I visited Las Vegas last Week and I like it. Im thinking about moving there because I m tired of living in LA. The cost of living is to high. I just want some info from people that have been there for a couple of years that can tell how much to expect to pay for rent, bills, gas and what neighborhoods to stay away from.
Lots of answers...but NO ONE answered your question(s)....wow, our education across America must really suck ...maybe my small town education and further years in college paid off for Yahoo answers!!! LOLLas Vegas can be whatever YOU, the individual, want to make it...or are willing to work hard enough to make it become for you!!You can be the 7-nite-a-week party person...brushing up with celebrities - You can be the food connoisseur dining at some of the most fabulous restaurants in the world - You can see all the shows, lounges, headliners, special concerts, after-parties, etc .........OR.........You can live a normal life, just like in any other town in America, or pretty darn similar. As a town of approx TWO MILLION people that spreads out for about 45 mins of a drive in any direction from the strip...there is a HUGE amount of normal city lifestyle here. Yes, many people work in the casinos, restaurants, shows, etc on the strip ...but even more don t. But ALL of them have to buy groceries, gas, rent apartments or hire handymen, buy tires, grab fast food on the corner, use daycare and send their kids to school...all the normal stuff. My wife runs a fairly big convention (about 14,000 attendees), so one week a year we stay on the strip, other times we go to meetings, dinners, shows, charity events, etc at various properties...beyond that...the other 95% of our lives are spent going to our respective offices (NOT on the strip!) picking up our kids, helping them with homework, taking them to KungFu or soccer or ? and living the normal life .I usually say The first 2 or 3 years someone lives in Vegas, they are still a tourist...going to the clubs, seeing all the latest shows, spending most of their free time in the casinos, etc. After that they finally settle-in to normal life...and if they don t...they end up moving away because they..1) thought they d get rich quick and didn t2) developed a vice that wasn t good to have in Vegas (gambling, drinking, drugs, etc)3) had some other problem they would have had issues with anywhere but needed to move back home to deal with.Actual Answer to your question(s)...Yes, the cost of living in Vegas is MUCH cheaper than L.A, in prices of gas, taxes, real estate, etc etcRent, assuming you mean one bedroom apartments...can be in the $600 up to $1200 or more...depends on the neighborhood (amount of crime or location of exciting/nicer places)...and of course 1 br or 2 or 3? Of course roommate deals and low income areas can lower prices too!Bills, also depends on you...in an apartment, shouldn t be much...but you can always buy basic cable instead of digital w/hundreds of channels, etcGas, pretty cheap here...compared to L.A./California (used to live there)...even though rates do keep going up several pennies at a time...it s still cheaper than California!!!Don t live TOO close to the strip, there are exceptions, but as a general rule...it s either expensive high rise condos...or very low income and high crime areas...general rule...avoid streets with only a Letter or only a Number. But depending on what street it s off of...a few blocks away are not bad.
MJM is a useless tool that brands himself as connected . If hanging from a noose is considered connected then; yes, he s connected. A fool would follow his advice! A fool would choose MJM as best answer. Come on out, this town will eat you alive and I can t wait to see that happen. Report Abuse
Visiting Vegas and living here are two different things. This happens a lot. People move here thinking they will have the same feeling living here as they do when they visit. Big let down. When you have to get up and go to work every day. When you have to pay bills and the phone rings just like it did before moving here, the bubble bursts and disappointment sets in. The lack of greenery actually becomes a factor. I am from Ohio where everywhere you look there is something green growing there. You should read this webpage for what it is like living here in Vegas.
I ve met lots of people from LA over the years as I ve lived in Las Vegas. Most of the LA people usually complain that Las Vegas isn t LA. No kidding. You can t find a job here, run out of money, start gambling and then blame it on Vegas. Californians just don t like anything about Vegas once they settle down here and most of you end up moving right back to LA. The grass is always greener...If you can afford $900 for a bed your neighbors will likely be somewhat decent people. Anything less than that and you end up getting violent wannabe gangsters and pimps in your neighborhood. Jobs are incredibly hard to find. If you have a job in LA--keep it! Minimum wage out here is $7.25 and employers expect you to bleed for them if they pay $9. But, it really doesn t matter as when there is a job opening about 500 people show up for that one job. The economy here sucks. It s as if Las Vegas is having a 75% off sale on all the attractions, hotels, etc just to get tourists in and the residents are stuck picking up the rest of the tab. This is NOT a good time to move.
Have you only visited once? After visiting 18 times, my impression of Las Vegas is that it s exactly like LA except in the desert and instead of Disneyland there s the Las Vegas strip.The worst neighborhoods are near Las Vegas Blvd. north of Sahara Ave. and North Las Vegas. A nice 1 BR apartment in a nice area should cost around $750 per month. Cost of living should be comparable to suburban Los Angeles areas except for the anomalies like Malibu and Beverly Hills.
If you consider Vegas as casinos, gambling and shows, you are missing the real Vegas. The advertised Vegas is for the tourists or those who think that they can always act like tourists. We who live here do not get involved in that scene except as work. The real excitement is in the national parks that surround Las Vegas. Just to name a few: Red Rock, Lake Mead, Valley of Fire, even a ski area in the winter. Explore them before you come by looking at VegasNature.com Besides they are a lot less expensive to visit.I have lived in Vegas for 8 years now and love it. I just visited LA where I used to live. I feel that it has lost it charm. Traffic, takes a forever to get anywhere that you want to go, cost of living, for example gas is a half buck more in LA . Much of the town has deteriorated into a slum.
I know its generally cheaper to live out there.But just so you know the only thing in Vegas is VEGAS itself and NOTHING else. You will soon tire out that only vegas and nothing else. Nothing but desert and everythings far from everything. NEED a car to live there. BORING.....Move to like New York or something.I ll stay here in LA! :D
Its cheaper than la. That s why the majority of the people here are from there. I m from the east coast so I hate it here. But la people are the ones who made it boring so u might love it. Stay away from the streets that are just letters everywhere else is fine
Four decades and I still love Vegas. But the cost of living is similar to LA and we have 14% unemployment and growing. Best zip 89117, worst 89109
Don t come. There is almost no money here. Some things are cheap, but it doesn t matter because you will not have any money.
Dry, hot, dead and no vegetation... and it s boring... there s a reason L.A. is more expensive...
GET YOUR *** HERE I LIVE HERE NO BIGGY IN TRYING TO TALK MY WHOLE FAMILY INTO COMING HERE GET IT DONE
Boring, hot, and dull.
NO JOBS VERY HOT IN THE SUMMER AND EXPENSIVE I LIVED HERE 19 YRS