Best Oregon Coast Towns to Live In for 2026 | Full Ranking

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• BA

  @barbhammill2296 · 2 months ago

  You could skip the background music. It’s annoying and distracting

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• BR

  @brookingsbeachcomber · 2 months ago

  The isolation was the biggest factor for us picking Brookings, 7 years here and love it.

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• KA

  @kangarooish72 · 2 months ago

  Great list. Music made me want to gouge out my ears

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• GR

  @gregoneal2013 · 1 month ago

  Really well done in my opinion. Great job.

• RO

  @robinmichel9048 · 3 months ago

  I live in Tillamook. The two biggest drawbacks in my opinion are the climate and accessibility. "Only" 1.5 to 2 hours to the Willamette Valley does not capture the PITA of Highway 6 and Highway 22. Highway 6 is a bit better because there are passing lanes but if you get stuck behind a camper or big truck on 22, it's going to be a grueling slog to get to Salem. As far as the climate, it is really, really damp here. It is beautiful for 3-4 months but you're looking at 8-9 months of soggy weather. It is also very blue collar here, which could be tough for people who are used to a more cosmopolitan lifestyle. Also, internet is terrible.

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• DA

  @dawnshipp6131 · 2 months ago

  I live in Brookings, the word chetco is named after the Indians, there is a memorial about them, at the port at the end of the board walk, there actually is quite a bit of cultural history, before Brookings was established <br>It was called Harbor Oregon <br>And it&apos;s not a rural as one would think. The majority of us love to travel to the valley or even up to coosbay and it&apos;s basically a 2 hour drive give or take either direction, <br>Even if a road goes out due to a road slide the original residents , and family decendents all work together to help the community how ever possible, it a way of living and none of us have ever felt cut off from the rest of the inland areas , there is a such thing as back mountain roads, and some one will have a beefed up 4x4 to get a person inland when needed , &nbsp;just a little insight....

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• BU

  @BunBun_Co · 1 month ago

  So cool this popped up on my feed today! I’ve been thinking about moving to Oregon! <br>I’m really wanting to develop my own homestead. I’d like to have at least 5 acres in small area with easy access to hospital, clinics and grocery stores. But I do have a mostly fixed income. I don’t even need a house on the land. But I do need electricity, sewer , well water ect.

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• MA

  @margoshukri9105 · 2 months ago

  You did a good job thanks

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• CH

  @ChristinaFoster-h2b · 1 month ago

  One major thing you missed about the Coos Bay/NB area is that even though the whole urban area is on the bay, not the ocean, the reason is because the ocean area is all beautiful state parks which were gifted to the state early on.

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• MA

  @mattalley4330 · 1 month ago (edited)

  An important thing to note about Seaside, related to the threat of tsunami, is the two streams (the Necanicum river and a creek whose name eludes me at the moment) that flow south to north through town and are the reason for the series of bridges that one would need to cross to get to high ground east of town in the event of the &quot;big one&quot;. I think that one or two was recently rebuilt to modern safety standards but you cant count on those bridges being the ones you will be near if you are on or near the beach and the unthinkable happens. The other bridges are likely to collapse. There is the large condo building that was built to withstand earthquakes and also be an artificial highground from a tsunami which is visible at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J253MT7RcmY&amp;t=668">11:08</a> but I recall hearing somewhere that it was built to withstand an earthquake in the range of a magnitude 8 or a bit higher and the big one could be a bit over a 9. Not to be all doom and gloom here. I just want folks to be aware. If the Casadia subduction zone earthquake happens and you are on or near the beach in Seaside then frankly I dont like your chances. I used to live in Cannon Beach and when I visit the coast with my family there is a reason I have removed Seaside from our list of destinations. 😢<br>As far as I know most of these other towns have high ground relatively close by.

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• ED

  @edarndt3195 · 2 months ago

  I had a house in Lincoln city for six years. I always wanted the house on the ocean view but living on the east side of the highway of Lincoln city was a lot less battering on my home lot easier to take care of with wind damage and the ocean damage that you get on the ocean front to really hard on your hall living on the oceanfront

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• MI

  @mintysingularity · 4 weeks ago

  Thanks for the video. What would be really beneficial to make your videos more useful is to include a rating for local medical care. Many of these coastal towns don&apos;t have a hospital or even emergency care facilities, and that&apos;s critical information for evaluating a move.