[SoHoVe]

I've lived in both Houston and Las Vegas for the past 20 years.

I recommend looking into San Antonio...very family oriented nice city that isn't too big, is still affordable, offers a lot of kid friendly attractions and outdoor recreation.

I will try to elaborate tomorrow on Vegas and Houston if I have some time.

[lvmensch]

Originally Posted by Cowboys fan in Houston

City statistics are worthless. Only the metro areas are best. Las Vegas metro area is easy because its only Clark County.

And am I incorrect? Im not sure that I am. I posted a link to support what I was saying. It shows Clark County has having 106,000 illegal resident. That would make 5.04% of Clark County as being illegal residents.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data...n/county/32003

If you have data that is different post a detailed link.

Pew as shown..

Estimates of unauthorized immigrant population, by metro area, 2014 | Pew Research Center

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

Originally Posted by lvmensch

Pew as shown..

Estimates of unauthorized immigrant population, by metro area, 2014 | Pew Research Center

It begs the question: which link is right? They are both reputable sources.

[diversityrules7]

I lived in Dallas (Frisco) for 10 years and Vegas for 5 years.

Dallas is CROWDED and AWFUL TRAFFIC now. Decent houses are 400k+ and property taxes are outrageous (8k+). Weather sucks for the most part and is a breadbasket for allergies. Mosquitoes/bugs/snakes, etc are common. HOT in summer (like Vegas but a stifling hot). I lost my roof last year to softball hail (24K) damage - oh yeah Texas is "business friendly" i.e. caps on lawsuits, generally bad for the individual. Texas is in bed with the insurance industry - so along with those 8k prop taxes expect to pay an additional 2k for homeowners insurance too.

parts of North dallas are turning into little india with several familes to a house and many are brining their culture with them...

anyway to summarize:

400k house in dallas burbs: 8k prop taxes, 2k prop insurance, no mountains, boring allergic landscape, crap weather
400k house in Henderson: 2.8k prop taxes, $600 prop insurance, mountains, great landscape, good weather

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

Originally Posted by diversityrules7

parts of North dallas are turning into little india with several familes to a house and many are brining their culture with them...

Lots of truth to that. I lived in Plano for 4 years and our neighborhood went from a diverse mix to everyone on our block but us being Indian.

[JonathanLB]

It also depends on where you are. Summerlin is 72% white and 10% Asian, so you have a very small portion of people who are Hispanic or black, for instance. I'm not making judgment whether that's good nor bad (it's neutral), I'm just demonstrating that I think wherever you are, there are of course differences by neighborhood not just by city.

I also think the whole "blue" and "red" thing is a false dichotomy. One big reason I'm moving to Nevada in the future is because it politically fits me better than Oregon. If you reduce things to red or blue, I'm moving from a blue state to another blue state. That's, of course, nonsense. Nevada isn't liberal, Nevada is libertarian. In OR, if you walked to your mailbox with a beer in one hand, you could be fined or arrested, it's illegal to have an open container in public like that. In Nevada they don't care. In OR you have 10% or higher income taxes, in Nevada 0%.

It doesn't matter if Nevada voted blue in a presidential election, Nevada is extremely friendly to my libertarian values. Since I'm socially liberal (fine with gay marriage, no problem with legal marijuana, not religious, etc.) and economically conservative, that's a great fit for me. It's literally in the state constitution that income taxes are forbidden (at the state level) in Nevada. So, sure, it may be a "blue" state but suffice to say people in Nevada share my political views more often than not, versus in OR where I think if they had it their way, they'd have a version of California's desire for socialism. They love high taxes, they love tons of government programs, and total wastefulness.

I guess the best thing any reasonable person could hope for is that the die-hard liberals stay in CA where they belong, and the more conservative thinkers move to Nevada. I know one of my conservative friends just picked up and left LA last year, bought a million dollar house in Summerlin. He had enough of the liberal high tax politics there and called it quits.