>Just out of curiousity, whats the range of prices you've seen there for the type of property you'd be interested in.

It's nothing like what you're likely to see in SoCal, but what I'd pay ~US$135K for in Indianapolis or Charlotte, NC would run around US$235-270K in the Redmond area. This is your typical 1600 sq. ft. ranch-style/rambler with a 1/4 lot. When we lived in Indy, we had a 2000 sq. ft. house on a wooded acre, and in the city, that cost us a whopping US$82K. As you might guess, we suffered a bit of sticker shock when we moved out here. :-)