Lower prices and the great outdoors are convincing some of the tech community to head to Bend, Oregon.
While most people jump in their cars or walk to public transportation to get to work, Darren Pleasance starts up his plane.
Allowing him to remain a 10-hour drive — or a 70-minute commercial flight — away from Mountain View, California, wouldn't be that big of a deal, he contended. Plus, the licensed pilot promised he would check in often, whether it was virtually or flying himself in. Google agreed – and the situation has worked ever since.
Dino Vendetti, managing partner of Bend-based early stage venture capital fund Seven Peaks Ventures, said he gets a call or an email every week from Silicon Valley about someone moving or wanting to move to Bend and connect with the tech community there. He had lived in Seattle for almost 20 years, and knew the Californians would not move to a rainy city. Because of Bend's location near the Deschutes River sheltered by the Cascade Mountains, it doesn't get that much rain. The city claims the average yearly precipitation is less than 12 inches, and it gets 158 clear days a year with 105 more that are mostly sunny, the remainder with"substantial sunshine.
"Over half my employees were renters, not homeowners , which seems pretty ludicrous considering we work in the tech industry and we're one of the highest-paying industries, if not the highest-paying industry in the world," Vetras said. "You can actually be on a mountain skiing in half the time it would take you to just drive to Tahoe," Vetras said.
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