Reviews & Comments
Hood River, OR
What else besides recreation and weather? -
3/21/2007I've visited HR several times and agree that the recreation is awesome and the climate warmer and dryer than cities near but east of it. I've thought about living there, but for such a small town with limited ways to earn a living I find the housing to be almost as expensive as Portland and Vancouver. Can anyone elxplain how real estate prices got so inflated?
On the subject of retail and service businesses, I know it's a small town and choices in goods and services will be expectedly limited, but I can't figure out why a community like this, whose restaurants proactively and proudly support local, organic growers, doesn't have a natural market or coop where abundant produce, meats and dry goods can be purchased. Even the farmers market is curiously small and devoid of organic items. Can anyone shed some light on this mystery?
Just trying to figure this place out. HR seems to appeal to the simpler, active, earth-conscious person, yet at the same time, the cost of living and focus on conventional goods makes it a difficult choice for such people.