Tapps is nice but the traffic would suck. My dad has been a teacher in that school district for 40 years lol.
I am guessing you are not worried about a commute then? Hard to beat Fox Island and Gig. People tend to love both areas. Goodluck dude
Do you have access to MSLP for all ensemble models? I am not always seeing it on the wind maps? And some wind maps also don't have the wind animation. (For instance EPS and AIFS ENS don't have MSLP and wind animation)
January 1977 was quite a bit better for Northern Oregon than anything last winter. And for the mountains it at least had a freakishly good May to boost the snowpack a little.