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California may not be a place to retire for you and your particular situation but it is for others who can afford it.
Why would you want to retire in Las Vegas? To hibernate inside the house for the rest of your life? You can’t compare the lifestyle between those two states. In Las Vegas everyone just hibernates inside the house, summers are brutal and have you experienced those desert gusty winds before?
Quality of healthcare and those low class doctors and hospitals should be a major reason never to consider retirement in Las Vegas. Why would you retire in a city with the worst healthcare system in the nation? Don’t you want to be in the area with the top doctors and hospitals when you retire?
Crime is another major reason you should never consider retiring in Las Vegas. Do you follow the news? Every other day there is a shooting on Las Vegas Blvd. Those Casinos are not safe anymore to visit. Robberies or home invasions seem to be a daily occurrence as well. Despite what local media propaganda may say or those manipulated crime statistics crime in Las Vegas is out of control.
Best of luck to you.
There are many who can afford CA but hate the policies and taxes - we can easily live there or anywhere else in the country but have no reason to pay an extra $20K a year to support the leftist agendas of Newsom and the rest. I have a large house on over an acre in CA already but we are leaving for LV.
You are incorrect in almost everything else you posted also - a bunch of rants about what you think is true but is not. I don't know anyone who "hibernates" in LV, (normally) too much to do.
BTW - There are many places in CA where the weather, healthcare and crime are much worse.
Las Vegas has many more positives than negatives. We have raised 3 kids here from elementary and now highschool and college. The cost of living, recreation activities, relatively low taxes, food, entertainment, wide roads, and lots of parks are the main positives. The summer heat(June-September), lack of grass/trees, humidity(dry), high population growth/transiency, and high car registration fees are the negatives.
Las Vegas has many more positives than negatives. We have raised 3 kids here from elementary and now highschool and college. The cost of living, recreation activities, relatively low taxes, food, entertainment, wide roads, and lots of parks are the main positives. The summer heat(June-September), lack of grass/trees, humidity(dry), high population growth/transiency, and high car registration fees are the negatives.
I agree with a lot of what you stated. However, the heat is one of the reasons I choose to
relocate here. I was sick of the East Coast winters, blizzards, and cold temperatures. My other
potential choice was Southern California (pretty much year round 70 degrees). However, when
I compared my quality of life for what I'd spend to live there...Vegas won out hands down.
The house and lot we have here are 4 times bigger than what the same money would buy
in Southern California. We also got a nice bump from the no state income tax which will probably
be useful in paying for the higher car insurance rates.
I think two areas that Las Vegas suffers in are quality of health care and education.
FYI, I don’t live in Las Vegas and never would but have a very good friend who does. She hates it, and is considering moving back to California again.
I hate to be rude but that doesn't make you very qualified to post on this. I have been to several cities and Las Vegas wins the contest. I love the weather here. I go out EVERY day. I love that I don't have to deal with snow and ice. I hate cold winters, it's sunny and cheery here all winter.
Crime is perception. Get off social media and stop watching the news. Their job is to sensationalize. I have lived here over 20 years and have never had my home or auto broken into. (Knock on wood.) Could it happen? Of course, just like any city of this size. Compare the stats and most cities are just about the same.
Healthcare- it's about the same in most places. It's a problem that is bigger than Las Vegas, it's a system issue. I agree that there might be more choices outside of Las Vegas but that would be true of many places. Certainly small towns.
Bottom line, I have moved away several times and I keep coming back. I live here. And I like it.
This debate with Las Vegas VS.... (other places) have been going on this forum for years. I've been on this forum for 13 and it keeps on going. No place is perfect and you have to imagine some people love one place over the other. I found that you really cant please everyone and its pretty much impossible to change their minds. Some people have the money and they can live in Las Vegas part time and live in another state or country part time and they are happy. It all depends on your lifestyle.
This debate with Las Vegas VS.... (other places) have been going on this forum for years. ...
Which causes me to remind our readers of an old saying from the 15th century: "comparisons are odious" which means it's a fool's errand to compare apples to oranges in hopes of arriving at a meaningful, actionable conclusion. Best that can be done is to list the pros and cons of each location, check the ones that are meaningful to you, and add up the score.
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You will find countless threads on this question. I believe the nice parts of Henderson (like Green Valley and Anthem) are very similar to most of Summerlin. We prefer Summerlin because (unless we missed a short cut) it's much closer to the freeway, Downtown Summerlin is much bigger than the District at Green Valley, and for US the drive from the freeway into the nice areas of Henderson like Anthem are just strip mall after strip mall after strip mall. I also didn't find prices to be that much cheaper, if at all, for comparable houses in Henderson v. Summerlin. There is often a difference like view, lot size, location, etc... and thus the people that say "a million dollar house in Henderson is $1.2m in Summerlin for the exact same house" are playing loose with the word "exact" in my looking around. However, I am no expert. I like both Henderson and Summerlin. Oh ya, and if you want to be a little remote the Lake Las Vegas area of Henderson is really nice but is just a bit remote for us. Nothing exactly like LLV in Summerlin.
We’re really not, though. It’s about a 15% premium if not 20% for Summerlin and I couldn’t find any reason there should be a premium. For me, I would have needed a discount - it’s too far away. The freeway is 6 minutes from my house here in Henderson and that’s pretty dang close, airport in 12 minutes no traffic, 15-17 with normal traffic. There’s also an issue - we don’t have traffic in Henderson. Every time my wife or I drive to Summerlin (her way way more than me), it’s a traffic nightmare for some reason. When we looked at houses, one of the (funny you should say it) $1.2 million houses was so overpriced compared to similar offerings in Henderson. No Strip view, tiny lot that makes my small lot look big which is hard to do, and the house looked bigger in the photos. It was nice, but not that kind of money nice. I got a house 300 square feet smaller but with more useable space / better layout and a perfect view for $732K. I just couldn’t figure out the pricing there. It was a huge premium and if they can get it, great, but it’s the opposite of what you’re saying - better houses in Henderson cost less money, so even if it’s not apples to apples it’s like opposite of what it should be.
I would agree that on paper the two are highly similar in so many ways that it’s almost funny the arguments about them. Summerlin has amazing access to nature with trails and Red Rock, so does Henderson with 180 parks and Lake Mead close. Summerlin has luxury areas that are best of the best like The Ridges and many more, Henderson has Ascaya which is every bit competitive with The Ridges ($5-20M houses, Mark Davis) and Seven Hills, MacDonald Highlands, the whole ridge I’m up on next to Ascaya, Summerlin has an affluent vibe much like Henderson, and while you’d take Downtown Summerlin I’d take The District (there has never been anything going on the few times I went to downtown Summerlin, it had a creepy vibe to me personally), both areas have a major league training compound (Raiders in Henderson, VGK in Summerlin), both have a minor league team or one coming (AAA baseball for Summerlin, and Silver Knights in Henderson), etc.
I think they’re actually so similar that it just comes down to the feel, and that apparently is very personal. I just haven’t ever liked the feel of Summerlin, it just didn’t have the right vibe to me. Other people love it, and it’s one of the two best areas of Las Vegas Metro there’s no doubt about that. A great place to be. For me, I like having our own police department in Henderson. I like it being its own city. I don’t like that nice places in Summerlin can have 2-3 HOAs - master Summerlin HOA, neighborhood HOA (say, The Ridges), and your gated community HOA. That’s 1-2 too many. One is enough. I got a little too much of a “family” vibe I didn’t like in Summerlin, but others want that. For me, it was too much.
I just can’t get over how far away Summerlin is too, that just was too much for me. It’s waaay out there, at least compared to the distance I like. In the middle of the night I had a crazy Uber driver get us home in 9 minutes from the airport. Very illegal, but very quick haha.
California may not be a place to retire for you and your particular situation but it is for others who can afford it.
Why would you want to retire in Las Vegas? To hibernate inside the house for the rest of your life? You can’t compare the lifestyle between those two states. In Las Vegas everyone just hibernates inside the house, summers are brutal and have you experienced those desert gusty winds before?
Quality of healthcare and those low class doctors and hospitals should be a major reason never to consider retirement in Las Vegas. Why would you retire in a city with the worst healthcare system in the nation? Don’t you want to be in the area with the top doctors and hospitals when you retire?
Crime is another major reason you should never consider retiring in Las Vegas. Do you follow the news? Every other day there is a shooting on Las Vegas Blvd. Those Casinos are not safe anymore to visit. Robberies or home invasions seem to be a daily occurrence as well. Despite what local media propaganda may say or those manipulated crime statistics crime in Las Vegas is out of control.
Best of luck to you.
Let me ask you a question, If you hate Las Vegas so much, why do you come on a Las Vegas thread? Bitter?
I retired here 3 years ago and love it. I am from Texas and I laugh at what some people call heat in Las Vegas. I'm 58 and only Hybernate in the Winter months, oh that is right we don't have Winter.
Calif. offers crime, high taxes, idiot liberals and don't forget the wild fires every year, due to their mis management. Let's build a wall and keep the loonies locked in Calif. Yes, I lived in San Diego, could not wait to get out.
Let me ask you a question, If you hate Las Vegas so much, why do you come on a Las Vegas thread? Bitter?
I retired here 3 years ago and love it. I am from Texas and I laugh at what some people call heat in Las Vegas. I'm 58 and only Hybernate in the Winter months, oh that is right we don't have Winter.
Calif. offers crime, high taxes, idiot liberals and don't forget the wild fires every year, due to their mis management. Let's build a wall and keep the loonies locked in Calif. Yes, I lived in San Diego, could not wait to get out.
I'm looking at the possibility of retiring there next year. Not been there yet but plan to scope out Henderson, Summerlin and Centennial based on all the comments here. What we're considering is LV as the primary residence but then leaving from Jun-Aug for cooler, northern weather. Not an original idea for sure.
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