[olecapt]

Originally Posted by pgans

Hi,
I can empathize with Kelly. My wife and I are retired and in our 60's.
All my life, I have planned on retiring to the Gulf Coast of Florida, probably Venice.

But lately an inner ear problem has sent me looking at less humid areas.
We just returned from house hunting in Henderson, NV and we liked the Sun City area very much.

But it all seemed so busy there. Maybe it's because I am more familiar with Florida, but I am struggling with the final decision. To suffer with familiar humidity or be adventurous and live in a desert.

The wife wants to go to Henderson, sooooo, I guess the decision has already been made, but I could use some validation.

Thanks

Try Sun City Summmerlin. Much quieter. Less traffic...more out of the way.

Otherwise very simlar though a few years older.

[bird83]

i see everyone loves Henderson what about Clark county i moving to Vegas in a couple of months is it hard like people telling me?

[ScoopLV]

Hard how?

Hard to find a job? Depends on what you do and whether you might need to pass a background check to do it. If you have come here to find construction work, then good luck. If you have a military or police background and looking for security work, then it's not particularly hard. If you're a chef, it's fairly easy. If you can teach English as a second language or you're a physician, nurse or medical technician, you'll have a job tomorrow. It all depends.

Hard to find a place to live? No.

Hard to deal with the day-to-day things like traffic and shopping? Not really. This city isn't nearly as bad as other places I have lived or visited.

The cost of living here is quite low compared to much of the United States. Employment can be a real problem. Or it can be very easy. What kind of work are you looking for?

Then there's the intangibles. Either you can handle our summers or you can't. Either you like living in a big city with all of its problems and advantages or you don't. That's basically up to you. I don't like living here. But many people do.

[Sloppy_seconds]

Definitely can not beat the cost of living here.

[BBMW]

Funny how you (and lots of other people) consider this to be a "big city." It really isn't urban in the classic sense of the word. It's one enormous suburban sprawl. If you've been to any southestern suburb, Vegas is exactly the same thing (except with slot machines/video poker wherever you go.)

If the predominant housing type is detached single family houses, it isn't really "city".

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Hard how?

Hard to find a job? Depends on what you do and whether you might need to pass a background check to do it. If you have come here to find construction work, then good luck. If you have a military or police background and looking for security work, then it's not particularly hard. If you're a chef, it's fairly easy. If you can teach English as a second language or you're a physician, nurse or medical technician, you'll have a job tomorrow. It all depends.

Hard to find a place to live? No.

Hard to deal with the day-to-day things like traffic and shopping? Not really. This city isn't nearly as bad as other places I have lived or visited.

The cost of living here is quite low compared to much of the United States. Employment can be a real problem. Or it can be very easy. What kind of work are you looking for?

Then there's the intangibles. Either you can handle our summers or you can't. Either you like living in a big city with all of its problems and advantages or you don't. That's basically up to you. I don't like living here. But many people do.

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by BBMW

Funny how you (and lots of other people) consider this to be a "big city." It really isn't urban in the classic sense of the word. It's one enormous suburban sprawl. If you've been to any southestern suburb, Vegas is exactly the same thing (except with slot machines/video poker wherever you go.)

If the predominant housing type is detached single family houses, it isn't really "city".

Sorry but I suspect the prevalent housing unit in NYC is in fact single family. Or better not high rise.

While that may predominate in Manhattan it is a minority in the other four boroughs and it contains only 1.6 million of the 8 or so million people.

Throw in the commuter counties and it is a run away for single family homes.

[BBMW]

^
Not so much. The predominent form is midrise apartments (though a lot of these would be considered high rise in Vegas.) There are a lot of single family homes out in the boroughs, but given the differences in density between, there are a lot more people in apartments than SF houses. Also, there are a lot of attached houses, which I specifcally didn't include in the suburban type.

And I also didn't include the suburbs, which are predominently SF detached houses.

[lvoc]

I did find one statistic. Half of the housing units in NYC are apartments.

So the apartment does not dominate the city any more the metro area.