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Bend, OR, is becoming a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive

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I 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.

I'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.

> many bay area companies just don't understand why anyone would want to live anywhere but the bay

What do you mean? Is this a way of saying "many Bay Area companies don't hire remote workers"?

It's more than just not hiring remote workers. Some employers are actually surprised that one might not want to relocate to the bay.

s/surprised/angry/

People act like you're denigrating their entire way of life if you won't sell your house and move to the bay in return for their uninspiring below-market salary and the chance to "disrupt" something. They get especially upset when I say that the cost of living differential would need to be 50%+ of total comp, plus around $30k in moving expenses.

You can look at the weekly/monthly HN job posts to validate your comment, as quite a number aren't remote friendly.

This 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.

Some people are perfectly willing to limit employment options to remote-friendly.

As a consultant who used to fly every week for three years, and hated it, I cannot believe people will voluntarily do this. My consulting travel almost killed my marriage.

Click-Bait article - all it says is how some people occasionally Fly in and work more of the time by tele-commuting from computer. Nothing new here.

> 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.

Neat! What’s the mountain sports scene like in Houston?

People are downvoting this but honestly, its a huge consideration. I pay a huge premium to live in Boulder,CO and have often thought how awesome it'd be to move to Texas, save a ton of cash.. except yeah, if you're not content just doing "city things", it's frankly a wasteland.

It really is a drawback. But I somehow get by spending two weeks in tahoe yearly.

The headline is clickbait. It profiles one GOOG sales executive who travels a lot. It also describes a population of people who’ve decided (or expressed interest in) moving to Bend, where they will work, or work remotely.

Summary: some people are moving to Bend, OR. Also, housing there is cheaper than Silicon Valley.

There are several of us up at E45 (Pine Mountain Lake Airport) in Groveland, CA that fly/commute to Bay Area companies. Folks in Auburn do it too. And places outside Sacramento. It's more common than you might think.

Yep, I used to live at Swansboro Country Airport (01CL) out of Placerville and know more than a few people who fly to the Bay Area.

And 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).

I'm a remote software dev in Bend. I've been here about a year after living in Portland for 9 years. Bend is definitely not as expensive as Portland. We can afford a lot more for our money here.

Sunriver and other tourist destinations in the area are expensive; living in Bend itself is not.

You obviously haven't priced living in Bend or you are used to paying bay area rates.

I think there are other places to work besides the Bay Area.

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