You mean like 15,000+ feet up in the clouds ?

Yeah, where I grew up the skeeters were small and not particularly numerous. Even the ones in California brutalized me when I lived there. I hardly ever went outside after dark.

Grunching: Did anyone mention all the casino resorts? UNLV has a top notch Hospitality Management program too iirc.

Is it the same guy?
I thought he was banned?
Doesn't matter Gzesh. It's a good conversation that he's become irrelevant to anyway.

I just came back from Vegas a few days ago.
I was invited to my brother in laws place for the weekend in Cape Cod.
Good food. Good drink. Good company.
All for naught. After Vegas, everything seems boring.
It's all about the action baby.

I really, really miss living in Vegas. Now l can't complain, I live in a pleasant enough burg with low rent, $10 /8ths, good medical care, reasonable selection of restaurants. But what I'd give for weekend crab legs at the South Point. I miss taking a swim and jacuzzi in my own pool at 4 A.M. and air drying afterward. And all the stuff that other guy listed.

I was in LV the last time the housing market tanked and every other door was covered with blue foreclosure tape. Maybe it will be that way again and I can get in on it.

There are SOME Cost of Living issues that simply cannot be ignored...amazes me how Californiafied the price of gas has become. Most of what I saw the past few weeks was in the $3.40 range for basic unleaded...contrast that with $2.25 when I got back home this morning (was $2.28 when I left a few weeks ago).

Still no state income tax though and regular taxes don't seem excessive. I did not price out auto insurance, although outside of a full move, I would only have to deal with that on one vehicle.

Too many of the condo associations charge way too much for association fees based on what I saw when property shopping last fall.

Food costs (grocery store) seemed only slightly higher.

OP seems primarily to just want to whine though...while it was a little warm, I will take low 100's with a breeze and next to no humidity over 95/95 any day of the week. The fact that there are no hurricanes jacking things up is a small bonus as well LOL!

Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.

Lived in Henderson last year for work for about 6 months, and it completely sold me on it. Can't wait to go back out permanently. What might not be your ideal place can certainly be the ideal place of many others. Poker eccentric, good shows, amazing food, legal weed if it's your thing, 24 hour city... All my thing.

Where do you think most of the gas in Vegas comes from?

Guess what consumer good Nevada taxes instead of income to build and maintain the roads.

Hint: 10th highest tax rate in the country. You put it in your car.

Most car gas comes from Utah now that the UNEV is complete (used to be majority Cal through CALNEV pipeline but now it's mostly from Utah) and natural gas comes from southwest Wyoming or Texas.

and sure if you're comparing Vegas to Miami or San Jose, etc. it's cheaper, but like 8 years ago homes in Vegas were 80k-140k and now they're tripled in price. Relative to what you get, Vegas is overpriced.

Also if you have kids the school system is horrible.

On Cape Cod. Not in Cape Cod or at Cape Cod.

Sorry pet peeve

I just came back from Vegas and I did notice that gas prices seemed a bit high. So I had to look this up and sure enough, Vegas folks are paying about 50c more per gallon than I am. That's pretty substantial.

I really suspect that it's all the California people that think Vegas is cheap because it doesn't seem cheap by any other standard. Heck, even by my Manhattan standards, I didn't think Vegas was cheap.

I play poker but I'm not into gambling and generally don't have a high opinion of gambling or casinos. Video poker and slots every damn place you go with random homeless(?) people putting in their last dollar at the gas station is not my idea of a pleasant place to live. It's just depressing. The amount of druggies and vagrants all around town is pretty staggering for the price the real estate commands in those areas. I would not feel comfortable walking in a quite a few of these areas.

I do think it could be a great place for hiking with some great national parks in the region.

I went to a lot of restaurants not on the strip and the best thing I had was actually at a chain new to me: Capriotti's Capastrami. It is as good as many of the famous pastrami delis here in NYC in my opinion. I tried quite a few supposedly high rated restaurants and a lot of them were so-so, prices were nothing special, and quite a few had to be faking their reviews because they were pretty sub par.

My pet peeves ....
1. It is Las Vegas, not "Vegas".
2. We care not how they do it back wherever the f**k you moved from to here.
3. That United resurrected "Fever Pitch", a truly cringe-worthy Boston movie, to show on my flight from Costa Rica Sunday. At least they could have screened The Departed instead.

I was in Houston yesterday and saw gas prices almost a dollar less than is common here in Las Vegas.

Are you saying you pay less for gas in/on Manhattan ? Not that it matters, as where can you drive and park anyway ?

Capriottis originated in Delaware.

Houston is literally surrounded by huge oil refineries.

I've bought gas in Richmond, California, literally in the shadow of a Chevron refinery, and it was over 4 bucks a gallon when it was 3 and change back home, which is far from the nearest refinery. Transport costs of gasoline are trivial compared to what the gas costs.

A friend once told me best reason to live in vegas, at least if you are a poker player or some other kind of gambler/casino junkie, is just being around like minded people. Women are more tolerant of your chosen profession, the people you meet and talk to on a regular basis wont be completely blown away that you do something like play poker for a living, and the friends you'll make will keep your head in the game instead of people just trying to talk you out of it or asking "BUT HOW MUCH HAVE YOU LOST???"

He ha. Thanks. No offense taken. I guess my grammar is terrible.
I keep telling myself to post less. Getting there

Ha ha. Gzesh, have some weed dude.

I agree that Vegas is a toilet but the cost of living is actually very cheap if you aren't a degenerate.

California refineries operate under the most stringent environmental regulations in the country. Regulations cost money. They produce a special blend of gas that is required in California. Limited market means you pay more money. Cost of production, supply and demand, it really isn't that hard to figure out.

More absolute nonsense.

Here's a quick anecdote that fits almost perfectly to your timeframe. I bought a house in Spanish Trail in 2010 for $425k. I sold it in 2013 for $485k when I moved to Miami Beach, and it was just sold again earlier this year for $550k. That means that it rose approximately 13% in the 5 1/2 years between the time I sold it in 2013 and when it sold again in 2019. If you go back to when I bought it in 2010, it rose roughly 30% in value over that nine-year period. Hardly a 300% increase, lol.

To be fair, a tripling in price is only a 200% increase.

My recollection from when I first started going out there more than a decade ago was that prices were a lot closer to what I was paying across the Great State of Texas than what I got saddled with during trips to California. It was a little higher, but not a differential of more than a buck a gallon for regular unleaded.

Maybe I am just misremembering...that is an issue us old people occasionally have to deal with.

You probably remember correctly. The Great State of Texas set a 20 cent a gallon tax in 1991 and it has been the same ever since. In Nevada, not only is there 23.8 cent a gallon State tax, but there are county taxes. In 2016, Clark County passed a tax that increases by 3.6 cents a year, so by 2026 Las Vegas gas will have 98.32 cents per gallon in taxes.