Anyone move to/from Reno?

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Originally Posted by enigmadsm

I hear ya on the rain thing, and my wife an I always keep that in the front of our mind when considering it...But there are payoffs to be had, like how lush and green everything is...without rain ya can't have that.

I plan on visiting during both winter and summer to get a feel for the seasons.

If I thought I could swing it I'd move to Seattle in a heartbeat. Go now, log off and move. Amazing city and unlike Reno, there are a ton of things to do.

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Unfortunately do to the current economy I am stuck living in Reno for the time being.
I have visited Boise and Boise is by far a nicer place. Reno is a very dirty city, cops are more interested in giving you tickets here than actually catching criminals and the politicians are not any better

The crime rate here is not just do to the economy you can look further back and see that for the amount of people that live here the crime rate is quite high. I also believe that this being a tourist town they don't really want to admit how bad the crime really is.

The few times I have been in Boise I have encountered very friendly people, not so much in Reno.

Needless to say I would choose Boise over Reno any day!

[enigmadsm]

Thanks for the feedback!

[Grumbler]

Originally Posted by 1ronclark

<...> but there is something to say about living in a place as beautiful as the Carson Valley, and our impression of the locals we encountered was they are relaxed, friendly and eager to help out-had traffic stop for me to cross 395 in downtown Carson City while the light was still green simply because I was standing at a crosswalk.

Two former longtime residents of Carson City relocated to a rural part of
Mountain Home a couple of years ago. They simply got fed-up with the
congestion, growing population (mostly from California), property taxes
and crime.

Just to put it into perspective, the Carson City that they fell in love with 25+
years ago isn't the same now as it was then. Mountain Home, to them, is like
Carson City back in the '80s.

Am just relaying what they told me. Am sure Carson City might seem to be a
slice of heaven to you compared to SoCal. Reno/Sparks doesn't do anything
for me.