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QuinSnydersHair said:
What are you qualified for? I mean, other than running Tesla's interoffice football pool?
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Right now I run a whitewater rafting business in Jackson hole, so experience in managing small business (18 employees seasonally). This job is a bit of everything from sales, customer service, training, hr, accounting, construction, etc.

My other experience is in sales, construction, and international commerce. I speak mandarin too.
 
I second what Log has said about the Reno Tahoe area. When I was younger I lived in a van and bummed my way around. It was great because I think you get a better feel for a place than you do if you spend 2-3 days in a hotel there. I ended up spending more time in reno than I ever thought I would. I totally dug the place. other towns I really liked out here were San Luis Obispo California, Santa Cruz California, and Medford Oregon.

TBh Reno had a quality that lacked pretension. It felt like a place where you could just be rather than a place that you thought you should be. I still have a few nick Knacks that I bought at a little place around the corner from the casinos. (Seriously the only place where a guy in a van goes shopping in an antique store). The river walk is pretty cool and kinda reminded me of Provo Canyon(not quite but almost). If I was to move I'd put Reno above San Francisco. I could live in Renpo but I only want to visit San Fransisco from time to time.
 
I'm just glad to have you back, Log. A true Jazzfanz allstar.
 
Welcome back Log.

I was thinking of you when I drove through Reno again a couple of weeks ago. Next time I guess I'll go look at that river walk.

Some good things about Reno. . . .you got all the government Schills segregated and living down in CC. The rich folks off in the woods somewhere, either Tahoe or in the own private little "Ponderosas". The river is bigger than a lot of the Utah creeks, like the Jordan. Looks about like the Virgin River up in Zion's though. I sorta doubt anyone would make it doing a business for tourists on it???? I guess I'll have to actually do that river walk.

I had guessed you were still Navy still doing logistics at the Naval Air Station out in Fallon. Fallon is a really nice farm area. Had me thinking of buying land there. . . . .

b-line, I think the boating business in Jackson has gotta be the best in the world, in terms of just being a jet-set destination. And the river just looks "fun", not life-challenging.
 
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heyhey said:
I second what Log has said about the Reno Tahoe area. When I was younger I lived in a van and bummed my way around. It was great because I think you get a better feel for a place than you do if you spend 2-3 days in a hotel there. I ended up spending more time in reno than I ever thought I would. I totally dug the place. other towns I really liked out here were San Luis Obispo California, Santa Cruz California, and Medford Oregon.

TBh Reno had a quality that lacked pretension. It felt like a place where you could just be rather than a place that you thought you should be. I still have a few nick Knacks that I bought at a little place around the corner from the casinos. (Seriously the only place where a guy in a van goes shopping in an antique store). The river walk is pretty cool and kinda reminded me of Provo Canyon(not quite but almost). If I was to move I'd put Reno above San Francisco. I could live in Renpo but I only want to visit San Fransisco from time to time.
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Spot on comparing Reno to SF. We absolutely love to visit the San Fran area. So much to do, so much to see. Even met Adam Savage when we ferreted out the "real" location they film Mythbusters, which was cool. But I could never live there. Being able to trundle down there for a 3 day weekend, and then come back home to Sparks, is the best.


Oh yeah I saw something else this morning that made me think of the safety factor of living in this area. I stopped at a 7-11 on my way to work in Sparks, in what is probably one of the worst parts of town, either Reno or Sparks, and saw no fewer than 6 vehicles idling to stay warm while the drivers were inside. This is within a stone's throw of the freeway on-ramp. No one worries about someone jacking their car in Reno. **** like that just doesn't happen here. Pretty cool if you ask me.
 
babe said:
Welcome back Log.

I was thinking of you when I drove through Rena again a couple of weeks ago. Next time I guess I'll go look at that river walk.

Some good things about Reno. . . .you got all the government Schills segregated and living down in CC. The rich folks off in the woods somewhere, either Tahoe or in the own private little "Ponderosas". The river is bigger than a lot of the Utah creeks, like the Jordan. Looks about like the Virgin River up in Zion's though. I sorta doubt anyone would make it doing a business for tourists on it???? I guess I'll have to actually do that river walk.

I had guessed you were still Navy still doing logistics at the Naval Air Station out in Fallon. Fallon is a really nice farm area. Had me thinking of buying land there. . . . .

b-line, I think the boating business in Jackson has gotta be the best in the world, in terms of just being a jet-set destination. And the river just looks "fun", not life-challenging.
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Hit me up the next time you drive through, and my wife and I will show you around a bit.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Hi.

And yeah, Scheel's and that whole shopping area is pretty damn cool. The ferris wheel is pretty fun too.

I think this is a great area to live. The worst parts of town are just kind of shady, nothing I wouldn't allow my 13 year old daughter and my wife walk home from at 10:00 pm at night. The worst parts of town are actually the trailer park areas in Sun Valley, just north of Reno, where word has it there is the world's largest trailer home area. There is some redneck violence up there, but really even then nothing much to worry about unless you are trying to steal someone's chickens (no joke...shootings over chickens have happened more than once...lol). For the most part it is nice. It is quiet with a small-town feel with all the big-town amenities. And Tahoe just a half hour away, the bay area 4 hours away, and a straight shot to pretty much anywhere else with I80 right there it is well-connected, which is why so many of the bigger companies have distribution centers here.

We really love it here other than neither of us have family in the area. We would much rather be in SLC or the area for that reason. Otherwise, with nothing to tie us down, we would choose this area to live in.

The climate is great, very moderate. It gets much colder in Utah in the winter and much hotter in Utah in the summer. We have like 2 seasons...summer and winter. It hits summer around April 1 and stays summer-like all the way until Thanksgiving often. We had temps as high as 70 just a few weeks ago and just today got our first snow, which may be the only snow we see that sticks more than a few days. But if you want snow, Tahoe is right over the hill with some great skiing, and even tubing and snowshoeing. In the summer we will see mid-90's for a week or 2, maybe even crack 100 for a couple of days, but normally that is about it. But it does hit the mid-high 80's and can stay there from June through mid-October, just cooling off a bit in the mornings.

Another really nice thing here is downtown, where the "Biggest Little City" signs are (yes there are 2 =). The downtown is really a great place to spend time. The truckee runs right through downtown and they have created a very cool river-walk area for a few miles, with lots of restaurants and shops right on the river. We spend a lot of time there with our family in the summer, and it is even nice for a winter stroll when we get snow. It is beautifully-kept. It is also nice to just walk around campus at UNR, which as a very nice campus with interesting restaurants and lots of activities for the community. Generally it is a very clean city, for the most part.

Schools and such are decent. Nothing earth-shattering, but their worst school in this area is a far cry from some of the "worst" schools we encountered in Ogden, SLC, Portland, Boise, and L.A.

Jobs are a bit tougher, but that is going to improve immensely in the next 60 months. Tesla is building their "gigafactory" just over the hill from the eBay facility where I work. It is going to bring directly over 6,000 jobs, and indirectly as many as 16,000. Much needed for our area, which has had a hard time climbing out of the recession. Here is a short op-ed piece about it I found interesting.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michel...ings-reno-can-expect-from-teslas-gigafactory/

The worst things about living here, other than being quite a long way from family, is that the housing market is a bit jacked. A lot of people lost homes to foreclosures, so they jacked their credit up. Then the home owners and banks even just held onto the property, trying to rent. At first it was nice, rent was fairly low due to competition, but recently it has flipped and now rentals are going for some pretty high prices, kind of because the owners realize people are stuck and have to rent, so why not charge more. Forced demand + limited supply = higher prices. We pay $1340, which is fairly cheap. We have seen homes smaller than our going for $1600-$2000 and renting at those prices. Crazy. But the home-buying market is pretty good on the flip side of that.

There, probably more info than you wanted or needed.
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So how's the construction industry? Particularly electrician?
 
So Reno is not really a big version of Wendover? That's the mental image I've built up of it.
 
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LogGrad98 said:
Thanks for all the kind words in this thread. I had a pretty scary time of it for about 3-4 weeks there. Almost lost my kidney and found out what it is like to be hooked up to a dialysis machine. Things seems to be on the mend after a few weeks dealing with sepsis. Scary days. I tell you, I would take any 4-week period from my cancer treatment over those 4 weeks dealing with kidney issues in a heartbeat. I ended up having 2 procedures to remove 2 stones, breaking one of them into pieces. It was a total of 6 pieces or whole stones they removed or I passed during that time. Kidney pain SUCKS.

If you have never had a kidney stone, here is how you can imagine it (for the guys at least....my wife just says it is worse than childbirth and that works for most of the ladies to understand).

Imagine the worst time you ever got hit hard in the balls. I mean a really good one, like getting kicked directly or falling onto something. Take the peak of that pain, where you felt like puking and all you could do was squirm around on the ground, multiply it by about 10, stick it in your lower back and have it radiate out into your groin, back, side, everywhere. And then make it never go away, and never decrease, no matter what you do. In fact it just gets worse and worse until you get the morphine. You can't sit still, you feel like puking and often do, and you make weird noises that scare small children. Different than the ones trout makes. Well maybe pretty close.
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Man, I hope I never go through that.
 
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