[pommysmommy]

You don't have to buy a plane ticket to enjoy all that Las Vegas has to offer. We fly to Vegas 4 times a year. We gamble some but we mostly come for the variety of restaurants and the shows/concerts. What's not to love about living in Las Vegas?

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by pommysmommy

You don't have to buy a plane ticket to enjoy all that Las Vegas has to offer. We fly to Vegas 4 times a year. We gamble some but we mostly come for the variety of restaurants and the shows/concerts. What's not to love about living in Las Vegas?

Is that a question?

[pommysmommy]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

Is that a question?

Yes. As a retiree in Las Vegas, what are the negatives?

[horseplayer]

car insurance is unreasonably high.

[dynimagelv]

it's REALLY hard to buy a snow shovel

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

it's REALLY hard to buy a snow shovel

I have one. It actually was well used at one point. About 35 years old.


I might part with it for a suitable fee though I do have a certain emotional attachment to it.

[pommysmommy]

Haven't seen anything yet that would make me rethink Las Vegas as our retirement home.

[Buzz123]

There aren't a lot of negatives and that's why so many people move here, even now in the down economy. The biggest negative is the weather. It's too hot in the summer, but most people get used to it and don't mind it that much. The heat is different now than it was in as short a time as 20 years ago. Nobody can explain it although everybody has an opinion. It has grown too big IMO, but then that growth has brought us innumerable conveniences and good things we didn't have before. For instance, and believe it or not, Las Vegas was not a great place for restaurants until we hit about the one million population mark. Now we have so many my complaint is I can't try them all. The air quality is not good and never was because it wouldn't be good in the desert even if no one lived here. Too much stuff in the soil that gets sucked up into the air by the wind. BTW: there is a lot of wind. So much so that when it stops blowing everyone falls down. Buh dump dum. Las Vegas is more positive than negative, so everybody who visits here frequently will sooner or later want to live here. People can pick it apart if they want, but anyplace they choose to compare it to will fall short.

[pommysmommy]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

There aren't a lot of negatives and that's why so many people move here, even now in the down economy. The biggest negative is the weather. It's too hot in the summer, but most people get used to it and don't mind it that much. The heat is different now than it was in as short a time as 20 years ago. Nobody can explain it although everybody has an opinion. It has grown too big IMO, but then that growth has brought us innumerable conveniences and good things we didn't have before. For instance, and believe it or not, Las Vegas was not a great place for restaurants until we hit about the one million population mark. Now we have so many my complaint is I can't try them all. The air quality is not good and never was because it wouldn't be good in the desert even if no one lived here. Too much stuff in the soil that gets sucked up into the air by the wind. BTW: there is a lot of wind. So much so that when it stops blowing everyone falls down. Buh dump dum. Las Vegas is more positive than negative, so everybody who visits here frequently will sooner or later want to live here. People can pick it apart if they want, but anyplace they choose to compare it to will fall short.

You could have just described El Paso where we currently reside. I do have to admit that Vegas is hotter but it is mostly a dry, desert heat like El Paso.

[Buzz123]

Not meaning to knock Texas, although I'll tell you up front after living there for three years I mostly hate it, but any resemblance between Las Vegas and any city in Texas is purely coincidental. The obvious thing is this is the entertainment capital of the world and not even Dallas or Houston have anything like we've got. Maybe not so obvious until you get here (or there from here) is Las Vegas is much dryer, therefore more comfortable, humidity-wise. Also, while Texas has more of the great outdoors than any other state but Alaska, it is mostly fenced in private property, where 83% of ours is open range, BLM land. And anywhere you are in Texas, even considering Big Bend country, you are a long ways from real mountains, or anything like the National Parks near here, or great places to go like we find in southern California. Texans are sort of isolated from the rest of the world IMO. Not so in Nevada unless maybe you live in Ely, or Tonopah...or God help you, Round Mountain.

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