I'm from south lake tahoe. While tahoe is a universe different than Reno I've spent enough time there to have some insight.
Things about Reno to avoid: Gambling away your paycheck, doing meth, getting your shit stolen by tweakers. Pretty shitty public schools. Fairly car dependent. Not a lot of what you'd call culture.
Things to like about Reno: No income tax, relatively affordable housing, MASSIVE amount of outdoor activities not that far away. SOME economic diversity. Sunshine almost year round (but snow in winter of course), a decent university if you care about that. Pretty laid back people.
In terms of working at the Tesla factory, I'd just have a backup plan. Musk is great at getting people to give him money, and those cars are cool. But that company, I don't understand how they keep the lights on, haha! Good news is you can always hit up a dealer school and get a decent paying gig throwing cards at drunks.