[dynimagelv]

Learning from Pinkie n Momx2 cause I think pennel is

[swagger]

Have you considered homeschooling? Las Vegas has a large homeschooling community and there are plenty of resources available, including the public schools, for individual courses or extracurricular activities. If it's something you've thought about, this is a good place to do it.

BTW, I have friends in Culpeper. Beautiful country out there - moving here will be quite a change in scenery.

[MomMom]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

Learning from Pinkie n Momx2 cause I think pennel is

Well, everyone has a story to tell about Las Vegas dyni...I've learned to
a lot

[dynimagelv]

this may be the single greatest addition to CD

[Daddys///M3]

Originally Posted by pennel

No way!!! Vegas is no place to raise kids. And it has gone away from the family friendly vegas it tried to be for a few years and back to the dirty, sexy, filthy,
drug indused city it always was. There is nothing for kids to do there but get in
trouble and be taken advantage of. That city will tear your marriage apart, your friend ships apart. It is a tuff city to make it in, and you have to know people to get
a good job there.
So please think twice about moving there.

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Pretty sure the OP asked only for opinions from people that live in Vegas with children or those that have raised children in Vegas, not those whose opinions are nothing more than assumptions based on TV shows and movies.

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

wife n I were gonna raise kids but we couldnt find enough buyers to make it profitable



seriously.....we are rasing 17 yr old g'son and 14 yr old g'daughter.....no differant here then anywhere else....IF you keep on top of them....if you let em go uncontrolled.....well......


b.t.w. will sell either one or as a set cheap

dyn...did you raise your child(ren) in LV...or in NJ?

[dynimagelv]

ACTUALLY.....I never had any kids.....these are wifes g'kids.....but mine by assimilation.....I feel sorry for them, as a result.....my only frame of reference for raising kids was the way I was raised in 1955 or so.....so that's the way we do it.....[with the exception of cellphones and computers]......and they don't have to walk 2 miles to school in the snow uphill both ways......

UNFORTUNATELY they seem to be learning "smartassisims" [I don't know where from] Other then that they are A-B students, don't carry guns, don't turn tricks or strip....and we know where they are 24 hours a day and with whom. I"llnow

[Chest Rockwell]

Without being overtly negative, I want to pinpoint exactly why I would rather not raise my children in LV and partly why I chose to move away. I moved to Vegas when I was 15 and lived there until a few months ago - a total of about 16 years. It was only when I had a daughter that I really started thinking about the pros and cons of raising a family in Las Vegas. I spent many years working for Pure Management Group and in and out of many of the nightclubs and hotspots, so my opinions may be skewed by my heavy involvement day to day with the Strip.

While outside the Strip, Las Vegas may feel like any other suburban city, but the Strip culture seeps into our lives in ways that we may not even be totally conscious of. Las Vegas is just a little bit more image conscious, sexed up, and fast living than other places. That's what makes it Vegas and why millions of people visit every month. The challenge for those who raise their kids in Las Vegas is to remind them constantly that what happens on the Strip for those visiting is a holiday fantasy, but if you live here, it is your everyday reality.

I have no doubt that good parents can raise great kids in Las Vegas, but the OP should be conscious that the city needs an army of cocktail waitresses, strippers and call girls to keep itself running. It's a glitzy, lucrative, but dangerous world that many of our daughters enter into every day. I just felt I'd have a better chance to make sure my daughter would get by on her intellect and hard work if I raised her outside of Las Vegas.

Even if our children are boys, there is still a big difference between Las Vegas and other places. The casino economy creates thousands of decent, but not great paying jobs that require little or no education. It's common for kids in high school to be apathetic about education knowing that they can fall back on a casino job and still make a decent living. I think the state's funding (or lack thereof) of education reflects this apathy. It takes parental emphasis on education to combat this.

I think it's possible to raise children well in Las Vegas, but there are obstacles that are unique to this city that have to be recognized.

[DesertDog]

ewoodwor
The post from Chest Rockwell is very accurate. I moved to Vegas in 1989 and it was a great place to live. Sadly that has changed and the Vegas that used to be is no more. We left last year because of our children. The Summerlin area is great as is areas of Henderson(Green Valley). We decided to leave in spite of great jobs,good friends and the 24 hour lifestyle which is hard to beat.
We watched Meth destroy families and crime go crazy. The air quality went in the toilet and traffic is like California's. There are great teachers in Vegas but overall the schools leave a lot to be desired. There's pluses and minuses to any city but in Vegas the negatives overcame the positives in our opinion. I'll always love Las Vegas and miss what it used to be.

[olecapt]

I have not raised children in Las Vegas...I have however raised three daughters and a stray daughter brought home by one of the others at sixteen. I also played the male role in a home loaded at all times with females, friends, strays, whatever. Place was a sorority house.

I started in upstate NY and migrated to CA. Back to NY. Back to CA.

During much of this time I ran large engineering activities and moved hundreds of folk between the two sites and others.

I am quite convinced that the US suburb is simply repeated from one city to the next. Las Vegas is no exception.

There are some significant differences. When you get a whole lot of rich people you get a whole lot better school system Works everytime. Try Palo Verde outside Los Anglese, or Irvine in OC, or Palo Alto in Palo Alto.

And in the SW you have the libertarian cheapskates who try to run schools on the cheap. But that is not just Las Vegas or Nevada. It is the whole SW area. Only CA spends at rational levels on schools. Only Utah gets away with little or no damage probably do to their somewhat structured socio system.

Note that the damage done is primarily to the low end schools. The Summerlins and GVs get taken care of. It is the bottom schools that take the hit. That get the new teachers and the permanent substitutes.

But the Summerlins and Green Valleys pretty much have there exact equivalents in Rochester or Milwaukee or DC or Chicago.

One of my tasks used to be to convince mid-westerners that you could live in the incredible cesspool known as Los Angeles. There was strong belief that all children went to hell...turned into hookers and drug addicts as soon as they set foot in LA. That they would be shot dead at the school bus stop within days of arrival. It never occured to anyone that in fact Rochester is much more violent than an Orange County suburb and likely has a worse drug problem. Everybody knew how bad LA was.

I think the Vegas problem is the same. This view that which city makes a difference to the child simply lacks any real truth. Sure there are the exotics...but do your children not basically associate with people like you? Hell a couple of the people I suspect may be exotics teach mostly. Do they go on the exotic list or the teacher list?

I would suspect working in the core of it may well bend your view. I would also be suspicious of people who make their living writing ad copy...has to destroy the conscience. But does it really get to the kids?

If your neighbors are Doctors and Lawyers and Teachers and Accountants your children will likely grow up tending towards those professions. If your children grow up with maids and mechanics and laborers and exotics they will likely tend toward those fields. And that is quite independent of whether it is Vegas or Rochester or Dallas or Los Angeles. And if you live in the professional set a matre de from Pure won't cause the neighborhood children to lose perspective. May add a little spice in fact.

So strive for the better nieghborhoods but you really don't need to leave town. And mostly it will do little good. It is the family and the surround that makes the difference. Not the city.