Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
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Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#2This doesn't seem worth it. At best you've got a company that can handle this arrangement today, but it seems to dramatically limit your options for new employment or even to survive a changes within the same org.
Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#3And now they want to preserve the charm, so it will inevitably become another ultraexpensive place.
Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#4I think there are other places to work besides the Bay Area.
Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#5> Meanwhile in Bend, a one-bedroom will set you back about $1,100
Funny, my 3-bedroom, 1600 sqft, corner lot just north of Houston costs just $1200
Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#6> Meanwhile in Bend, a one-bedroom will set you back about $1,100 Funny, my 3-bedroom, 1600 sqft, corner lot just north of Houston costs just $1200
Texas has 0 income tax. You win.
Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#7> Meanwhile in Bend, a one-bedroom will set you back about $1,100 Funny, my 3-bedroom, 1600 sqft, corner lot just north of Houston costs just $1200
Neat! What’s the mountain sports scene like in Houston?
Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#8And now they want to preserve the charm, so it will inevitably become another ultraexpensive place.
It's already the most expensive place to live in Oregon. The atmosphere is a little bit like Aspen (from what I understand, never been to Aspen).
Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#9I've been remote in Oregon since 2011.
It's not all sunshine and rainbows, jokes about the rain aside, mostly due to the fact that many, many bay area companies just don't understand why anyone would want to live anywhere but the bay.
Re: Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
#10I suppose that given the $414K median house price from Zillow and subtracting that from the median house price of say Santa Clara county of $1M (same source) that leaves you $500K to buy a nice airplane to commute with :-).
Joking aside, I really do think that if you could get sufficient bandwidth into a small town at reasonable costs you really could "remote" a lot of jobs from the Bay Area.