Good place to live, with a catch.
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1/17/2010
Enterprise is an uninspiring town with inspiringly beautiful mountains to look at. It is a very pretty area, but with a catch. Winters are LONG and very COLD. Winter starts in September, with the first snowfall. Fall is mildly cold, but kids wear parkas over their Halloween costumes and go to organized parties instead of Trick-or-Treating because the temperatures are already in the teens at night. There isn't a lot of snow. The snow isn't deep enough for much skiing. If it warms up above freezing in January or February, you can forget exercising, unless you have indoor equipment. It becomes too icy to take walks. April is sleety, leading into a wet May and June. July and August are "summer", but act like spring. Then you are back to winter. It is a very nice, small community, with honest, friendly people. It is nice to go to the store and have people smile back instead of averting their eyes. You meet everyone you know at Safeway. It helps a lot if you are right-wing fundamentalist Christian. If not, it can be darned uncomfortable for a while.
Sharon | Enterprise, OR