Another person lives in Reno also checking in. I grew up in the Silicon Valley though and recently moved here about 6 months ago. It indeed is really fun. Lot's

Another person lives in Reno also checking in. I grew up in the Silicon Valley though and recently moved here about 6 months ago. It indeed is really fun. Lot's of outdoorsy stuff to do (tons of unowned land where you can shoot guns and drive ATVs and stuff). The night life is crazy good too. But yeah... it's fun in a kind of depressing way. There's a huge unemployment/underemployment problem here. My dad who was a crazy good broker in the valley is unemployed still after 3 years of living here. My mom who was a courier in the valley is now organizing greeting cards at grocery stores making minimum wage. They'd basically be screwed if they didn't have any savings and if I wasn't able to do remote work. There's also a TON of people who just fell off the face of the earth that moved here. I've never met so many meth heads, heroin addicts and general burnouts in a higher concentration anywhere else. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places though. Reno is definitely is an cool place to live. But I don't think I would want to be here for longer than a year... that's just me though. I'm another one of those "California refugees", I guess. So maybe I shouldn't be talking.