[chneu]

Disagree. Hillsboro has plenty of businesses from ex-intel employees.

Just off the top of my head I can think of a dozen or so.

They're just not in tech for the most part. I can think of 2 breweries, a standardization company, two machine shops. And those are just within a mile or so of my house.

I think a lot of folks work at Intel in order to get out of tech. That's basically what I'm doing, lol. Work enough to save and get out of tech.

Tech is also expensive to start up in. So it makes sense that a lot of the intel-driven businesses would be non-tech.

[ngokevin]

Ah, I meant tech startups. Starting a brewery and machine shop is exactly what I expect from the PDX crowd. I think you echo what I said, people working in PDX tech are there for the salary and coast so they can focus on their own lives outside of work, which is perfectly fine. But not conducive to a tech startup environment