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Purebred Redneck
04-17-2005, 03:13 PM
Hey guys, maybe you guys can help me a little. I'm sure there are some members who live in Nevada.

I'm in the first stages of putting in job applications in the Las Vegas area and think I would stand a GREAT chance at getting it from what they've told me.


Anyway, have any of you vacationed or lived in Sin City or any part of Nevada? The only thing I know is the cost of living is high, the temperature is high, and there's that fishing lake all the pros fish. It's the biggest growing area in the US.

Can you shine anymore light into the city - is it all trash or is it halfway clean in the suburbs? Anything regarding hunting or fishing?

thanks

TreeDoc
04-17-2005, 03:50 PM
PBR goes WEST? :eek:

Check with muledeer....seems I remember him mentioning something about all his neighbors being "gone" so I bet he could sell you a house near Reno for cheap!

denton
04-17-2005, 04:50 PM
I used to live in Nevada, in a cooler part of the state, just down the eastern slopes of the Sierras from Tahoe.

It has some major plusses, and some major minuses.

Taxes are cheap. Tourists pay most of them. 20 years ago, my annual taxes on a $100,000 house were under $400 per year. There is no state income tax.

Empty space is abundant. There was a spot about 1/4 mile from my house, where I could shoot my '06 to my heart's content.

Where I lived, easy access to Tahoe and the Sierras was great. Sometimes my wife would call me at work, so I'd be sure to come home on time, and we'd take a picnic and eat dinner at Tahoe.

If you don't gamble, good food and entertainment are cheap. If you do gamble, they are expensive. The probability of being ahead of the house after only 12 hands of blackjack is just a few percent. A dollar slot machine in a good location will pay its owner $5,000 per week. Every casino in town was built with money people lost. On average, casino employees give nearly half their paychecks back to the casinos at the tables.

Schools are pretty good.

If you're raising kids, the environment can best be described as morally corrosive. But you can live there, and raise good kids, if the right other influences are there.

Purebred Redneck
04-17-2005, 05:10 PM
I'm trying to get a high school job within driving distance from the morally corrosive city that I want to live in :D :D :D

You know - make a fool out of yourself friday nights and all day saturday and no kids recognizes you :p

I don't gamble so it's not a problem. I do close down every bar or fall over trying.
Is Reno or Vegas very clean if I were to live there in the city?

I know treedoc. I moved to a city 2 years ago and haven't been the same since:o

denton
04-17-2005, 05:47 PM
Reno is a clean town, as is Carson City. Vegas is also clean.

Vegas is beastly hot during summer days, but anyplace you live, there will be about 3-4 months of weather that you don't really like.

Vegas is an adult version of Disneyland, somehow gone horribly wrong. It's bizarre, that's all you can say. Reno and Tahoe have completely different flavors.

Closing down bars in Vegas is a little bigger job than it is in some parts of the country.

The place is morally corrosive to kids, because they grow up very aware of things like T&A shows, and prostitution. But, as I said, you can raise good kids there.

Rocky Raab
04-18-2005, 10:45 AM
Personally, I can't stand Vegas, and I go there on business a few times a year.

If you stay away from "the Strip" it's probably a lot like anywhere else (provided that other place is located inside a pizza oven). But even the talk radio there is sexually explicit in a gross way.

The way it's going, there won't be a square foot of unpaved land within 50 miles of the Strip before long. Where they think they're going to get enough water for all that development is beyond me.

All I can say is, if it appeals to you PBR, give it a shot. You could always move again if it didn't work out.

TreeDoc
04-18-2005, 01:08 PM
Are you seeking a Teaching position, PBR? I can't imagine Vegas is the only place in the country that has one available...what discipline are you looking at teaching or are you credentialed?

denton
04-18-2005, 02:24 PM
Where they think they're going to get enough water for all that development is beyond me.

Tourists bring water with them. You just have to reprocess it. If you get enough tourists, the system is self sustaining.

muledeer
04-18-2005, 04:58 PM
Can't say much for LV. I've only been there once back in 1971. To flat for me. I've lived in Reno 31 years and have no intentions of leaving. Reno is located at the base of the Sierra Nevadas in a very scenic location. The Truckee River flows through the middle of the city. Hunting includes upland birds ie. chuckar, guail, grouse, sage hen etc, muledeer, elk, antelope, and bighorn sheep. All kinds of fishing. Lots of nightime entertainment. 24 hour town if that means anything. No state income tax (gaming takes care of that), no estate tax, and no inheritance tax. Real estate is expensive. Summer temperatures range from high 70's to just above 100 in August. Winter temps vary from single digits to mid 40's. Snow varies from winter to winter. This winter was the worst since 1916. 31" in 24 hours. Skiing sometime into early summer! I've been in a t-shirt in February. Basically, if you don't like the weather just wait 5 mins. Seems like there is something going on every weekend in the summer Chili cookoff, rib cookoff, Hot August Nights (one week of classic cars from all over) etc. Oh yeah, a right to carry state:D
muledeer

Purebred Redneck
04-18-2005, 05:26 PM
Treedoc, there is only 16 high school social studies openings in the state of Missouri that I would be interested in (within 40 miles from one of the bigger cities in the state. I've had some issues within the last couple years and I need to be by people or else I'll go crazy nuts)
Of course the only problem is the fact there are going to be countless people applying for these same jobs as social studies is the only subject in the state in which applicants outnumber the jobs.

The Las Vegas area is the fasting growing city in the nation. Several sources have told me they are begging for even social studies teachers and they bend over backwards for you.
I have had several schools through an agency make personal contact with me.

I might have to look around in the Reno area - that sounds nice.

I'll have to figure stuff out and fast before long

TreeDoc
04-18-2005, 05:48 PM
Originally posted by denton
Where they think they're going to get enough water for all that development is beyond me.

Tourists bring water with them. You just have to reprocess it. If you get enough tourists, the system is self sustaining.

Ohhhhhh...THAT'S why I saw that billboard on Interstate 15 asking Californians to drink lots of water before coming to Las Vegas! :confused: :D

denton
04-18-2005, 08:41 PM
PBR, the Reno area is a much nicer place than LV to live.

I lived about 50 miles south of there, south of Carson City, about halfway between Carson and Minden/Gardnerville.

If you like cities, you'll like LV. If you like some elbow room, hunting, and fishing, look farther north.

There is this one little phenomonon called a Washoe Zephyr that you'll find out about....

Anyway, the whole region from Reno south to Bishop CA is a really fine place to live.

Purebred Redneck
04-18-2005, 09:08 PM
Ok, that gives me some stuff to think about.

thanks