We are workationing for the week along the northern Oregon coast. The husband has business in Portland. I can work from anywhere, so we thought we'd try it out to see what it would be like to live there.

We could buy a nice house here for about half the price of Seattle. Restaurant meals are maybe a third less. There is no sales tax in Oregon. 

Our big problem would be the lack of social life. Most properties here are vacation rentals or weekend cottages. This part of the coast shuts down and clears out from the fall to the spring. During the summer it's almost all tourists.