[kimba01]

Ok, just got back from a BBQ at an employee's home in BC. Great time. Great food.

But, after reading that BC is so expensive and it is where alot of people aspire to go and live, I don't get it.

It is much older, smaller, like an old western town.

Maybe I am use to seeing the newer subs and homes in the valley, but seriously as cute and quaint as the town was, I thought it was kind of backwoodsish. Not saying I would not live there, or even have a problem with that, but some of the people I saw milling about town, I wonder how the heck they afford to live there. Unless they sold their teeth for their property or inherited it.

Even the high school looked archaic. Guess you are paying for a piece of the slower life in a big city area. But then, why come here at all.

[Buzz123]

I don't think that newer homes in BC are any more expensive than in Las Vegas. It's the older "historic" homes near downtown and the park. But whatever, you are paying for location. And that means it costs more for quaint around here since it is very rare...in fact it's the only small, quiet, quaint, little town in Southern Nevada. It's the only town in Nevada where gambling is illegal. Even alcohol was banned there for many years. Add to that the proximity to the lake and you've got expensive. But I know what you mean about seeing folks out there, especially young, hippy types that don't seem to have the means to live there. I think most of the population there is older though. There are actually people there that have been in BC all their lives and remember the dam being built in the 1930's. BC is sort of a living museum of Hoover Dam history. It was built and owned by the federal government until the late 1960's if I remember right, and they wouldn't allow drinking or gambling. I remember what a big deal it was when they finally allowed restaurants to serve alcohol.

[kimba01]

Hmm, I guess I wasn't thinking about the proximity to the lake, I was just thinking about the town itself.

Unique homes-especially for Vegas. I think that is cool, but they seemed so oldish/rundown kinda. I was just surprised, I expected so different, I guess.

Stopped at the general store for beer. Sign said beer/wine. Yeah, right. There were a couple bottles hanging out in the one small cooler there. Quaint for sure! Lady was very nice and talkative too! She felt bad that she didn't carry our brand, but that wasn't it. We didn't want just one.

[lvkewlkid]

it reminds me of a town on the Jersey Shore, just with southwestern facades and no oceanfront...

[PinkString]

There are other quaint places besides Boulder City. I know a couple in Boulder city that have been renting their old house for 30 years. Renting! I keep telling them they could have owned a house by now, and their landlord just loves them. They paid off the mortgage! lol

Kimba, you did hear about the murder that happened out there a few years ago..right? The body was found in the lake..in pieces. With some parts missing.(found later when they arrested the nutcase) The victim was a very nice woman who worked as a maid in the casino/hotel near there..delivered extra towels to the wrong room.

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by PinkString

There are other quaint places besides Boulder City. I know a couple in Boulder city that have been renting their old house for 30 years. Renting! I keep telling them they could have owned a house by now, and their landlord just loves them. They paid off the mortgage! lol

Kimba, you did hear about the murder that happened out there a few years ago..right? The body was found in the lake..in pieces. With some parts missing.(found later when they arrested the nutcase) The victim was a very nice woman who worked as a maid in the casino/hotel near there..delivered extra towels to the wrong room.

Pink it's not always on the local news because they are too busy showing car commercials and screaming the weather at us but now that the water is so low they are constantly finding bodies in the receding water. Some were from way way back when the mob put a cinder block on their leg and dumped them thinking they would never ever be found. Now look what they are finding !

Every day you have treasure hunters combing the lake shore lines finding things that boaters lost. An entire town is exposed up in the Overton Arm. The Church steeple from the ancient town now protrudes the water surface.

[PinkString]

DesertSun, this was in the local park with a small lake where the womans body parts were dumped. In Boulder City, aka as Mayberry Rfd. I think this was about 3-4 or so years ago. This was definitely on the local news, in the RJ and a few other places. i even saw it in the Press Enterprise paper for California. pe.com.
Anyway...i know that the outskirts of town, construction sites etc are notorious for dumping bodies. They just found another one up by black mountain in Henderson last week. Judging from the location, it could have been a lost hiker though.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

Pink it's not always on the local news because they are too busy showing car commercials and screaming the weather at us but now that the water is so low they are constantly finding bodies in the receding water. Some were from way way back when the mob put a cinder block on their leg and dumped them thinking they would never ever be found. Now look what they are finding !

Every day you have treasure hunters combing the lake shore lines finding things that boaters lost. An entire town is exposed up in the Overton Arm. The Church steeple from the ancient town now protrudes the water surface.

You been drinking too much coffee. There is an exposed town...No steeples..No wood. No bodies. Not dropping in recent time.

Boaters loose gear all the time around harbors and anchorages. If the water is less than 100 feet the divers get it.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by kimba01

Ok, just got back from a BBQ at an employee's home in BC. Great time. Great food.

But, after reading that BC is so expensive and it is where alot of people aspire to go and live, I don't get it.

It is much older, smaller, like an old western town.

Maybe I am use to seeing the newer subs and homes in the valley, but seriously as cute and quaint as the town was, I thought it was kind of backwoodsish. Not saying I would not live there, or even have a problem with that, but some of the people I saw milling about town, I wonder how the heck they afford to live there. Unless they sold their teeth for their property or inherited it.

Even the high school looked archaic. Guess you are paying for a piece of the slower life in a big city area. But then, why come here at all.

Let me bring a little light into this discussion. Boulder City is very expensive. Not a little very...

The median price of a sold home in BC for the last year was $725,000. The average price was 740,000. Las Vegas is about $220,000 and $275,000 for those two numbers. And of the 47 homes for sale the median price is 779,000 and the average price is 1.2 million.

The newer, nicer homes are very, very expensive. The old victorians are very, very expensive.

There is some back street junk that can be bought for less than 300,000...but that would go for under $150K in Las Vegas.

The High School is roughly the same as Coronado in performance terms. The other schools are all in the top 10%.

It is a nice place to live...but you do pay for it.

Note that it is also a very big city. Far bigger than any other in Nevada or most of the west.

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by PinkString

DesertSun, this was in the local park with a small lake where the womans body parts were dumped. In Boulder City, aka as Mayberry Rfd. I think this was about 3-4 or so years ago. This was definitely on the local news, in the RJ and a few other places. i even saw it in the Press Enterprise paper for California. pe.com.
Anyway...i know that the outskirts of town, construction sites etc are notorious for dumping bodies. They just found another one up by black mountain in Henderson last week. Judging from the location, it could have been a lost hiker though.

Ok then your talking about the lake in the nice park across from the Veterans Cemetary.

I dont remember the story.