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Old 03-11-2013, 06:02 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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I must be getting old (and maybe too conservative) and no offense to the OP.....but what the heck is "crunchy"?

LOL, never heard that term before & I lived in the PNW for 8 years.
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Old 03-11-2013, 06:06 AM
 
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I must be getting old (and maybe too conservative) and no offense to the OP.....but what the heck is "crunchy"?

LOL, never heard that term before & I lived in the PNW for 8 years.
Don't worry I'm young and I've never heard that term either.
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Old 03-11-2013, 06:13 AM
 
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Default Crunchy area?

You mean, people accidentally drop peanut shells down on their street and you want to step on them, for the crunchy feel?
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Old 03-11-2013, 06:48 AM
 
Location: Henderson, NV
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I must be getting old (and maybe too conservative) and no offense to the OP.....but what the heck is "crunchy"?

LOL, never heard that term before & I lived in the PNW for 8 years.
As in "Earthy Crunchy".. hippie.. liberal..
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Old 03-11-2013, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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As in "Earthy Crunchy".. hippie.. liberal..
Ah , that listening to John Denver eating your Grape Nuts crunchy.

I don't think Vegas is very hippie, thats Berkeley,CA up to Seattle.
Vegas IS fairly liberal in some areas & events...and very conservative in others.
This is not California...or Rhode Island. Nevada is, what Nevada is. Every area is unique and has its own challenges and advantages, its own culture, politics & its own way of life. To expect somewhere 3000+ miles away to be similar to where your at now more then likely wont happen. If you can adapt to Las Vegas, chances are you will probably love it here; if you don't adapt, you'll hate it here.
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Old 03-11-2013, 08:03 AM
 
Location: Kingman AZ
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Ah , that listening to John Denver eating your Grape Nuts crunchy.

I don't think Vegas is very hippie, thats Berkeley,CA up to Seattle.
Vegas IS fairly liberal in some areas & events...and very conservative in others.
This is not California...or Rhode Island. Nevada is, what Nevada is. Every area is unique and has its own challenges and advantages, its own culture, politics & its own way of life. To expect somewhere 3000+ miles away to be similar to where your at now more then likely wont happen. If you can adapt to Las Vegas, chances are you will probably love it here; if you don't adapt, you'll hate it here.
It has a crunchy side when someone steps off the curb......
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Old 03-11-2013, 09:17 AM
 
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As others have said, if you want a progressive, liberal, hippie, greenie kind of place, Vegas isn't it. It's not as outright conservative as it used to be, but what liberalism there is tends to be union-centric class warrior based., not the new age, hippie-dippie kind.
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Old 03-11-2013, 09:18 AM
 
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I must be getting old (and maybe too conservative) and no offense to the OP.....but what the heck is "crunchy"?

LOL, never heard that term before & I lived in the PNW for 8 years.
I hadn't either....until this issue and that very term were discussed on this forum just a couple of months ago in this thread:

https://www.city-data.com/forum/las-v...ty-minded.html

Here are a couple of posts from that thread:

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I suppose Vegas/Clark County is actually quite green with wind farms (outside the city), Boulder Dam right outside town, Solar research, many buildings have skylights to take advantage of the daily sunlight, many modern (energy efficient) homes, many homes with Xeriscape landscaping, fantastic traffic infrastructure, the most advanced water reclamation systems in the country, recycling on the rise and Apex land fill just north of town rather than trucking all the garbage hundreds of miles out of state like many cities. We also have true diversity.

The city and it's people do practice many green practices but they don't run around celebrating it and throwing it in everyone's face.

We do lack the the arts and crunchy lifestyle though.

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Had to google "crunchy lifestyle". Now I know what a "granola woman" is. I thought I was up on my hip terms and modern slang.

I guess not.
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:08 PM
 
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Excellent post Coco, really great info for us newbies to the area (moving to Vegas in April) and can't wait...

Cheers!

Jessey
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Old 03-13-2013, 12:46 AM
 
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Beth, I can pretty much tell you that if the environment is important to you, and you are not ready to embrace a vibrant desert lifestyle, you should stay in Rhode Island. There are not really any funky unique places, just "Whole Foods", about as "Crunchy" as you are gonna get.

Having been to Rhode Island in the summer, spring, and fall, Las Vegas is like being in Hades. I felt like I really could not wrap my head around why people even move to Vegas.

But, if you love your boyfriend, where you live should not be an issue. If it is...I suggest you part ways.

Note: lived in Vegas on and off for 25 years. Don't really like it there.
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