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Bend, Oregon. Direct flights to and from West Coast hubs. Active startup scene. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KxhA2jopebQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=KxhA2jopebQ
by ArtDev 11y ago
Bend, Oregon. Direct flights to and from West Coast hubs. Active startup scene. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KxhA2jopebQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=KxhA2jopebQ
Bend has already been "discovered". However, there is still affordable housing and you can't beat the weather, beer scene and the outdoors here.
If you want to check it out, you can stay in my awesome big house when we are traveling: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/7497695 https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/7497695
- kat 11y agoI have to agree. The work/life balance here is amazing. There are start-ups and bigger enterprise-sized tech companies (Sony!) There is also a decent amount of tech jobs available right now.
- davidw 11y agoWe moved to Bend last July and are very happy so far! Hopefully, Bend will get right some of the things that SV and SF get so very, very wrong in terms of NIMBYism that is causing people to move away.
- solipsism 11y agoSince this is getting a bit of a response... anyone in Bend living there with small kids? We are in Oregon and are attracted to Bend, but the fact that it's so isolated (far from major hospital systems, for example, which we unfortunately have to take advantage of more than we'd like) makes us hesitant. Also, we bounce between museums and acquariums and childrens' museums on the coast, Portland, Salem, Eugene, etc, quite a lot, and out in Bend your options seem much more limited. I get that the great outdoors is really the thing to do in Bend, but our children are very small (1 and 3), and we want to be outdoorsie but have to work our way up to it. So I don't know how Bend would work for us. I'm curious how others deal with small kids there.
- davidw 11y agoOurs are a few years older than that, but you can certainly do outdoor activities with kids, or trade off so one person goes to do something while the other watches the kids. We used to take our daughter rodelling (sledding) in Austria, for instance. We had lots of fun! It's certainly more isolated - for some people, that's a big negative. I'm mostly ok with it. Being constantly rained on and seeing gray skies is a far larger drawback.
- jonah 11y agoI have a friend in tech with small kids in Bend. Email me and I'll connect you two if you'd like.
- shostack 11y agoI think I totally just bought your chandelier. Does it give really good light for the dining room?