Oregon is a lovely place to visit, but it is a mess to live in. After the tourists have left, it rains like crazy here. Mosquitoes are big as Sherman tanks. The people are unfriendly… and most of us are starving… Our freeways are jammed tighter than scorched rice pudding. Our smog is awful… some days you can’t see from Molalla to Silverton. Fuel bills are so high most people just build igloos in the back yard and spend the winter there… There are no fish in the streams… and nobody has seen a rose around here for years. Actually what happens in the summer when tourists come is that we paint our hills green, put up false silhouettes for mountains, borrow a few lakes from Washington and California, and hire some actors to look cheerful. So… spread the word. Oregon is a great place to visit, but no place to call home.[
That famous copy pasta can be credited to our states great James G Blaine, though some believe it to have been written by a friend of his.