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Originally Posted by TJ Eckleburg12
I’m strongly considering moving TO Vegas later this year.
Would you say your move is more about optimism about starting a family and living a smaller town life? Or are the drawbacks to living in Vegas wearing on you. If it’s the latter, I’d love to have you say more.
I agree Vegas would be a terrible place to raise a family. I’m not considering it as a forever move, as I’m not married with no kids. If I ever do meet the right person and want to settle down, I’m very sure I wouldn’t want to do it in Vegas.
For everyone else, the “retiring to Vegas” thread has lots of great discussion about the very real pluses and minuses about moving to, and living in Vegas.
We are praying for a baby in less than a year, and one of my hard rules with my wife was that was not happening in Vegas. With that said the last six months or so has really had some moments that made me more confident in my decision.
1) The economy has certainly hurt. Never thought living in Vegas would be anything other than a value proposition (take away strip activities). Post covid living in a gated community in Summerlin is nearly as expensive as living in northern Virginia, Charleston, Dallas, places that I love and imo offer far more.
2) I don’t know if it’s getting older but Vegas has changed a lot. More homelessness, more crime, less places that I am comfortable having my wife be alone, pot is inescapable and a net negative imo.
3) Issues with my friend groups. I’m less fun with my single friends than I used to be, lot of divorces with our couple friends. Not trying to judge anyone but Vegas simply has a huge percentage of unorthodox jobs, crazy hours, available vices, and it has led to more unstable friendships than I would prefer (I’ve played online poker for 20 years so I check plenty of weird boxes myself).
I would recommend to anyone that is single with at least a small amount of stability to take a year to live in a party city (vegas, Charleston, New Orleans), live in a big city like dc, New York, LA for year to experience different things.
I would say though, I got divorced at 32 immediately came out here and it was an absolute no brainer. I bounced around between living inHenderson and Summerlin, did all the prototypical Vegas things that involved spending a ton of money, had a great time, would have been single for another decade if I didn’t meet my wife. I think the current landscape of living in Vegas is less appealing for a single guy than it was. Hope that was somewhat helpful and not just ramblings of an over the hill online player