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Google Building Tech Center Near Portland
jdray writes "It seems that everyone's favorite search powerhouse, Google, is building a tech center in The Dalles, Oregon. About 45 minutes by interstate highway from Portland, The Dalles is a small, economically depressed city near the world-famous Columbia River Gorge. The $60,000 average annual salary of Google employees is about double the average for Wasco county. With all the outdoor sports (windsurfing, hiking, mountain biking, skiing) in the area, sports-minded geeks should be flocking to apply for a job at the new facility."
sports-minded geeks
Who what now?
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Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
Is that some sort of oxymoron? True geeks play video games most of the time.
Did i spy geeks and sports in the same sentence?
Not that we windows users don't enjoy living dangerously.
Hey, ssh, quiet down, they're "searching".
Locals wonder about "internet" phenomenon.
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
Is anyone else noticing an interesting trend here as far as company location goes? Though Oregon already has a ton of high-tech companies(including Intel R&D), this is the second major Microsoft competitor to set up shop there in a year(the first being the OSDL). As an Oregonian I certainly welcome this, though I'm starting to wonder if I should get a bomb shelter should MS want to obliterate the competition in more ways than one.
If you drive 120 miles an hour, maybe. It's at mile marker 82 or so. Do the math.
Okay...
82 miles take 41 minutes to make at 120mph. Driving at 109mph will get you there in 45 minutes.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
You have to float your wagon down the Columbia and avoid the rocks.
Since we're being pedantic...that only gets you to the exit. You still need a few minutes to get to the actual location. :-)
**AVERAGE** That means that 1/2 of their people make more than $60,000/year. I'm sure they have receptionists and janitors making way less.
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CmdrTaco has cholera.
Found 32 pounds of food.
You broke a wagon tongue.
Ah, those were the good old days.
You are not the customer.
> Putting lots of people in the Dalles makes sense. Putting lots of computer doesn't.
It's good to know what we value most.
My thoughts, exactly
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Indeed. Some geeks nurse a desire, others desire a nurse.... everyone has their own wants and desires!
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Why do they have to build a center so close to that cursed state of Washington, where you know who develops you know what.
Come to California! We got both!
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While I guess what you're saying is true, it has always puzzled me. Then again, I left a very rural area to go to a school twice the size of my hometown (2500 students). I guess the environment breeds different sets of interests. I for one don't find wandering aimlessly around downtown at all interesting. The theatres here are all owned by the same poorly operated company (Regal), you have pay most stores just to use their parking lots, and there's no place to mountain bike. The only real advantage I've experienced so far is that Portland has a pretty well organized adult rec soccer league. Well, plus I get a pretty good laugh from city people joking about cow tipping. What a bunch of uneducated concrete-dwellers.