live.

Tillamook wheler

Rock aways , Nehalem Neahtarts

I agree that Seaside should be last. It’s kitschy. If you’re 12 years old and love carousels and video games it’s great I guess. Otherwise 😏 And no cliffs etc which is what makes the coast so beautiful in my opinion.

Smart to mention the wind. And ya,, a block or two can make a big difference! But in general it’s windy. Great video.

If you want to relocate to Coos County please leave your attitude that we locals need saved hidden in your closet. I am not sure my first/last sentence was correctly structured but I am thinking anyone reading it got the meaning. When faced with being the only long-time resident serving on the city planning commission I quit when the folks from California wanted to institute some ridiculous requirements for zoning in residential areas. It is pretty much live, and let live here. This discussion could get a lot deeper and wider but no need here. If you are looking for your dream please do not hold prior residents responsible when you cannot find it. Have you thought about Idaho? When the big earthquake and tsunami happen here on the Oregon south coast Idaho will have ocean-front property. Another option is to stay where you are and save everyone headaches. We have found quite a few times folks who move here end up going "home" to be near their kids, especially after one of the couple dies. So if you are independently financed and can mind your own business just please try to not pay too much when you buy property here.

I live in Newport 15 minutes from Toledo and I’ve been there countless times. There’s a dentist there that I go to and the farmers market. It is beautiful, but “boring“ a lot of those people in the summertime come to Newport because of the ocean and there’s more things to do. It’s a sleepy town there’s nothing going on there. Well, at least that’s my experience for the last six years.

My family once lived in Manzanita for 20+ years. The short term rental industry ruined the area! Some of my family members still try to survive living somewhat close to living in the area. Despite their earning $500 daily they still have just now been able to buy a manufactured house after waiting & saving for 20 years! Our insurance costs went down by 1/2 when we left the coast in 1998 for Dayton Or. The coast is no longer affordable for the working person. The taxes on our old house went from $1,100 a year to now > $4,000 a year for a 600' foot house with no garage or storage on a 2,900 sq. ft. lot! There`s no good health care available on the coast as well & for my elderly mother that was the primary reason to leave the coast. Tourism is not a viable means of supporting an economy. What the narrator does not tell of you is the HIGH turnover of residents once they find out about the lack of good health care services requiring them to come to the valley for medical care. No competition for fuel or food stores either. $$ for everything are way over priced compared to the valley. Manzanita alone has an estimated 40% short term rental housing stock which we know from experience DESTROYED our old neighborhood that had the mayor, firemen, teachers, and a Columbia river bar pilot all living next to us. My father was a master plumber who was constantly struggling against handy people making repairs & new construction without any knowledge of the codes. The drug scene was also very prevalent too. The experiences we could relate would curl your hair!