What's up with Oregon??

[jst8a5.0]

Got a weird question. I used to live in the D.C. area and all we ever heard of was California this, Phoenix, Arizona that. Now that I moved to Arizona, all I hear is east coast this east coast that, until I started noticing all the posts from people from oregon. Don't wanna be rude or anything, but last time I heard anything about oregon was in middle school when we played oregon trail in the computer lab! Obviously y'all got it goin' on over there, besides all the rad projects and custom shops, is it a high tech area or what?