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It's cold as Balls there. The temp is cold, and then the winds come in, and it's cold!!!!
Cut through you cold.
People can be a little odd also.
Lived there for three years. Yup, it's cold but it's not wet and cold like it gets here. Wore my heavy coat exactly once - worked until 2 AM on Y2K to make sure all the code changes were hunky dorie.
It's a lot like Bend with a bit more snow and fewer out of state a-holes to eff up property values and laws. Winters are blue sky sunny and the snow is powder. Winters here are wet, skies are gray, and snow usually turns to slush by 4 PM then to nice slick ice a few hours later.
Population is split between INEEL scientists and engineers, drunk broken down cowboys, farmers, and big haired Jello makin' Mormon women. So, yeah, social activities can be interesting. Fortunately I'm as social as a hibernating bear.
Only thing really weird is that if Halloween falls on a Sunday it gets celebrated on Saturday. Some sort of can't have devil stuff on Sundays. I got blank stares when I pointed out that All Halloweds Day and all Halloweds Eve (AKA Halloween) were Christian holidays.
The town has one of almost everything you get multiple of in Portland. Cabelas is even right next to Sportsmans. Mrs 3M and I are headed back one a few health issues get taken care of, so will likely start the process this time next year with the goal of transition my address on Jan 1 for tax purposes.