Yes, more LV digging:

Las Vegas is right for you IF…

You are young, single and want to party. When you tell people you live in Vegas, their eyes light up because they think of the strip. You will not be living in that world. However, if you are of an age that you want to experience some hot clubs any day of the week, then this may be a great place to live. It’s not that hard to find a low-responsibility job and lots of people who want to drink and gamble.

You are do not have a college degree. I don’t mean this as a dig, but having a degree here is generally not needed. You can make big money for essentially unskilled labor. Waiting jobs here (and it’s acceptable to be older) can make up to $100k a year. No joke. There are many opportunities in service industries related to the growth also – pool cleaning, extermination, lawn care, etc..

Convenience is more important than culture. Near me is a shopping center that is across the street from another center with four mirror stores (PetSmart/Petco, Borders/Barnes & Noble, Office Depot/Max, Linens ‘N’ Things/Bed Bath & Beyond. There are five grocery stores, four drug stores and six Starbucks within a 1 1/2 mile radius of my house (including ‘Bucks in grocery stores).

You are a time traveler. Got a good job here and moving here? Can afford a swank house at $500k? Expect that alot of you neighbors are one of the above – servers, bartenders, pool cleaners and construction workers. Oh, they also own several homes in the city. If you lived here five years ago, you bought that house for $175k. Keep in mind, that your house is that quality of construction, too, and it will look the same as every other house in the ‘hood. It’ll be beige too. Your real estate agent, who completed a three week course for his/her license, owns five homes. Okay with that? I live in one such neighborhood and there are (no joke) eight white trucks on my street alone. I find it funny the people who’ve lived here 10+ years complaining about how it’s changed while they’ve watched their property value triple as a result.

You like monster trucks. I originally come from a farming area and I’ve NEVER seen so many pickups and SUVs as I do here? Why? It’s a state of mind. It’s a place where THAT is the desirable vehicle to own. That also tells you about priorities and how people feel about the environment. Oh, also, LV is #1 in the country for car theft.

You are in construction. Well, you may need to be a time traveler too, because the jury is out on whether the boom is over.

Other things:

Relative to its population, there is very little art and culture here. There is a small area downtown (read: the place you don’t go) that has an arts area, but any population this size is bound to attract some artists.

Everything is manufactured, master planned is desirable and there’s no history. “Desert landscaping” means that your front lawn is gravel.

People fancy themselves as sophisticated here by association with the glamour of the strip. But by and large, they’re not. Ack, I could go on and on. Also, yeah there’s a growing silicone/surgery presence – but it’s B grade. The “beautiful” people are reality-show beautiful. Stripper-billboard beautiful.