Why do you live where you live?

I probably could not afford to buy a house there.........
Anyone have a good link to realestate in the US so I can have a look please?

 

http://www.greatlasvegashomes.com/

I'm sure you can find some affordable places... if you really want to get here you could just come and get a job and rent an apartment. You'd have to give up life with a 348 for a while but I'm sure you would get settled very soon.

 

Thanks for the link. Will have a look now. Why would I have to give up the 348?? NEVER!

 

Is that it?? The ones for US$350K are VERY affordable. I am still thinking about buying a house on the water on the Gold Coast. Around AU$800K+. I probably wont just yet now, till I decide what I want to do. Around world trip 1st ect...... I thought all homes in Las Vegas would be ultra expensive. These 3 are cheap. Are they nice areas you reckon? The houses are similar to what I live in now. Actually, my house is worse.

http://www.greatlasvegashomes.com/las_vegas_new_homes_index.htm

http://www.greatlasvegashomes.com/las_vegas_new_homes_index.htm

http://www.greatlasvegashomes.com/las_vegas_homes/5504_gulf_springs.htm

 

Mt. Isa S 20˚ 45'

Dallas N 32˚ 50'

Boston N 42˚ 20'

 

Only the luxury condos right on the strip and the Summerlin area are known for being very expensive. Henderson and many areas 20-30 minutes away from the strip are very nice. Right in the middle of town everything is much older, you can find cheap places, but you might be afraid to walk around after dark. Typically though, Vegas is very very cheap compared to places like California. Most of the people moving here are people from California that realize they can sell their old dump houses for a big new one here... they just trade the beach for the desert.

 

In English please Doc. I dont understand......

 

Any California realestate links? I know what you mean about selling an old place for a new bigger place for the same money. But I wouldnt trade the beach for the desert though.
I should buy an investment property there in the US. What is the rental market like there? I got to get out of here. I am still waiting for Noah to take me in........

 

Mt Isa is 22% of the way from the equator to the poll.

Dallas, TX is 36%

Boston, MA is 46%

 

So...........Mount Isa is closest? I still dont get it.

 

Yep..... It's 20 degrees below the equator and the locations I listed in the US are 32 and 42 degrees above the equator. Each degree of Latitude is equal to 60 nautical miles..... so roughly speaking Mt Isa is 1200 south of the equator, Dallas is 1920 miles north of the equator and Boston is 2520 miles north.

 

I was thinking about getting a place in Summerlin or Queensridge then my hosts all reminded me that I have 4 Penthouses already(NYNY, Caesars, Bellagio, and Palms)....Every Thurs-Sunday Vegas turns into LA pt 2. Rehab at Hard Rock<<<<crazy times

I spend alot of time in vegas, for awhile it was at least 1 week a month and I started to get tired of it after my last trip. So Cal is the place to be

 

Very cool.

 

Pap, see realtor.com for listings all over.

Chase - do you live in Turnberry?

 

I used to live in Vancouver, BC but moved more into the interior of the province both because of family and I was getting into some gang trouble in school. I now live and work in a 100k pop town (Kelowna) and I'll either stay here for a while or move to an even smaller town. I miss certain aspects of the big city but it isn't worth living in one again.

 

Cheers buddy.

 

Nope, I am over by UNLV. Not quite as nice as Turnberry, I am supposed to be a poor college student for the time being.

 

No prob, I was just asking because of the view. I know some other early-20's ppl who live in their family's condos there so I thought maybe your parents had a place.

As for Mike's question - leaving grad school, we had recruiters with offices worldwide - between law firms, non-profits, gov't and consulting you could go almost anywhere if you really pushed for it. I remember that on the first day of orientation they said, "you can go anywhere in the world" after finishing the program, and I thought of Monaco, because I had just been and was very impressed with the Riviera.

Most law students pick a place first and then find openings in their target area. It seems most of my MBA friends look for the best opportunity rather than being set on a certain city or state. I did the latter, and went with what appeared to have the most potential... which meant turning down Las Vegas for Milwaukee, WI. I've lived in a few different countries and travelled a fair bit and do still have the travel bug, but with two kids already I was encouraged to think about something more liveable.

I liked Vegas for the huge growth, weather, small core of young professionals (and not terribly difficult to get tapped in), lux goods and restaurants and super easy living (drive anywhere, park anywhere, traffic relatively light for a big city); things against were overpriced homes, weak K-12 schools, many poseurs and wannabe hustlers, crime and my possibly irrational concerns about fresh water in the long term. While the suburbs are really conservative and I actually know many families with well-adjusted kids, I still was unsettled about having young boys there - I just don't want them to grow up thinking the "Sin City" stuff is normal. Even then, it was ultimately a better job opportunity that drew us away rather than the city itself.

So instead of living somewhere exotic or costly the idea is to settle down in the affordable Midwest and get serious about building up equity, then get property and travel whereever we want.

 

I was born here; 4th generation in a city where that is a great rarity. I enjoy living in the most powerful city in the most powerful nation on the face of the earth, simply put. I constantly draw energy from the city. Love it, wouldn't live anywhere else.

 

Yes, that's exactly how Vegas is right now, and it's really tough to describe it to people who only know it as wild weekend trips to the strip.

Unlucky for me, my parents had no interest in a Vegas condo, so my place just for me to get through school right now.

Send me a PM next time you are coming to Vegas if you want to meet up for lunch or a drink or something. I haven't been here long and I am working on meeting more of the young professional crowd.

 

I live here beacuse that's where all my stuff is. I've found that it's easier to live where your stuff is.

Acutally I was born and raised in Michigan and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I like the season changes (in my humble opinion there should ALWAYS be snow in Christmas) and in liking season changes I like living in a truly 4 season state...80 and sunny everyday is nice for vacation, but you southern Cali folks can keep it for everyday.

Skiing, boating, hunting and golfing have turned parts of Michigan into vacation destinations and all of these things are a few short minutes from my house. They also say that in Michigan no resident is more than 5 miles from a body of water and no more than a hundred miles from a Great Lake.

These will give you a sense of Michigan's changing climate
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Yeah, I lived in Hawaii for a while too and it was the same deal - visitors and family rarely understood what living there entailed. I loved it and really miss it, but there are many reasons for a young professional to choose somewhere else, low growth and ridiculously bad salaries being the main deterrents. When we have money we'd like to go back to Hawaii, planning on doing so when we retire.

I'll be back in Vegas next month to get our stuff, I'll send a PM.

 

I've lived in MO for all but a few months of my life (spent a bit of time living in CO). The major attractions are my family, my wife's family, very low cost of living, having 4 seasons, low crime rates and a semi-rural environment.

I really want to spend some time living in Montana, but that has not been practical for me thus far in life.

 

Grew up on a farm in Shelbyville, KY about 30 miles East of Louisville. When I was a teenager I swore when I left home I would never live on a farm again and would never throw another bail of hay. Not only did I come back I bought the house right next to my parents and now that my father passed away I run the farm. Bailed about 7500 bails of hay last summer not to mention straw. I don't want to live any place else now. My father used to laugh and tell me that I would one day want to come back to a farm. Never say never.

 

I grew up in a small town in NE Ohio (Massillon). Moved to Dallas when I was 21. Moved to Seattle when I was 26. Moved to San Jose when I was 31. Moved to Los Angeles when I was 36. Moved to Las Vegas when I was 37. Moved to Tucson (Oro Valley) when I was 39. Now we're getting ready to move to a very remote town at the Arizona/New Mexico boarder...population about 200. We purchased 180 acres of land and are really looking forward to just getting away. My wife and I love living in the desert. From the "dry" heat of the early summer to the crazy monsoon thunderstorms in August to the mild winters without too much drama. Plus, we have room to do all of the things we like to do...wide open roads with beautiful scenery for driving...plenty of land for horses...wide open spaces and trails for quad riding...dark skies for astronomy...great sunrises and sunsets...excellent hiking...loads of wildlife (if you like rattlesnakes, tarantulas, javelina, coyotes, lizards, road runners, turkey vultures, bobcats, etc.).

1st picture is our old view from Vegas. 2nd picture is the current view from inside our house. 3rd picture is the future view at the new house. 4th picture is the view at night from the new house.

Steve
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