I am in Portland now and have been for the last nine years. I would say that pdx is a great place for startups if you are a hardware company and/or a venture re

I am in Portland now and have been for the last nine years. I would say that pdx is a great place for startups if you are a hardware company and/or a venture related to Intel. Other than you will be hard pressed to find qualified SW engineers that are actually can write something else other than drivers. Then there are the occasional VB slackers or .NET potheads that do contract work.