Las Vegas:
* A very diverse city, demographically. Evenly split gender. Age demographics tend to lean either students (from UNLV) or 30s 40s.
* Affordable but lots to do. Amazing entertainment, restaurants, nightlife subsidized by tourists. The restaurants are great even off the strip and 1/3rd the price. Cost of living is 30% cheaper or more than the SF Bay Area for comparison.
* It has it's own different scenes for different people, such as the art district, downtown, China Town, Summerlin for families, Henderson for old people
* Housing is affordable, $300-400k gets you a 3 BR SFH easily
* No state taxes
* Lots of outdoors activities, hiking, climbing, even skiing/snowboarding with lifts thanks to Charleston, a 12k ft mountain next to the city
* LA is 4 hour drive away if you want a big city or beaches
* International airport that will take you anywhere
* Recycles 99% of it's water and a great place for generating electricity from the sun
Cons:
* Lots of gambling and drinking addictions
* Car centric. Public transit is more of an after thought.
* Lots of wind and it gets really hot June-October
* No plants. Just desert and donkeys.
* A very diverse city, demographically. Evenly split gender. Age demographics tend to lean either students (from UNLV) or 30s 40s.
* Affordable but lots to do. Amazing entertainment, restaurants, nightlife subsidized by tourists. The restaurants are great even off the strip and 1/3rd the price. Cost of living is 30% cheaper or more than the SF Bay Area for comparison.
* It has it's own different scenes for different people, such as the art district, downtown, China Town, Summerlin for families, Henderson for old people
* Housing is affordable, $300-400k gets you a 3 BR SFH easily
* No state taxes
* Lots of outdoors activities, hiking, climbing, even skiing/snowboarding with lifts thanks to Charleston, a 12k ft mountain next to the city
* LA is 4 hour drive away if you want a big city or beaches
* International airport that will take you anywhere
* Recycles 99% of it's water and a great place for generating electricity from the sun
Cons:
* Lots of gambling and drinking addictions
* Car centric. Public transit is more of an after thought.
* Lots of wind and it gets really hot June-October
* No plants. Just desert and donkeys.