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Im from Southern California and I just got offered a job opportunity in Las Vegas. Ive been to Vegas many times and its great for vacations. but how'sliving life out there?
Thinking of moving to Vegas... Yay or Nay?
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Is it going to pay alot?
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its 50/50. The pay is ok and I know that living in Vegas will be cheaper than SoCal. Also the job market is just awful right now in SoCal.
the thing for me is that I'll be leaving everything Ive ever known behind, friends, fam, etc.
the thing for me is that I'll be leaving everything Ive ever known behind, friends, fam, etc.
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my uncle lives there...he likes it...that's all i got
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I Moved From Va Year 1/2 Ago, I Love It, Granted I'm 21 Got My Own Place And Dont Work, So Your Situation May Differ.
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tell me more
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how old are you?
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StreetZDreaM - please elaborate.
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LOL, I Remember You Way Back On NT, Cuz Your From VA And Your Name Is Ryan Like Mine. Its Poppin Man Huuuuuuuge, Cheaper Rent, Every Store BackHome There Is At Least 4 -5 Within The City Plus A Bunch Of Hypebeast Stores, Maddd
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Yo I didnt understand that at all.....Until you edited the end
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I moved here about 3 years ago from Seattle. I love Seattle, but the Vegas move may have been the best decision I've ever made. But, I do know of a few whohave made the move and it DIDN'T pan out. Just don't get caught up in the fast life of partying and gambling, and you should be good. I party and goout A LOT, but I know my limits and keep my balance.
Vegas can be like any other city, don't take it from the perception of being here with the intent to party for 4 days straight and get no sleep. There arethings aside from the Vegas Strip.
Overall, I have a career I love (which I found out here, didn't move here FOR it) and a house of my own. I'm 27, btw...
If you need to know any specifics, feel free to hit me.
EDIT: As stated above, opportunities are EVERYWHERE out here. If you can network, you'll be set. The job I'm at now found me while working at Best Buy.
I wanted to transfer within the company to be assured of employment when I got out here...
Vegas can be like any other city, don't take it from the perception of being here with the intent to party for 4 days straight and get no sleep. There arethings aside from the Vegas Strip.
Overall, I have a career I love (which I found out here, didn't move here FOR it) and a house of my own. I'm 27, btw...
If you need to know any specifics, feel free to hit me.
EDIT: As stated above, opportunities are EVERYWHERE out here. If you can network, you'll be set. The job I'm at now found me while working at Best Buy.
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Originally Posted by NikeHolic23
I moved here about 3 years ago from Seattle. I love Seattle, but the Vegas move may have been the best decision I've ever made. But, I do know of a few who have made the move and it DIDN'T pan out. Just don't get caught up in the fast life of partying and gambling, and you should be good. I party and go out A LOT, but I know my limits and keep my balance.
Vegas can be like any other city, don't take it from the perception of being here with the intent to party for 4 days straight and get no sleep. There are things aside from the Vegas Strip.
Overall, I have a career I love (which I found out here, didn't move here FOR it) and a house of my own. I'm 27, btw...
If you need to know any specifics, feel free to hit me.
EDIT: As stated above, opportunities are EVERYWHERE out here. If you can network, you'll be set. The job I'm at now found me while working at Best Buy.I wanted to transfer within the company to be assured of employment when I got out here...
Im glad to hear it worked out for you. Im not much of a party guy anyway. Thanks for the info.
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Yea, Im Looking At Houses Right Now Too, We Had One Of The Highest Foreclosure Rates In The US Last Year, So Relatively New House Are Dirt Cheap. Don't GetCaught Up In Vegas As A Crazy Town 24/7, The Actual Town Is Huge You Can Never See The Strip And Be Satisfied With A Nice Community And Its Surrounding AreasAccommodations. The School Suck So Move When You Have Children Or Pray For A Boy All The Girls Get Knocked Up In High School According To Statistics.
But Like I Said I'm Just 21 Partying And Living It Up So I Look At This Town For All Its Worth, Across The Airport 5 Minutes From My Apartment, THE STRIP.
But Like I Said I'm Just 21 Partying And Living It Up So I Look At This Town For All Its Worth, Across The Airport 5 Minutes From My Apartment, THE STRIP.
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outside the strip is dead n hot from what ive seen. couple friends go unlv n live there after. seems alright, all bout makin connections out ther from what iveseen
that hotel management $ is pretty decent too.
what field u gettin into up?
and as far as friends, fam, from what ive seen, me and my friends visit our lv friends like once every few months just for a vegas trip so its not that far astretch/distance
that hotel management $ is pretty decent too.
what field u gettin into up?
and as far as friends, fam, from what ive seen, me and my friends visit our lv friends like once every few months just for a vegas trip so its not that far astretch/distance
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If you're not much of a party guy, you should be fine. There's plenty to do out here, and most things are 24/7.
Just be prepared for MAJOR summertime heat, if you go through with the move. It's dry with like zero humidity, so the super high temps aren't as bad asit may sound. I was used to it by my first summer here. You'll probably be a in pool or in some AC in the summertime anyway...
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Im a graphic designer.
They they tell you that SoCal has all the opportunity for creative people, designers, blah blah etc... but the market is so saturated and with the currentstate of the economy, its just been slim pickins here.
Im concerned that if I move to Vegas, I wont have as many potential design opportunities... However, Ive heard that all the casinos have their own in-housedesign houses so that may be good...
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If you're in graphic design, its hard to say. One of my closest friends graduated Graphic Design from the AI out here, and was doing well for awhile.He's also doing well now.... but as a Food and Beverage General Manager at one of the major casinos out here.
One or two companies have it pretty locked out here. If you're part of a large company that has a branch out here you're probably okay, but be carefulif its a smaller firm. The one my boy worked for had to close up shop in Vegas, because he handled all the accounts, and his boss couldn't afford to payhim anymore with no other outside accounts. Ironically, his boss closed up shop to move to SoCal and keep the operations going out there. This was a littleless than 2 years ago.
One or two companies have it pretty locked out here. If you're part of a large company that has a branch out here you're probably okay, but be carefulif its a smaller firm. The one my boy worked for had to close up shop in Vegas, because he handled all the accounts, and his boss couldn't afford to payhim anymore with no other outside accounts. Ironically, his boss closed up shop to move to SoCal and keep the operations going out there. This was a littleless than 2 years ago.
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That's what I was afraid of. Im sure there are plenty of opportunities in Vegas... whether those opportunities are in my field, well that's anotherstory.
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http://www.lasvegassun.co...-trend-leaving-las-vegas/
MOVING:
The latest trend: Leaving Las Vegas
Outbound U-Hauls, empty homes reveal transformation
Sam Morris
Suzanne Ross is helped Friday by Rene Gray at a local U-Haul store. Ross says she's moving to Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., because she couldn't find apermanent job here.
By Brian Eckhouse
Tue, Jan 6, 2009 (2 a.m.)
Sam Morris
Bob Bower, left, checks on a truck at the U-Haul store Friday for Larry Rhodes, an airplane mechanic who says he's being transferred because travel isdown.
Sun Archives
Measuring population in moving boxes (8-4-200
Slowdown offers Nevada a chance to look inward, plan for long term (12-27-200
Nevada falls to No. 8 in population growth (12-22-200
Building engineer Tyler Young moved to the Las Vegas Valley 22 years ago from Tucson. And now he's returning home.
Young, 56, said he quit his job at the College of Southern Nevada because he grew tired of months of dealing with hostile managers and regular news of salaryfreezes and layoffs.
"If I'm going to be looking for another job, I'm going to live where I want to live," Young says. "You need to go to a place where youcan better yourself and have a future. Here, it's just going down."
Young is part of the new migration trend: Clark County is now losing population, according to county officials - 10,000 from July 2007 to July 2008, based onthe number of empty houses and apartments.
U-Haul measures the trend a different way: Are there more trucks coming to town or leaving? In 2007, outbound U-Haul rentals just barely outpaced thosearriving here, the company said. In 2008 the number of outbound rentals was 1 percent greater than that of those arriving.
Among those renting U-Haul equipment in recent days to leave town was Larry Rhodes - but it wasn't his choice. He's lived in the valley for 15 years,working as an airplane mechanic, and doesn't want to move. He and his wife planned on retiring here.
But Rhodes, 59, said he is being transferred to Riverside, Calif., because air travel to Las Vegas is down. And if he wants to be employed next month, he hasto move.
"You just have to deal with it," Rhodes says crisply. "That's all you can do."
A lot of people who left town in U-Hauls were construction workers at Echelon, Boyd Gaming's partially built $4.8 billion resort that was mothballed Aug. 1for want of financing.
Over the following three weeks, Daniel Lazo recalls, construction workers flooded the U-Haul store he works at in Henderson. They were all antsy to find a newtown flush with jobs. There weren't enough trucks at that store to accommodate all of those aching for a one-way ticket out of Dodge, he says.
"If you're a working man, you go where the work is," says a 45-year-old woodworker, picking up a 40-foot trailer at a U-Haul store in North LasVegas. He refused to identify himself, saying he feared retribution from his union.
He said he's angry at Las Vegas, casino executives, just about everyone, because of the economic climate that is forcing him to move his and his wife'sbelongings back to Chicago, four years after they moved to Las Vegas. They bought a home and have a few thousand dollars saved, he says, but he's given upany hope of a future here. "I still have some money, but I'm not going to give it to this place," he said.
Dan Harden, 30, a pipe-fitter who has been without work for four months, hoped to be among those abandoning Las Vegas, where he's lived for seven years. Heplanned to move into a house with his mom in his native Los Angeles - until she lost her job. Their plans had to be scrapped. So he's renting a trailer tomove his belongings from an apartment he can no longer afford to an apartment he'll share with a friend.
In the meantime, he's still looking for a job.
Suzanne Ross, 56, on the other hand, is making a clean escape. She moved to the valley in March after getting caught up in the housing bubble that burst inSouthern California. She chose Las Vegas because of its promise of jobs. But she couldn't find a permanent job, just temporary positions at call centers -so temporary, she says, that two-month gigs were reduced to four weeks.
"I'm used to having a steady job," she says. "But that's not happening here."
And so Ross found herself at a U-Haul south of the Strip, signing papers to rent a 26-foot truck. She's moving in with her sister in Rancho Cucamonga,Calif.
As she left the building, she turned back to the U-Haul staff and customers waiting on line. "Have a happy new year!" she said cheerily. "Gottabe better than last year."
MOVING:
The latest trend: Leaving Las Vegas
Outbound U-Hauls, empty homes reveal transformation
Sam Morris
Suzanne Ross is helped Friday by Rene Gray at a local U-Haul store. Ross says she's moving to Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., because she couldn't find apermanent job here.
By Brian Eckhouse
Tue, Jan 6, 2009 (2 a.m.)
Sam Morris
Bob Bower, left, checks on a truck at the U-Haul store Friday for Larry Rhodes, an airplane mechanic who says he's being transferred because travel isdown.
Sun Archives
Measuring population in moving boxes (8-4-200
Slowdown offers Nevada a chance to look inward, plan for long term (12-27-200
Nevada falls to No. 8 in population growth (12-22-200
Building engineer Tyler Young moved to the Las Vegas Valley 22 years ago from Tucson. And now he's returning home.
Young, 56, said he quit his job at the College of Southern Nevada because he grew tired of months of dealing with hostile managers and regular news of salaryfreezes and layoffs.
"If I'm going to be looking for another job, I'm going to live where I want to live," Young says. "You need to go to a place where youcan better yourself and have a future. Here, it's just going down."
Young is part of the new migration trend: Clark County is now losing population, according to county officials - 10,000 from July 2007 to July 2008, based onthe number of empty houses and apartments.
U-Haul measures the trend a different way: Are there more trucks coming to town or leaving? In 2007, outbound U-Haul rentals just barely outpaced thosearriving here, the company said. In 2008 the number of outbound rentals was 1 percent greater than that of those arriving.
Among those renting U-Haul equipment in recent days to leave town was Larry Rhodes - but it wasn't his choice. He's lived in the valley for 15 years,working as an airplane mechanic, and doesn't want to move. He and his wife planned on retiring here.
But Rhodes, 59, said he is being transferred to Riverside, Calif., because air travel to Las Vegas is down. And if he wants to be employed next month, he hasto move.
"You just have to deal with it," Rhodes says crisply. "That's all you can do."
A lot of people who left town in U-Hauls were construction workers at Echelon, Boyd Gaming's partially built $4.8 billion resort that was mothballed Aug. 1for want of financing.
Over the following three weeks, Daniel Lazo recalls, construction workers flooded the U-Haul store he works at in Henderson. They were all antsy to find a newtown flush with jobs. There weren't enough trucks at that store to accommodate all of those aching for a one-way ticket out of Dodge, he says.
"If you're a working man, you go where the work is," says a 45-year-old woodworker, picking up a 40-foot trailer at a U-Haul store in North LasVegas. He refused to identify himself, saying he feared retribution from his union.
He said he's angry at Las Vegas, casino executives, just about everyone, because of the economic climate that is forcing him to move his and his wife'sbelongings back to Chicago, four years after they moved to Las Vegas. They bought a home and have a few thousand dollars saved, he says, but he's given upany hope of a future here. "I still have some money, but I'm not going to give it to this place," he said.
Dan Harden, 30, a pipe-fitter who has been without work for four months, hoped to be among those abandoning Las Vegas, where he's lived for seven years. Heplanned to move into a house with his mom in his native Los Angeles - until she lost her job. Their plans had to be scrapped. So he's renting a trailer tomove his belongings from an apartment he can no longer afford to an apartment he'll share with a friend.
In the meantime, he's still looking for a job.
Suzanne Ross, 56, on the other hand, is making a clean escape. She moved to the valley in March after getting caught up in the housing bubble that burst inSouthern California. She chose Las Vegas because of its promise of jobs. But she couldn't find a permanent job, just temporary positions at call centers -so temporary, she says, that two-month gigs were reduced to four weeks.
"I'm used to having a steady job," she says. "But that's not happening here."
And so Ross found herself at a U-Haul south of the Strip, signing papers to rent a 26-foot truck. She's moving in with her sister in Rancho Cucamonga,Calif.
As she left the building, she turned back to the U-Haul staff and customers waiting on line. "Have a happy new year!" she said cheerily. "Gottabe better than last year."
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You have a new opportunity in your life; I say go for it. Housing is cheaper here, and if the money's right with your new offer, why not? SoCal is a hopand a skip away, so I doubt you'd get too homesick. Hell, I used to go to LA or SD every other weekend.
A couple things that suck out here that I COMPLETELY overlooked; no pro sports team, and no water...
Aside from obviously missing your friends and fam back home, those are the two main things I don't like about Vegas. In your case, you and your crew willprobably be back and forth enough to not drift too far apart.
A couple things that suck out here that I COMPLETELY overlooked; no pro sports team, and no water...
Aside from obviously missing your friends and fam back home, those are the two main things I don't like about Vegas. In your case, you and your crew willprobably be back and forth enough to not drift too far apart.
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You know thats what im thinking... Its a new opportunity, fresh start to make something of myself. I guess I should just stop being a P about it and step upand see what happens.
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Exactly.... Thats life. Live it.
Good Luck if you go thru with it
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You will be back before you know it. I was stuck in that ces pool of a city for 5 years (worst 5 years of my life). When I moved back to Los Angeles Iliterally kissed the ground.
