You weren't kidding about it being exspensive that house they want 3M for. WOW!!! Beautiful but very spendy. Thanks for sharing and you have a safe trip and day
There is a reason things cost so much here, I was born and raised here. It's litterally one of the most beautiful cities and the vibe here is amazing having amazing summers and winters and all 4 seasons to its fullest... river lakes mou rains the ocean only a few hours away, the valley only a few hours a way... it truely is a beautiful city but thats what's happened tourist's have taken Over came in and baught up homes and drove out the true central Oregonians people and generations who have lived here before anyone knew what Bend was... they drove the people that deserved to be there out with their high bids and high prices and Los Angelesizing the city... and many come and are not educated on how to live here... and truely have ruined it for so many and put people on the streets or had to move. go see for yourself and talk with anyone.... they forced out Hometown people with their corrupt BS. it's sad honestly specially when your feom a town like this and you have seen what happend over the years.
Yep. Grew up in Bend. Lived there 40 years. Just moved to Tennessee . They were making running an agriculture based business nearly impossible and I saw no future for my kids. I was literally told that Bend didn’t want my type and I should leave. I did and I’m happy.
We also have a pretty, rural (for fairly urbanized Massachusetts) town, Hardwick. However, we are Extremely fortunate that people here DO cherish the town character. 17 years ago, Casella tried to put in a regional landfill on the edge of town and, thankfully, it was voted out!! Enough citizens saw through the bs promises that "money would be coming into the town" from Cassella. A couple of years ago, a group of billionaire investors who wanted to establish a gambling center - under the guise of "horse raising and racing" - was shut down - over 800 against the gambling center to only ~ 300 for the gambling center. ( Yup, we are a small town) Casella is trying to come back - again - with trying to place a regional dump in our town - and the citizens are even more strongly against the dump than even before. We are a very fortunate town to have citizens who have the foresight to be against this stuff. (Yes, unfortunately, the real estate taxes are fairly high, but they are all over New England)
Fun fact about Pine Tavern: there’s a tree growing through the middle of the restaurant. The bar is in the front so maybe you didn’t get to see it. Yes, Bend is pretty expensive, but there are more reasonably priced restaurants. Pine Tavern is one of the most expensive in town. Another great thing about Bend is there is always something going on, especially in the Summer. We have lots of parades, festivals, multiple farmer’s markets, and more breweries per capita than any other town in the country. Thanks for showing our town and safe travels to you.
When I first started climbing in Smith Rocks more than 30 years ago there was nothing but nothing from Smith Rocks all the way to Bend, and now it's all built up. Bend was a small town for the average person back then. An undiscovered jewel that got discovered. This is why we can't have nice things.
I remember when Bend was around 10,000 people. I knew an old guy who's parents were pioneers, his first job was hunting jackrabbits. When the railroad came through he hired on as mounted security from the packs of feral dogs in the area. Said he got chased into a barn with his horse and nearly froze there for a couple days until the dogs left. Interesting note, by the rr yard south of town there are piles of old oyster shells. They must have been shipped directly north from the California coast.
My grandparents moved there from California to retire in the early nineties, also had an uncle who lived there just outside of Bend. It was so fun to go visit them and spend the weekend cross country skiing, cave exploring, or driving around out in the desert before they gated all of the roads.
I live in Eugene, OR. We occasionally go the Bend area to hunt the elusive Jackalope. BTW... there are large piles of oyster shells near factories on the Oregon coast. As just one example, there were large piles of them at Winchester Bay. I read somewhere that recently a commercially-viable use for them was found but I dunno for sure.
@@SunriseLAW yeah, when the railroads came through Oregon, coastal oysters on refrigerated reefers going north to the Columbia River were a hot commodity. Railroad ice houses were stationed at intervals to replenish the refrigerated cars.
Funny, i am from Dallas and married my wife in her home town of Bend in 1987 when it was small and very affordable and the mill was still working. Now it is like little Portland and a 50,000 dollar home is now worth 600,000.
I grew up here in the 1980's. Was just a small logging town. Now big money moved here from CA and CO. You cant get a house here for under 800k. Normal 2 bedroom rent about $2200. Still nice but not like it was. Traffic is horrible as the roads were not designed for the amount of people here now. You didn't even go to the real expensive areas on the west side. Most homes there are over 4 to 5 million a pop. The homes downtown are old but most are remodeled. In the 1980s you could buy a home here on land for under 200k. Them times are long gone now. All the lower income people were priced out of this town years ago. Homeless come here from CA in the summer to beg on the corners now.
My grandmother was a waitress at the Pine Tavern in the 40's. The food *IS* amazing! I grew up in Central Oregon & still live 20 miles North of Bend. I've experienced the population boom starting in the 90's & prices skyrocketing both of which are staggering. Thankfully I bought a house in 2000. I'd never afford to buy a house in Central Oregon now. Great video! Happy travels!
You completely missed the story of Bend's hyper-growth-- the key reason. When land use planning was implemented in Oregon around 1970, for a brief moment, cities had the ability to declare what's their city limits---- their growth boundaries. City of Bend drew huge boundaries allowing what is basically sprawl, akin to arizona or texas. If the cities in the Willamette Valley had done that, it would look like the Los Angeles basin by now
Bend is a beautiful place with a serious homeless problem. It may not be obvious downtown but people are living in tents and campers out in the desert. Working folk have to live somewhere and there's nothing they can afford in town. And of course there are the druggies and mentally ill too. China Hat Road is a nightmare.
Housing, overall cost of living, I remember reading it's In the top 5% of the US a few years back. And crime is of the charts. I live here, if someone tells you different just look up the stats. Car, house, place of work gets broken into expect absolutely nothing from the police. Even if you have video footage. Completely overwhelmed infrastructure here.
They called it "Farewell Bend" because it was a jumping off point to cross the mountains and people would stay there for awhile to wait for the snow to melt. And they had great memories and were sad to leave.
Hi, I lived in Bend from 1996 to 2008, not as expensive then as now, been to blockbuster many times!! Thanks for the memory!I II worked at The Riverhouse Hotel for many years. Beautiful hotel overlooking the Deschutes River, I had many? If you go back there go up pilot butte, you can oversee the entire city!!
Love the Riverhouse , I went there for dinner for my Senior prom. I grew up in Central Oregon from 1980 to 1985. Then left to Portland to college and came back from 1987 to 1989. Lots of fishing, snow mobiles, camping, lakes, swimming, hiking! Great place to enjoy the outdoors!
This was an outstanding video. I don't know if you saw it when you were eating but in the dining room there is a giant ponderosa pine tree growing inside of the building and it exits out of the roof.
It’s a shame but bend used to be a little ski town with seasonal folks coming to work and play in winter…it was a haven. Now it has become a haven for retired Californians who have pushed up real estate astronomically and brought their bad driving. It grew too quickly with poor city management. I suggest you look at the magic of towns like sisters, at the foothills of the range.
My wife and I were there at exactly the same time. I just got back home to Reno after a week in Bend. Had not been there since 1978 and what a change. I am not sure if I could live there and am positive I couldn't afford it, but it was beautiful and the people that I met were very nice. Lots of great restaurants, scenery and oh, those round-abouts. I went to Blockbuster and got a hat. Bend seems to be a place where people live healthy lifestyles. Even though there seems to be lots of traffic, especially when heading towards Redmond, the drivers were polite and obeyed the speed limits, unlike here in Reno where the speed limits are only a suggestion. One of the nicer places that I have visited this past year of driving to 16 states.
There's always Appalachia, but once the men in suits come in and measure the drapes you know a bunch of rich people are coming to the quaint rural area to live their 'best lives'. Collectively they'll turn it into the opposite of what drew them there in the first place. I'm 58, and I watched this happen to the Bend area. Sad, but inevitable.
Bend used to be a cool old town. All the hoity toity people started moving there in the 2000s. No way you can get that back. I remember driving through when we'd go hunting . Old greasy spoon restaurants , old hardware stores , very rustic . If you go to the south of the town, there is a huge apartment complex with a sound wall along the highway...inside the complex is all green grass and trees you'd find in a wetter climate. Sickening. Californication. If you go there for the charm , it was destroyed long ago.
I vacation a lot in Oregon. It's my favorite state. Last summer I did an Oregon Coast trip. Started in Florence, Oregon and went all the way to Astoroa, Oregon and ended my trip in Long Beach, Washington.
We spent many a spring/summer & fall in the Bend/Sunriver/La Pine areas (2011-2016) - loved it but it was then & worse now the Californication of the west Coast. The taxes (property, vehicle), insurances,... are outrageous & we chose not to retire there
Bend is the most desirable address in Oregon east of the Cascades. The three sisters mountains are a beautiful backdrop to a beautiful town. I looked at houses there years ago. The closest I could get to Bend was about 30 miles out. And the prices are higher now!
Joe here in Perth Western Australia a suburb called Morley had the second last Blockbuster so when it closed in March 2019 the one there in Bend became the last.
Grew up in bend and now live outside seattle, whenever i go back to visit my family i'm always surprised at how expensive things are getting! Rent and houses for sale getting pretty close to seattle metro prices which just seems insane to me.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip oh "Yay" u made my day knowing u guys went thru Sisters. The only bad thing living where I'm @ is the Cascadia's, I'm surrounded by them all even Three Sisters. U can see the very big breathtaking snowed cap on Mt. Jefferson driving down my street heading home.
I eat the whole wheat sourdough bread from there every day, but everything they make is fantastic. I absolutely love the smell when you walk in the door. If they sold Oliebollen I'd be in heaven. I love living in Central Oregon.
Fun fact bend Oregon, sees more sun than most ski resort towns ,it snows at night a lot of the time and the sun is shining while riding the mountain . It also might be the only land locked town that has a small surfboard industry with a smsll collective of shapers who love to snowboard ,Jerry lopez ( pipe master) was the first to arrive in bend ,the guy loves boarding.
You absolutely need to worry about weirdos in Walmart here! Maybe not mugging, but creepy dudes following women to their cars, etc. Even in broad daylight. Trafficking is a real concern.
We spent our honeymoon there, 41 years ago and have been there nearly every summer since. We just got home a few hours ago from Bend! We spend as much time there as possible and living in the Portland area, it makes it very easy. We have watched it go from a tiny, 30,000 population to the near city it is today. There are so many things to do there, it's hard to imagine, especially if you like to get outside. It can be expensive to visit, but we have learned our way around that. Living there is spendy, but there are payoffs, too, like the amazing year around stuff to do and the nearly daily sunshine. Love it!! Thanks for the great video!
I lived in Bend, 77-78 when it was "the fastest growing small town in the US." Was my favorite place i ever lived, i would trout fish the Deschutes on my lunch hour.
My brother made his money in the tech/financial sector in San Francisco in the late 70's, purchased land in Bend and had a VERY nice house built there. Of course, he brought his California liberal philosophy with him. He is now upset that crime and homelessness is becoming rampant in Bend. I think of it as "East little Portland." While I fled to Oregon decades later, a socioeconomic refugee from California, I took flight to a near middle-of-nowhere tiny town with conservative values that is affordable and align with my political views; little crime, "down home" values serves me well. Would I like to live in Bend? Yes, but the cost of living is insane and ever so far above my pay grade. No shootings at our grocery store.
Bend is very nice! I love the downtown and homes. Enjoyed the Blockbuster tour. A trip down memory lane. The river in opening shots is gorgeous! Would definitely visit. Looking forward to Salem.
There was no tax on your bill because we have no sales tax here in Oregon, although some small communities charge a sales tax, especially on the coast. We have a quite high income tax instead. CA refugee here, good real estate deals can still be had in rural areas, which I sought anyway. Not as good as when I bought in '10, but relative to bigger cities, what I'd call good deals. BTW, it's not only Californians who moved to Oregon, jacking up prices, although native Oregonians blame them. I know just as many who have moved from the East Coast or Midwest-NY, MA, OH, FL, UT, MT and other states.
Don't miss the floating rapids through the middle of the Mill District. It's full every summer of floating tubes down through town and getting out in downtown. So fun
I’m glad you made it up to Bend. I was hoping you were going to visit Deschutes Brewery, but you hit all the other highlights of Bend. I hope you enjoyed your visit.
Done a few road trips from the bay area to the Gorge in Washington . Bend was cheap about a decade ago , house on land for about 150k . Things have changed . I remember passing a ghost town just north of there .
We moved from Bend (Redmond) a couple of years ago and I miss it! Central Oregon is a beautiful place with so much to offer. You made a good choice eating at Pine Tavern - it is so good. Next time try Zydeco’s, and the food truck lot “The Bite”. I wish you had visited Sisters, which is right next to Bend. Cutest little town ever. Thanks for featuring Bend!
605 congress is just a few bucks away from 3 mil. Such a deal. I wasn't hungry until towards the end of this video dagnabbit. Thanks for another great trip.
Love the old houses! I own an old house. Way out in the country. In Texas. I have a wooden bridge in my driveway. It was built in 1910. Grew up in a Victorian Gingerbrèad. Older homes with craftsmanship & character. That appetizer looked like a delicious meal to me, 😋 yummy.❤
Grew up in central oregon. As a kid in the 1970’s things were cheap. My grand father paid 100.00 an acre for his land. My mom and dad and us kids lived in Bend on Boyd acres road on five acres. My dad was a supervisor for Moana Maintenance. They were the company that did all construction and maintenance on all the Northwest resorts back in the day. Bends nickname back then was “Poverty with a view” I miss the old central Oregon. As kids we played baseball in the old (Brooks Scanlon) mill yard. Now it’s a theatre and condos and homes. Very sad but time marches on.🇺🇸
There was no tax on the check because Oregon does not have a state sales tax...though some local communities (like Ashland) do charge one. Also, Shaniko is shan rhymes with stan, and iko like ich and oh. It's a cool place to visit in Central Oregon. Looking forward to the Salem video.
I enjoyed the video. As a Californian, I’ve spent time in various places in Oregon, but never Bend. The reason I enjoyed the video so much is that my sister just bought a house in Bend last year to be closer to her adult sons, and I haven’t had a chance to visit yet, and I didn’t know anything about the town. Your video gave a well balanced perspective on the city. Good job!👍🏼👍🏼
A great video, as always ! A lovely town, and I love exploring the residential areas, gorgeous old homes ! A beautiful old theatre, too ! Thank you so much, Joe and Nic.🥰
Oh yes, I know the area in and around Bend is very beautiful country. I live in western Oregon and we went there about 2 or 3 years ago. There was a park to the south of Bend that was nice to go to. A lot of volcanic features around there. Also, another one, I think to the east of Bend, called Smith Rock. That place was nice as well. I really like Bend, but, yes, like you said, it's a very expensive place to live.
Had to watch this because the title was “Bend, Oregon”. Most of my favourite CZcamsrs are from there! So it was nice to see the place. The Tower reminds me of Palace in downtown Calgary. Both were 🎥 theatres at one point.
Nice place in the 60's and 70's. Just like San Luis Obispo, which was a great place back in the day. I have no idea what Bend is like today. I assume the traffic is terrible, as they have no freeway -- well at least some years ago. Cannot imagine how many people live in Bend these days.
It was still awesome in the 90’s-early 2000’s. It’s just gross now. Traffic is bad, because it wasn’t before, but compared to Portland or Las Vegas, it’s not the worst. But there is so much crime, you have to be vigilant. People will steal gas out of cars, and pretty much anything not nailed down! Needles all over the place, too. And poop. Lots of poop.🤢
G,day Nic and Joe from Sydney Australia. The residential building architecture in your video, very Californian bungalow. A style that gained popularity here in the 1930s along with the log wall bungalows. I did once know the architect's name. 🌏🇦🇺
Looks like a really nice place. I'm not a fan of deserts but that town/city I would visit. Someday I'll get over to Oregon and spend time driving around. Someday.
I was an Ag inspector at the California border. All the people from The Bay Area were who went to Bend. Hence the cost and the wage! They went on vacation there and wanted to retire. Traveled through once, stopped at the Walmart and the prices were worst than California! Thanks
I lived in Oregon before it became a liberal hellHole and Bend WAS may favorite town ( area ) in that state. I still have family there but I will never move back.
You weren't kidding about it being exspensive that house they want 3M for. WOW!!! Beautiful but very spendy. Thanks for sharing and you have a safe trip and day
Hopefully you can go way out to the towns of far Eastern Oregon like Baker City. Interesting area.
I saw that as well! $3 million!! Holy moly!!
Yep, $2,999,997. 4 bedroom, 4 bath
So basically, the property taxes are probably around $30k a year!
Wow!!!
There is a reason things cost so much here, I was born and raised here. It's litterally one of the most beautiful cities and the vibe here is amazing having amazing summers and winters and all 4 seasons to its fullest... river lakes mou rains the ocean only a few hours away, the valley only a few hours a way... it truely is a beautiful city but thats what's happened tourist's have taken Over came in and baught up homes and drove out the true central Oregonians people and generations who have lived here before anyone knew what Bend was... they drove the people that deserved to be there out with their high bids and high prices and Los Angelesizing the city... and many come and are not educated on how to live here... and truely have ruined it for so many and put people on the streets or had to move. go see for yourself and talk with anyone.... they forced out Hometown people with their corrupt BS. it's sad honestly specially when your feom a town like this and you have seen what happend over the years.
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Sad. It has happened in many other areas as well.
Yep. Grew up in Bend. Lived there 40 years. Just moved to Tennessee . They were making running an agriculture based business nearly impossible and I saw no future for my kids. I was literally told that Bend didn’t want my type and I should leave. I did and I’m happy.
We also have a pretty, rural (for fairly urbanized Massachusetts) town, Hardwick.
However, we are Extremely fortunate that people here DO cherish the town character. 17 years ago, Casella tried to put in a regional landfill on the edge of town and, thankfully, it was voted out!! Enough citizens saw through the bs promises that "money would be coming into the town" from Cassella.
A couple of years ago, a group of billionaire investors who wanted to establish a gambling center - under the guise of "horse raising and racing" - was shut down - over 800 against the gambling center to only ~ 300 for the gambling center. ( Yup, we are a small town)
Casella is trying to come back - again - with trying to place a regional dump in our town - and the citizens are even more strongly against the dump than even before.
We are a very fortunate town to have citizens who have the foresight to be against this stuff. (Yes, unfortunately, the real estate taxes are fairly high, but they are all over New England)
@@kensporalsky3784Wow - they didn't want agricultural businesses?? There must be newer people in the administration, running the town 😢
Fun fact about Pine Tavern: there’s a tree growing through the middle of the restaurant. The bar is in the front so maybe you didn’t get to see it.
Yes, Bend is pretty expensive, but there are more reasonably priced restaurants. Pine Tavern is one of the most expensive in town.
Another great thing about Bend is there is always something going on, especially in the Summer. We have lots of parades, festivals, multiple farmer’s markets, and more breweries per capita than any other town in the country.
Thanks for showing our town and safe travels to you.
When I first started climbing in Smith Rocks more than 30 years ago there was nothing but nothing from Smith Rocks all the way to Bend, and now it's all built up. Bend was a small town for the average person back then. An undiscovered jewel that got discovered. This is why we can't have nice things.
LOL, oh really? Terrebonne and Redmond didn’t exist 30 years ago?
Unfortunately Internet sites such as this along plenty of others are advertisements for these once affordable and beautiful places.
I remember when Bend was around 10,000 people. I knew an old guy who's parents were pioneers, his first job was hunting jackrabbits. When the railroad came through he hired on as mounted security from the packs of feral dogs in the area. Said he got chased into a barn with his horse and nearly froze there for a couple days until the dogs left.
Interesting note, by the rr yard south of town there are piles of old oyster shells. They must have been shipped directly north from the California coast.
Amazing post!
I like to meet people like and hear them stories
My grandparents moved there from California to retire in the early nineties, also had an uncle who lived there just outside of Bend. It was so fun to go visit them and spend the weekend cross country skiing, cave exploring, or driving around out in the desert before they gated all of the roads.
I live in Eugene, OR. We occasionally go the Bend area to hunt the elusive Jackalope. BTW... there are large piles of oyster shells near factories on the Oregon coast. As just one example, there were large piles of them at Winchester Bay. I read somewhere that recently a commercially-viable use for them was found but I dunno for sure.
@@SunriseLAW yeah, when the railroads came through Oregon, coastal oysters on refrigerated reefers going north to the Columbia River were a hot commodity. Railroad ice houses were stationed at intervals to replenish the refrigerated cars.
Funny, i am from Dallas and married my wife in her home town of Bend in 1987 when it was small and very affordable and the mill was still working. Now it is like little Portland and a 50,000 dollar home is now worth 600,000.
Walking through that Blockbuster felt so nostalgic. Miss those days!
With you there!!
My thoughts too.
I grew up here in the 1980's. Was just a small logging town. Now big money moved here from CA and CO. You cant get a house here for under 800k. Normal 2 bedroom rent about $2200. Still nice but not like it was. Traffic is horrible as the roads were not designed for the amount of people here now.
You didn't even go to the real expensive areas on the west side. Most homes there are over 4 to 5 million a pop. The homes downtown are old but most are remodeled. In the 1980s you could buy a home here on land for under 200k. Them times are long gone now. All the lower income people were priced out of this town years ago. Homeless come here from CA in the summer to beg on the corners now.
My grandmother was a waitress at the Pine Tavern in the 40's. The food *IS* amazing! I grew up in Central Oregon & still live 20 miles North of Bend. I've experienced the population boom starting in the 90's & prices skyrocketing both of which are staggering. Thankfully I bought a house in 2000. I'd never afford to buy a house in Central Oregon now. Great video! Happy travels!
Wow, amazing. Thank you for the comment.
did you live in Redmond?
We also have an exceptionally large homeless population in the area.
You completely missed the story of Bend's hyper-growth-- the key reason. When land use planning was implemented in Oregon around 1970, for a brief moment, cities had the ability to declare what's their city limits---- their growth boundaries. City of Bend drew huge boundaries allowing what is basically sprawl, akin to arizona or texas. If the cities in the Willamette Valley had done that, it would look like the Los Angeles basin by now
Oregon's zoning laws is a big reason I settled here, and live 1 mile from the UGB.
Bend is a beautiful place with a serious homeless problem. It may not be obvious downtown but people are living in tents and campers out in the desert. Working folk have to live somewhere and there's nothing they can afford in town. And of course there are the druggies and mentally ill too. China Hat
Road is a nightmare.
Maybe the should of toured China Hat, Dirt World and the area around Bi-Mart. 🤣
Housing, overall cost of living, I remember reading it's In the top 5% of the US a few years back. And crime is of the charts. I live here, if someone tells you different just look up the stats. Car, house, place of work gets broken into expect absolutely nothing from the police. Even if you have video footage. Completely overwhelmed infrastructure here.
They called it "Farewell Bend" because it was a jumping off point to cross the mountains and people would stay there for awhile to wait for the snow to melt. And they had great memories and were sad to leave.
Excellent info. Nice addition to the great history lesson we got!
Lived in Bend for 20 years! Now Palm Desert, seems not so much different in cost of living. Used to be called poverty with a view!
Hi, I lived in Bend from 1996 to 2008, not as expensive then as now, been to blockbuster many times!! Thanks for the memory!I II worked at The Riverhouse Hotel for many years. Beautiful hotel overlooking the Deschutes River, I had many? If you go back there go up pilot butte, you can oversee the entire city!!
Very cool!
Love the Riverhouse , I went there for dinner for my Senior prom. I grew up in Central Oregon from 1980 to 1985. Then left to Portland to college and came back from 1987 to 1989. Lots of fishing, snow mobiles, camping, lakes, swimming, hiking! Great place to enjoy the outdoors!
This was an outstanding video. I don't know if you saw it when you were eating but in the dining room there is a giant ponderosa pine tree growing inside of the building and it exits out of the roof.
It’s a shame but bend used to be a little ski town with seasonal folks coming to work and play in winter…it was a haven. Now it has become a haven for retired Californians who have pushed up real estate astronomically and brought their bad driving. It grew too quickly with poor city management. I suggest you look at the magic of towns like sisters, at the foothills of the range.
My wife and I were there at exactly the same time. I just got back home to Reno after a week in Bend. Had not been there since 1978 and what a change. I am not sure if I could live there and am positive I couldn't afford it, but it was beautiful and the people that I met were very nice. Lots of great restaurants, scenery and oh, those round-abouts. I went to Blockbuster and got a hat. Bend seems to be a place where people live healthy lifestyles. Even though there seems to be lots of traffic, especially when heading towards Redmond, the drivers were polite and obeyed the speed limits, unlike here in Reno where the speed limits are only a suggestion. One of the nicer places that I have visited this past year of driving to 16 states.
Seems to be a lot of places not for poor people these days
Yup
'Murca- commodify everything.
There's always Appalachia, but once the men in suits come in and measure the drapes you know a bunch of rich people are coming to the quaint rural area to live their 'best lives'. Collectively they'll turn it into the opposite of what drew them there in the first place. I'm 58, and I watched this happen to the Bend area. Sad, but inevitable.
Even middle class folk would struggle financially to live there.
Bend used to be a cool old town. All the hoity toity people started moving there in the 2000s. No way you can get that back. I remember driving through when we'd go hunting . Old greasy spoon restaurants , old hardware stores , very rustic .
If you go to the south of the town, there is a huge apartment complex with a sound wall along the highway...inside the complex is all green grass and trees you'd find in a wetter climate. Sickening.
Californication.
If you go there for the charm , it was destroyed long ago.
I vacation a lot in Oregon. It's my favorite state. Last summer I did an Oregon Coast trip. Started in Florence, Oregon and went all the way to Astoroa, Oregon and ended my trip in Long Beach, Washington.
We spent many a spring/summer & fall in the Bend/Sunriver/La Pine areas (2011-2016) - loved it but it was then & worse now the Californication of the west Coast. The taxes (property, vehicle), insurances,... are outrageous & we chose not to retire there
Bend is the most desirable address in Oregon east of the Cascades. The three sisters mountains are a beautiful backdrop to a beautiful town. I looked at houses there years ago. The closest I could get to Bend was about 30 miles out. And the prices are higher now!
Joe here in Perth Western Australia a suburb called Morley had the second last Blockbuster so when it closed in March 2019 the one there in Bend became the last.
Interesting!
Grew up in bend and now live outside seattle, whenever i go back to visit my family i'm always surprised at how expensive things are getting! Rent and houses for sale getting pretty close to seattle metro prices which just seems insane to me.
Sisters, Oregon is my favorite town! Best bakery Sisters Bakery their apple fritters are the size of a baseball mit.
We drove through Sisters and took some scout footage for a future video. You're right, it's a beautiful town.
Yes! I wish they would visit Sisters!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip oh "Yay" u made my day knowing u guys went thru Sisters. The only bad thing living where I'm @ is the Cascadia's, I'm surrounded by them all even Three Sisters. U can see the very big breathtaking snowed cap on Mt. Jefferson driving down my street heading home.
I eat the whole wheat sourdough bread from there every day, but everything they make is fantastic. I absolutely love the smell when you walk in the door. If they sold Oliebollen I'd be in heaven. I love living in Central Oregon.
@@CattywhumpassproD you get fresh bread there everyday? I'm jealous, I'm lucky if i make it twice a year there.
I live in Bend and have no problem with the snarled traffic. I get everywhere on my cargo bike. Much faster than driving.
the tax in on property owners...you should start reporting property taxes on average on the medium home prices you list
Beautiful. You gotta see the coast!!!! Thanks
Fun fact bend Oregon, sees more sun than most ski resort towns ,it snows at night a lot of the time and the sun is shining while riding the mountain . It also might be the only land locked town that has a small surfboard industry with a smsll collective of shapers who love to snowboard ,Jerry lopez ( pipe master) was the first to arrive in bend ,the guy loves boarding.
Sun?bs smoky summers bend sucks now
Clark Gable worked in the Old Mill lumber.
Been following you for some time, and great to see you in my hometown - and at our favorite tavern. Pleasant journeys!
Awesome! Thank you!
thanks Joe and Nic beautiful town and food looks delicious 👍
Thank you!
It's good to see you guys again, Nice little big town.
Go to a Walmart in Bend, and then go to a Walmart in Salem, OR. HUGE difference!!!!!! You don't have to worry about being mugged by weirdos in Bend!!
You absolutely need to worry about weirdos in Walmart here! Maybe not mugging, but creepy dudes following women to their cars, etc. Even in broad daylight. Trafficking is a real concern.
We spent our honeymoon there, 41 years ago and have been there nearly every summer since. We just got home a few hours ago from Bend! We spend as much time there as possible and living in the Portland area, it makes it very easy. We have watched it go from a tiny, 30,000 population to the near city it is today. There are so many things to do there, it's hard to imagine, especially if you like to get outside. It can be expensive to visit, but we have learned our way around that. Living there is spendy, but there are payoffs, too, like the amazing year around stuff to do and the nearly daily sunshine. Love it!! Thanks for the great video!
Oh my goodness, how many beautiful memories came flooding back when you went into that blockbuster. Absolutely love it, thank you for sharing.
Right!!!? Me too. I was thrilled to walk around in there.
Fun trip, beautiful town and the food looks amazing!
love your videos and Restaurant visits
Great video, I love all of the history you mixed in. My wife and I moved to Bend 2 years ago and we love it.
FYI, there is no retail tax in Oregon. It is not being hidden in the price.
I lived in Bend, 77-78 when it was "the fastest growing small town in the US." Was my favorite place i ever lived, i would trout fish the Deschutes on my lunch hour.
I used to drive thru Bend when I was a trucker. It always smelled like juniper.
Thought I might move there one day. Out of reach now.
It's a California city now! Not worth moving to ..
This is a Norman Rockwell video of Bend. Far from reality.
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My brother made his money in the tech/financial sector in San Francisco in the late 70's, purchased land in Bend and had a VERY nice house built there. Of course, he brought his California liberal philosophy with him. He is now upset that crime and homelessness is becoming rampant in Bend. I think of it as "East little Portland." While I fled to Oregon decades later, a socioeconomic refugee from California, I took flight to a near middle-of-nowhere tiny town with conservative values that is affordable and align with my political views; little crime, "down home" values serves me well. Would I like to live in Bend? Yes, but the cost of living is insane and ever so far above my pay grade. No shootings at our grocery store.
You must live on the West or South side of town lol. We did have a grocery store shooting a couple of years ago.
Bend is very nice! I love the downtown and homes. Enjoyed the Blockbuster tour. A trip down memory lane. The river in opening shots is gorgeous! Would definitely visit. Looking forward to Salem.
Thank you, Alexandra!!!
Eugene is like that as well. Beautiful houses and 200 year old trees jutting out to the sky on the front lawns.
There was no tax on your bill because we have no sales tax here in Oregon, although some small communities charge a sales tax, especially on the coast. We have a quite high income tax instead.
CA refugee here, good real estate deals can still be had in rural areas, which I sought anyway. Not as good as when I bought in '10, but relative to bigger cities, what I'd call good deals. BTW, it's not only Californians who moved to Oregon, jacking up prices, although native Oregonians blame them. I know just as many who have moved from the East Coast or Midwest-NY, MA, OH, FL, UT, MT and other states.
Honolulu is another US city that has a volcano (Diamond Head)
That food was looked excellent especially what joe had and that desert yummmmmy 🤗...even the salad just looked quality and fresh...
What an informative video! Thank you for sharing
Don't miss the floating rapids through the middle of the Mill District. It's full every summer of floating tubes down through town and getting out in downtown. So fun
Thanks Joe and nic ❤...THE FOOD LOOKS GOOD 😊
Beautiful town. I love the old small houses. ❤
Another great video. You guys have nice taste in restaurants/taverns. That meal looked yummy.
I’m glad you made it up to Bend. I was hoping you were going to visit Deschutes Brewery, but you hit all the other highlights of Bend. I hope you enjoyed your visit.
that house 605 NW Congress St., $2,999,997. 4bed 4bath 5,674sqft. pictures of the backyard and inside of the house is beautiful.
This home was built in 1919
Enjoyed the view the landscape was awesome especially the mountains and trees.❤️👍👍
Thank you so much 👍
What a beautiful town. I am so amazed by the range of places you’ve taken us to - from ghost towns to this gorgeous place. Safe travels.
That was the fantasy tour of Bend, not reality.
That food looked real good !! Have fun !!
Done a few road trips from the bay area to the Gorge in Washington . Bend was cheap about a decade ago , house on land for about 150k . Things have changed . I remember passing a ghost town just north of there .
We moved from Bend (Redmond) a couple of years ago and I miss it! Central Oregon is a beautiful place with so much to offer. You made a good choice eating at Pine Tavern - it is so good. Next time try Zydeco’s, and the food truck lot “The Bite”.
I wish you had visited Sisters, which is right next to Bend. Cutest little town ever.
Thanks for featuring Bend!
Thank you for this video very beautiful and exciting place especially that cozy alley ❤🙂
Yes house prices are insane here just like CA. We can't even afford the old homes in Redmond so overpriced it's nuts!
Doesn´t 1% equal property tax? So for that $3m house you´re looking at $30k property taxes a year!
605 congress is just a few bucks away from 3 mil. Such a deal. I wasn't hungry until towards the end of this video dagnabbit. Thanks for another great trip.
I loved living in Bend and Redmond growing up. I miss it sometimes.
Love the old houses! I own an old house. Way out in the country. In Texas. I have a wooden bridge in my driveway. It was built in 1910.
Grew up in a Victorian Gingerbrèad. Older homes with craftsmanship & character.
That appetizer looked like a delicious meal to me, 😋 yummy.❤
Grew up in central oregon.
As a kid in the 1970’s things were cheap. My grand father paid 100.00 an acre for his land. My mom and dad and us kids lived in Bend on Boyd acres road on five acres. My dad was a supervisor for Moana Maintenance. They were the company that did all construction and maintenance on all the Northwest resorts back in the day. Bends nickname back then was “Poverty with a view” I miss the old central Oregon. As kids we played baseball in the old (Brooks Scanlon) mill yard. Now it’s a theatre and condos and homes. Very sad but time marches on.🇺🇸
Great video by the way, I always appreciate your content.
Thank you!!
Downtown Bend reminds me of Old Town Pasadena. Looks like the city did a good job of keeping the place in character and scale.
Funny- I just drove from the Willamette Valley to Boca Chica Texas and back for the eclipse! Welcome to Oregon! Glad you found the Blockbuster.
That was funny you having Nicole, to slide to the right at the restaurant. I wouldn’t let my wife sit next to a strange guy either 😂😂😂
Beautiful place nice trave Joey
Did you skip Crater Lake?? It's amazing!!🎉
I hope they don't miss that....
Hello from the shores of the Hudson Bay, Canada. I really enjoy going on your trips with you and Nic! 🙂
Thank you!!
There was no tax on the check because Oregon does not have a state sales tax...though some local communities (like Ashland) do charge one. Also, Shaniko is shan rhymes with stan, and iko like ich and oh. It's a cool place to visit in Central Oregon. Looking forward to the Salem video.
I enjoyed the video. As a Californian, I’ve spent time in various places in Oregon, but never Bend.
The reason I enjoyed the video so much is that my sister just bought a house in Bend last year to be closer to her adult sons, and I haven’t had a chance to visit yet, and I didn’t know anything about the town.
Your video gave a well balanced perspective on the city. Good job!👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you!
Now I want to visit my sister! Hopefully her two twin sons can join us.
Great video...nice city !
Thank you!!!
The outdoor seating in the alley reminds me of Melbourne, Australia. They have the same, lots of coffee shops and restaurants...very trendy.
Another great video❤❤❤
Thank you, Catherine!!
Thanks for this video!
A great video, as always ! A lovely town, and I love exploring the residential areas, gorgeous old homes ! A beautiful old theatre, too ! Thank you so much, Joe and Nic.🥰
Thank you, CL!!!!
Beautiful but booshee.
Fun for a long weekend 😁🍺
Zillow has it listed for $2,999,997. What a bargain!
Incredible.
And it’s super crowded with lots of traffic most of the year.
That kind of seating in the alley sprang up during Covid on West Coast. It’s all over Northern CA as well. Their called parklets.
Interesting.
And no one uses them in town.. The Fakedemic is over! 🤦♂️
you can't beat the Selkirk Loop, north Wa, Idaho and BC cool towns and great people!
Oh yes, I know the area in and around Bend is very beautiful country. I live in western Oregon and we went there about 2 or 3 years ago. There was a park to the south of Bend that was nice to go to. A lot of volcanic features around there. Also, another one, I think to the east of Bend, called Smith Rock. That place was nice as well. I really like Bend, but, yes, like you said, it's a very expensive place to live.
Had to watch this because the title was “Bend, Oregon”. Most of my favourite CZcamsrs are from there! So it was nice to see the place. The Tower reminds me of Palace in downtown Calgary. Both were 🎥 theatres at one point.
Sisters Oregon’ s Plentiful Shops are really nice, many high end. The accommodations are very nice too!
Some of my forebears were settlers, hence Eby Road north of town.
Welcome to Oregon! I live in a town about 30 miles west of Portland.
Beautiful video! The countryside is spectacular. Thank you for taking us along for the ride.
Thanks for watching!
Nice place in the 60's and 70's. Just like San Luis Obispo, which was a great place back in the day. I have no idea what Bend is like today. I assume the traffic is terrible, as they have no freeway -- well at least some years ago. Cannot imagine how many people live in Bend these days.
Yes, SLO was great 30 plus years ago. Now it's a huge sprawling condo strip mall mess.
It was still awesome in the 90’s-early 2000’s. It’s just gross now. Traffic is bad, because it wasn’t before, but compared to Portland or Las Vegas, it’s not the worst. But there is so much crime, you have to be vigilant. People will steal gas out of cars, and pretty much anything not nailed down! Needles all over the place, too. And poop. Lots of poop.🤢
G,day Nic and Joe from Sydney Australia. The residential building architecture in your video, very Californian bungalow. A style that gained popularity here in the 1930s along with the log wall bungalows.
I did once know the architect's name.
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Looks like a really nice place. I'm not a fan of deserts but that town/city I would visit. Someday I'll get over to Oregon and spend time driving around. Someday.
I used to work on the adjacent Deschutes National Forest back in the early 1980s. At that time, Bend was a metropolitan "city" of 10,000 people.
I was an Ag inspector at the California border. All the people from The Bay Area were who went to Bend. Hence the cost and the wage! They went on vacation there and wanted to retire. Traveled through once, stopped at the Walmart and the prices were worst than California! Thanks
Know area well live 90 miles away excellent video 😊
I lived in Oregon before it became a liberal hellHole and Bend WAS may favorite town ( area ) in that state. I still have family there but I will never move back.