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Hi, I've been reading different threads on the Henderson or Las Vegas, Nevada forums. We may be moving out there due to my husband getting a job as a trademark attorney. I don't want to move but I know I may not have a choice. We currently live in a small town in NJ outside of Philadelphia. The public school has an excellent rating and the homes are old and historic. It is a walking town and there is a small but cute downtown area with a Starbucks and cute quaint restaurants. I know Henderson will be different. Based on what I've discovered online, I feel like Henderson would be the place to live. I like the Seven Hills neighborhood or (community). The private schools on the otherhand all seem to be located in Las Vegas. We have a 5 and 7 year old. I like what I've read about the Challenger School, Las Vegas Day School, and Southern Highland Prep. I am considering private because all of the research I've done including reading comments in this forum say that the public schools in Clark County are horrible. Please give me suggestions on neighborhoods with sidewalks, safe neighborhoods and possibly a neighborhood where I might get to know my neighbors. We have block parties and Christmas parties and Easter Egg hunts here. Is it possible to find neighborhoods such as this. Please share your opinions on the privat schools that I mentioned as well. Thank you.
Hi, I've been reading different threads on the Henderson or Las Vegas, Nevada forums. We may be moving out there due to my husband getting a job as a trademark attorney. I don't want to move but I know I may not have a choice. We currently live in a small town in NJ outside of Philadelphia. The public school has an excellent rating and the homes are old and historic. It is a walking town and there is a small but cute downtown area with a Starbucks and cute quaint restaurants. I know Henderson will be different. Based on what I've discovered online, I feel like Henderson would be the place to live. I like the Seven Hills neighborhood or (community). The private schools on the otherhand all seem to be located in Las Vegas. We have a 5 and 7 year old. I like what I've read about the Challenger School, Las Vegas Day School, and Southern Highland Prep. I am considering private because all of the research I've done including reading comments in this forum say that the public schools in Clark County are horrible. Please give me suggestions on neighborhoods with sidewalks, safe neighborhoods and possibly a neighborhood where I might get to know my neighbors. We have block parties and Christmas parties and Easter Egg hunts here. Is it possible to find neighborhoods such as this. Please share your opinions on the privat schools that I mentioned as well. Thank you.
You might consider Green Valley Ranch as well as Seven Hills. GVR is closer to what you have now. Seven Hills is very nice but it is classical suburb with accewss primarily to the local neighborhoods...it is a car place.
You are incorrect on the schools. While the overall school system is not great...very much like the other large urban school districts... places like GVR and Seven Hills have excellent public schools which are equal to or better than the private schools you mentioned.
The Day school is well thought of. Challenger is more controversial. People love it or hate it. There is discussion here about Challenger. People complain of high teacher turnover and a rigid structure. A rigid structure is not bad however if you like it.
YOu might also consider Summerlin. Particularly some of the older neighborhoods. The schools there are also quite good and the best of the private schools, Meadows, is located there. Meadows is both expensive and highly structured.
There are some very good public schools, and some that are ...well....toliet worthy. We just moved to an area with Del Webb middle school and Lamping elementary and both are great. Challenger is a great school for learning math and phonics, not to great for extra cirriculars and stability in teachers. My wife was a teacher there and all my kids went there for 4 years, and when we came back to Ohio for a short time they all skipped a grade as they were that far ahead(usually Challenger runs 1 year and 1.5 years ahead)The lunches are very expensive and there are no athletics. My oldest upon returning to Henderson is in Henderson International, and we could not be happier. They are not as hardcore on learning only, the academics is all around better than Challenger and they have athletic teams that play on fields that are better than some small colleges. Both are expensive with H.I. being more but they include field trips in the tuition. To find neighborhoods like that here will be hard as many people move in and out and there does not seem to be a lot of community togetherness. You may find some, but there are those things that are put on by the cities as I remember a huge easter egg hunt at one of the high schools we used to attend.
I've never lived in Las Vegas but somehow it has always seemed kind of like home to me in the sense that I know the Strip better than I know anywhere else that I don't live lol. I don't know (and don't care) about the rest of Vegas, though, it's just sort of there.
It does make a big difference to have family and friends somewhere. That's why I spent all summer back in Portland, OR, because my friends and my dad are here. Still, I honestly have more people I'd like to hang out with in Vegas than in Los Angeles and I've lived in L.A. for more than 4 years. I have 0 friends there, just a lot of business contacts. I don't really give a crap about anyone I know in L.A. except for business reasons. If not for that, I'd never hear from any of them. Yet I have a few friends in Vegas, my aunt lives in Vegas actually, and I'm working on convincing my friend in Portland to move there when he's out of college next year.
Also I think some of the "negatives" in Vegas would be things I consider a positive. I read this forum where people were giving the city reviews and everyone said yeah it's great for young single people, but it sucks when you want to raise a family, and I thought exactly, that is why Vegas is awesome. I DO NOT want to see screaming brats all over, so if someone wants to start pumping out kids, yes please, go to another state, that is awesome. I think it would be great for the state if the university system was a lot better, but if bad public schools keep families and kids away, this is a good thing not a bad thing.
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I've never lived in Las Vegas but somehow it has always seemed kind of like home to me in the sense that I know the Strip better than I know anywhere else that I don't live lol. I don't know (and don't care) about the rest of Vegas, though, it's just sort of there.
It does make a big difference to have family and friends somewhere. That's why I spent all summer back in Portland, OR, because my friends and my dad are here. Still, I honestly have more people I'd like to hang out with in Vegas than in Los Angeles and I've lived in L.A. for more than 4 years. I have 0 friends there, just a lot of business contacts. I don't really give a crap about anyone I know in L.A. except for business reasons. If not for that, I'd never hear from any of them. Yet I have a few friends in Vegas, my aunt lives in Vegas actually, and I'm working on convincing my friend in Portland to move there when he's out of college next year.
Also I think some of the "negatives" in Vegas would be things I consider a positive. I read this forum where people were giving the city reviews and everyone said yeah it's great for young single people, but it sucks when you want to raise a family, and I thought exactly, that is why Vegas is awesome. I DO NOT want to see screaming brats all over, so if someone wants to start pumping out kids, yes please, go to another state, that is awesome. I think it would be great for the state if the university system was a lot better, but if bad public schools keep families and kids away, this is a good thing not a bad thing.
Still going on about that? I think you made this point many times. We get it, you don't want kids. That's cool, some people are better off not procreating. Regardless of what you WANT though, there are children there and always will be. So...maybe you should choose to move somewhere far more remote and childless. Seems pointless to tell others where to live so that your life might be better for you. Seems you would just find that place that is already all that!
I thought you would have been in Las Vegas already.
I lived in Henderson from 2002 - 2003 and liked it a lot. My husband and I at that time moved from Green Bay Wisconsin to Henderson, NV. There was a big wake up call for us because grocery prices in WI were a lot cheaper than in Henderson/Las Vegas. I miss living there because where I am now in California (tiny town) there is not that much excitement. When we lived there, we did what most locals did and that was go to the buffets a lot. The first six months were the hardest as we had no job and were just living off of our wits, but we survived. We both managed to get jobs and settle down. However due to a family illness, we had to pack up and move back to Wisconsin. We ended up splitting up and I vowed that one day I would move back to Nevada, I just don't know what part as of yet - the north vs the south. I have heard that the people in Northern Nevada were always a bit snobby than the people in Southern Nevada. I have found this not to be true.
I would like to know if apartment mangers still accept new renters without that much hassel. When I rented an apt from Wisconsin without seeing the apt first and having no job, I had no trouble getting one. Is it the still the same way?
Also I think some of the "negatives" in Vegas would be things I consider a positive. I read this forum where people were giving the city reviews and everyone said yeah it's great for young single people, but it sucks when you want to raise a family, and I thought exactly, that is why Vegas is awesome. I DO NOT want to see screaming brats all over, so if someone wants to start pumping out kids, yes please, go to another state, that is awesome. I think it would be great for the state if the university system was a lot better, but if bad public schools keep families and kids away, this is a good thing not a bad thing.
You may not want to see screaming brats everywhere but they do live here and you do not. That's like me going to Seattle and saying I don't want the darn trees, lets take them all down.
I think the BIG misconception is that LV was built soley for the purpose of single people to play, like it's a giant adult theme park. Everyone focuses on that one aspect because of how it's been advertized and promoted over the last 50 years. Suddenly Las Vegas BELONGS to the toursists. But the fact is that my children were the fourth generation in our family born in Las Vegas, and they are 5th generation southern Nevadans in general. Las Vegas was founded not by mobsters and casino executives, but long before that by pioneers, mormons, families, entrepreneurs and miners. They helped to build this city up, and THEN the strip and the casinos came along. This city wasn't built as an attraction like Disneyland. That came into play many generations later. For everyone's favorite "adult playground" to continue running and providing customer service, paved roads, top notch food, entertainment, fire and police protection to the thousands of drunk tourists that call 911 every night because they can't handle their liquor....there has to be actual employees. Unless you hire only single people with no families or recruit all workers to commute from out of state, then these employees need to also raise their families, and provide for them with medical, schools, parks etc.....So I don't see how it's possible, to have Las Vegas, or The Strip without families. These families pay their fair share of taxes and then some, and they deserve to have good schools.
This concept isn't unique to LV. I hear it in any city thread where there are a lot of retirees or huge influxes of new people moving in. They say, "Why should I pay for schools, I already raised my kids?" I ask, why would you want to live in a city that doesn't provide the essentials to produce well mannered, civil, intelligent, hard-working adults? The very adults that will provide you with medical care and fix your roads. That begins in youth. It's crazy to ask people who have been raising their families for generations in this city, to up and move because you don't think they belong.
On a related note, we know of a couple on the Jersey Shore, LONG before Snookie and the guidos made it famous, who get the same attitude thrown at them. Jersey is a party-town for tourists, why don't they leave and take their kids somewhere else. Why? Because they were there FIRST.
Okay stepping down off of my soap box. Anyone TRULY interested should really read the book the The First 100: Portraits of the Men and Women That Shaped Las Vegas. I have several relatives in there, and that is the REAL story of how and why LV came to be.
You may not want to see screaming brats everywhere but they do live here and you do not. That's like me going to Seattle and saying I don't want the darn trees, lets take them all down.
I think the BIG misconception is that LV was built soley for the purpose of single people to play, like it's a giant adult theme park. Everyone focuses on that one aspect because of how it's been advertized and promoted over the last 50 years. Suddenly Las Vegas BELONGS to the toursists. But the fact is that my children were the fourth generation in our family born in Las Vegas, and they are 5th generation southern Nevadans in general. Las Vegas was founded not by mobsters and casino executives, but long before that by pioneers, mormons, families, entrepreneurs and miners. They helped to build this city up, and THEN the strip and the casinos came along. This city wasn't built as an attraction like Disneyland. That came into play many generations later. For everyone's favorite "adult playground" to continue running and providing customer service, paved roads, top notch food, entertainment, fire and police protection to the thousands of drunk tourists that call 911 every night because they can't handle their liquor....there has to be actual employees. Unless you hire only single people with no families or recruit all workers to commute from out of state, then these employees need to also raise their families, and provide for them with medical, schools, parks etc.....So I don't see how it's possible, to have Las Vegas, or The Strip without families. These families pay their fair share of taxes and then some, and they deserve to have good schools.
This concept isn't unique to LV. I hear it in any city thread where there are a lot of retirees or huge influxes of new people moving in. They say, "Why should I pay for schools, I already raised my kids?" I ask, why would you want to live in a city that doesn't provide the essentials to produce well mannered, civil, intelligent, hard-working adults? The very adults that will provide you with medical care and fix your roads. That begins in youth. It's crazy to ask people who have been raising their families for generations in this city, to up and move because you don't think they belong.
On a related note, we know of a couple on the Jersey Shore, LONG before Snookie and the guidos made it famous, who get the same attitude thrown at them. Jersey is a party-town for tourists, why don't they leave and take their kids somewhere else. Why? Because they were there FIRST.
Okay stepping down off of my soap box. Anyone TRULY interested should really read the book the The First 100: Portraits of the Men and Women That Shaped Las Vegas. I have several relatives in there, and that is the REAL story of how and why LV came to be.
I'm not saying that nobody can raise kids in Las Vegas, or shouldn't, I'm just applauding the fact that most people think it's a terrible place to raise kids. That is a GOOD thing. I will be a Vegas resident next year, not a tourist, and I'll be paying my property taxes, sales taxes, and probably a fair amount of money added to the local economy on the Strip lol. One of the biggest appeals to me of the Strip is not just the great entertainment, but the fact that if I live in a condo there, I don't have to deal with a bunch of kids living there. First, not everyone wants to "raise a family," plenty of people are content not having little nose miners and wasting their time on that crap. Those people can just as easily work at casinos, too. And it's not that difficult for people to work there for a while, when they're young, then go find a more suitable state for them to "raise a family." I suggest Portland, it's incredibly boring and I think most people would find it ideal for boring activities like raising kids. For those of us who actually want to lead exciting lives free of such nonsense, though, then yes Las Vegas is a great city.
Also, I suggest learning more about your native city, because as awesome as it is that your family tree goes so long back, and that is awesome, in the same city, you seem to have a misunderstanding that Las Vegas was ever anything but a city catering to people who wanted otherwise forbidden entertainment options. After the whole mining rush ended, the population almost completely dried up. It managed to grow so fast because it took everything that California made illegal and made it legal instead. That was the reason for the rise of this great city. So the idea that the Strip is something recent and before that it was just a family town is wrong. Ever since Vegas has been a booming city, which was only the early 1900s when growth started taking off, it has been exactly for the reasons it remains the #1 U.S. tourist city today. So it would help to check your history before you claim to know more than the dumb tourists
So as far as the job market, how are the jobs in healthcare (yes, using a 4 yr degree and more)....Also can teach at the community college with a Masters degree. What is the situation as far as employment for folks who are well-educated?
Well I got my masters and am in healthcare. I am not yet in Vegas. I applied to jobs because I wanted one lined up by the time I move. Interviews were through the phone.
It took me two weeks to land one. And it is great paying too.
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Regardless of what you WANT though, there are children there and always will be. So...maybe you should choose to move somewhere far more remote and childless. Seems pointless to tell others where to live so that your life might be better for you. Seems you would just find that place that is already all that! 
Living in Henderson
I have heard that the people in Northern Nevada were always a bit snobby than the people in Southern Nevada. I have found this not to be true. 
Okay stepping down off of my soap box. Anyone TRULY interested should really read the book the The First 100: Portraits of the Men and Women That Shaped Las Vegas. I have several relatives in there, and that is the REAL story of how and why LV came to be. 
