I just brought this up in a posting earlier this week.  Unfortunately, Oregon has consistently ranked in the worst ten states in which to retire for many years.  One year we were number one (the worst state).  This is a very unfortunate situation as we have about 40% of retirees in Lane County living on Social Security checks alone.  The average benefit was stated to be about $1,000 per month when the Register Guard reported the results of the United Way survey of poverty earlier this year.  Oregon needs to be a great place to retire and we should hope to reverse course and make it into the "top ten states in which to retire".  Unfortunately, being a one party state government, change you can believe in is unlikely to occur.