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Who wants to live in Vegas anyways?

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Alex Honnold the famous free climber spoke highly of it in a recent interview when talking about where he bought his house. Apparently it's a good area for outdoorsy stuff, lots of wild things within reach, cooler at high elevations, while still having a city center.

I lived in Las Vegas for two years, and loved it. I don't drink or gamble, and I was born and raised in Brooklyn for context. I loved biking, hiking, climbing, kayaking, and skiing there. It's sunny almost all year long, and this had a great affect on my attitude. The restaurants, malls, and other off-The-Strip amenities are what you are used to in most East coast suburban areas. There is music and art being made there, and flying in and out of McCarran airport is as easy as it gets. I saw the movie 'Free Solo' three weeks ago, and it shows Alex settling in to a house he bought with his girlfriend in Las Vegas. Really good movie BTW.

I believe it, most of the USA deserts are comically underrated.

Las Vegas also has Mount Charleston [1] nearby for when the summer gets too hot.

I have a small acreage near Joshua Tree National Park and it's a lot of fun, plenty of outdoorsy activities and low costs so one doesn't have to waste much time on working. My assumption is that there are similar circumstances to be had in Nevada. We also have a mountain escape nearby in Big Bear for when it's hot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Charleston [1.bis] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Charleston,_Nevada

Yes, it's amazing how less you spend, and how much your health and attitude improves when the environment is conducive to being outside on your bike, skates, or shoes! A mountain range far enough away that it doesn't feel like a barrier, but close enough to look to for awe. I am thinking about LV, or back to Indonesia where I lived for over a year in the rice fields of East Java. Now, I am trying to see how I can build a business in a remote area without being a remote worker. I find trying to do what I do back here in NY/NJ doesn't work for me. I like the separation of worlds.

Not my thing (to live there permanently) but I know people who like the desert Southwest. Outside the fairly uninteresting cities--Vegas is a lot more than the Strip but it's mostly generic sprawl IMO--there are a lot of interesting National Parks, mountains, etc. Also a lot of people like to golf and that's big there. And if you want to travel a lot, there's a major airport.

Its a great hub city to travel from. Cheap housing, enough stuff to do while you are in town (the jokes of it having no culture arent true anymore, even if its not big city good), and flights are cheap from McCarren.

That said, I still moved after I got over my travel-all-the-time phase and felt like I had done everything to do there.

Theres supposedly a lot of opportunity there for people who only have a high school diploma (or less) due to the casinos and manual labor.

Isn't the weather scorching hot in the summer?

I'd imagine many would choose a fun LCOL over a boring HCOL such as the Bay Area.

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