Considering moving to Gardnerville (Reno, Carson City: sales, safe neighborhoods, schools)

[think_kittens]

Hi everyone!

I'm thinking about moving to Gardnerville with my fiance and future stepson (3 years old). Right now we have two major reasons:

1. My son's grandparents are in Gardnernville
2. California sucks!

For a long time I've been wanting to get away from California because of the ridiculous cost of living, the housing crisis, the random taxes, and the extremely liberal environment. We live in wine country and we're not rich, so we really don't care to hang out with the locals and discuss the "bouquet" on the latest Zinfandel.

What we DO care about is:

1. Safe neighborhoods
2. A decent preschool
3. A more conservative, family-oriented scene
4. Friendly people!

So, to the locals, what's it like there in general? And do you think Gardnerville is a good place to find the 4 items above? Any feedback would be much appreciated!

P.S. My fiance is really into the outdoors, including hiking, hunting and fishing! That would be a huge plus for us.

[Iakom928]

We moved to the Carson Valley from Arizona just over a year ago and have been loving it ever since. This area will meet and most certainly, exceed your 4 requirements. Plus, It has everything your Fiance could imagine. He will find Hunting buddies everywhere and Tahoe is a short 30 minutes away (Ok, 45 if its snowing, lol).
We settled in the very Northern area of the valley since its closer to our Carson City jobs.

The Bad...
Jobs! if you're not bringing a business with you, finding jobs will be very tough. Recently, there have been several large companies close down and driving through the industrial area there are more empty buildings than occupied ones. Businesses in Carson city are "leaned out" and for every job opening there are 50 to 100 people looking to fill it.

The other Bad... There is an almost open HATRED of Californians who move here. Several people I know have told me of Californians, "Come to gamble, OK, Move here, NO F$%'N WAY!"
So most people I've met I don't ever mention that before moving to Arizona (3 short years ago) I was a born & raised So. Cali native. My neighbor from Cali has been looking for a job for over 8 months with only 2 or 3 interviews and no offers, I told him to stop listing his Cali past on apps and BAM! 2 promising interviews in the last couple of weeks.
More Bad... If you do get a job offer, the pay offered will be (as I say this nicely) "Thrifty". Several times, I had been offered positions @ $9 to $13hr. This came as a quite a shock to me since my last job I made over 70k and managed a 4 million a month division within a 5 billion dollar year company. The company I work for now doesn't even do 4 mil in sales a year and at first I tried to help them out and show off my exec skills to help build their client base, even though they loved the new accounts, the owners were quite openly unappreciative of my efforts and since, I have throttled my skills way way back to the level of just another 40 hr week employee making a <very> crappy paycheck.

So if you guys can find jobs... GO FOR IT!! and hope to see you here soon.

[michaelebersole]

anyone know how jobs are for driving i have a class b cdl and am looking to move to the carson valley area

[jaada]

i lived in gville for a few years, jobs are hard to get, but it sounds like everything thing else you are looking for however- schools are not so great, and there is alot of racisim. so becareful.

[free]

Ok so, job situation bad. What about new businesses. Is there a particular demand for certain services or products in the carson valley area, or maybe Reno, which are still needed and going to be needed in the next years?