What it's REALLY Like Living in Las Vegas!

so you may think living in Las Vegas is like this this it's really like this and this hey guys it's Ruby and six months ago my husband and I sold all of our stuff drove across the country and moved to Las Vegas today I'm going to be sharing with you all of my experiences and what it is really like to live in Las Vegas [Music] so let's just start right away by talking about the process of moving to Las Vegas we ended up driving about 1800 miles across the country we went through Iowa Nebraska Colorado which I have to say Colorado is the most beautiful place to drive through ever but also the most terrifying if you know you know now the movers did come with our stuff later on and I have to say we had a really bad experience they lost all of our stuff and broke things and I think when all is said and done with moving it cost us around five or six thousand dollars and that was before we ended up buying all new stuff so it was definitely pretty pricey now we are renting the home that we're in right now we knew right off the bat we weren't going to want to try to buy a house before coming out here we definitely want to take our time to find a home and be here a while before we decided what neighborhood we wanted to be in I'm very happy with our place we rented a four bedroom house we have an office space it's massive compared to the flat that we had back in Milwaukee uh the cat is loving the space as well say hi Kiki say hi to the camera let's talk about cost of living a little bit in Las Vegas we initially did look at apartments when we were coming to move here and we noticed they were like anywhere between 1500 to 2500 because you're paying for like a pool and a gym and ultimately we decided to go with the house route because you get so much more for your money and houses here anywhere between two and three thousand dollars to rent we're kind of right in the middle of that electricity seems to be pretty much the same I'm very curious how it will be once it gets very hot and to air condition the house but our gas is way less than it was in Wisconsin because we barely needed to use heat let's move on to talking about our neighborhood specifically now there are a lot of good neighborhoods all around Las Vegas we were told you definitely want to be in Summerlin and most people are going to be either in Henderson or in Summerlin or the Spring Valley area when you think of Las Vegas you basically just think of the strip and that like City looking atmosphere with all like the pylons and everything but it is not like that at all once you get off strip the mountains are so breathtakingly beautiful if we step outside and just look out you can see them and they feel like they're right on top of you and they're just so pretty especially when you have the Red Rock mountains and all the different colors and even through the winter with the snow on the top you just feel very peaceful out here there's gorgeous parks and places you can walk you can't go 10 feet without hitting a shopping center any business you can think of off the top of your head right now I guarantee there's one within five to ten minutes of us every restaurant we could think of any sort of supplies or anything we needed we did not have to drive far at all to get to it's actually easy to see why people don't go to the strip now that we live here because there is so much we can do just out here for example we live right by Rampart and Suncoast those are our local casinos that we like to frequent Tivoli Village is right by us and absolutely absolutely beautiful shopping center with some really great dining options in there we're not far from Red Rock and Downtown Summerlin and again Downtown Summerlin is basically just shopping and dining and there's some really excellent restaurants in there as well so you could gamble eat dine go out and never leave Summerlin there's so much to do one thing that was tough for us was having totally different grocery stores that was an adjustment we like WinCo the best you're gonna find the absolute cheapest prices at WinCo one thing to note though is they do not take credit cards which is frustrating because we do like to get our points they also have Trader Joe's really nearby and I love Trader Joe's one a huge plus though no tax on groceries here in Nevada let's talk about another big adjustment and that was driving nothing is super far here in Las Vegas and most things are within a 20 minute drive Henderson is the farthest week drive and it's like 30 min minutes or so so pretty easy to get around and the freeway systems are really easy there are two major ones and that's like the 215 which kind of goes in a circle around Las Vegas and the I-15 that's the big one that's the one that's gonna drive right next to the strip and that is the one everybody takes and that's the one that gets really crazy busy rush hour is a thing here but again if you're from those big major cities the rush hour is not gonna feel that crazy to you when we first moved people told us to watch out for the real scary drivers the crazy drivers I don't see quite as many of those as I see the other type of driver which are people that are going five even 10 miles under the speed limit I have never seen that we lived an hour outside of Chicago so people drove like they were on a mission to get somewhere and people here do not drive like that I also have never seen a cop radar in here the entire time we have lived here and that is very strange to me in Wisconsin you can't go more than a few blocks without finding a cop monitoring the roads and here they do not do that the highways are kind of a free-for-all having a car here is more expensive than back home in Wisconsin gas prices are really expensive it's the West Coast so I think if you're from this area you might be used to that but registering your car is also going to be a huge shock I think back home in Wisconsin to register a car was like a hundred and fifty dollars or something like that we paid 425 dollars to register our vehicle this year that was pretty alarming Insurance also costs more out here I'm guessing it has something to do with all of the accidents there are some things I've noticed that feel very uniquely Las Vegas for example you're going to find slot machines in the grocery stores and you're gonna find them at the gas stations also the gas stations are called Terrible's and I think that is so funny I don't know why they're called that that is such a weird name for a gas station alcohol sales are also totally different here it depends on the state you live in but back home you cannot buy alcohol after 9 00 pm and here it is a free-for-all you can buy it anytime you want 24 hours a day one thing I will say if you go out in the mornings early it's like a ghost town people don't get up the same time here that they do back in the midwest so if you're out at like 7 A.M expect it to just be like absolutely dead out on the roads I don't feel like they start picking up until like 10 o'clock it seems like so just in general the mentality on the west coast is totally different I feel like in the midwest area like being on time time and getting where you need to go and being there promptly is very important it's kind of like time is of the essence don't waste it and out here things feel a lot more chill people are just not really in a rush I feel like we just noticed a lot more people cutting it just taking their time definitely a mentality shift for us and something that I hope we kind of adopt more of because we're definitely people who get really stressed out about being late another huge difference for us is that Las Vegas is such a new city now obviously like the first Casino was built here in 1905 but there was like nothing around it for reference our house that we lived in in Milwaukee was built in 1890 and they didn't start developing Summerlin to live in until 1990. you lose a little bit of that old charm and that old history you're not gonna have as good luck antiquing out here in Nevada that you will back home in the midwest I want to talk about a few Pros for us and a few cons these are obviously very specific to our situation but they might be helpful to you guys first thing no state tax this is huge for us not having to pay state tax saves us so much money we just filed our taxes for this year and we still had to pay for Wisconsin and I cannot wait until next year we're gonna save a ton better health insurance oh my gosh again we're independent contractors which means we just have to pay for our insurance out of pocket moving here for just a couple hundred more bucks we were able to get like a silver plan with all these amazing benefits and super low deductibles and let's talk about a few cons let's talk about a few things that we noticed that we don't like living here internet that's a huge one there are only a couple of internet companies out here the best one is Cox internet and we have one gig download speed which is really good but only like 30 megabyte upload speed for most of you that probably doesn't matter but with how much we upload to the Internet it's terrible it slows us down so much it has really caused problems for us to get our uploads up and it's been a huge pain sales tax here is 8.3 percent it's really high now like I said you don't have to pay tax on groceries and there's no state tax so they get you in other ways when you buy other things it's definitely higher than what we're used to oh man if you come here and you were gambling lot you're gonna lose all of your comps I hate to say it but as soon as you're a local all those like free room offers those are gone they're gonna give you discounts and you're still gonna get like free play and food and beverage but they're not treating you the same as when you were traveling I don't know what it is but they just they don't want to give the locals the free rooms and overall I feel like there's a lot of positives to living in Las Vegas the weather of being a huge one and before you make a comment about how I'm going to be wishing for Colder Weather you are dead wrong I cannot wait for it to be 100 degrees I am going to be so happy [Music] [Music] so how has living in Las Vegas changed my perspective being a local versus a tourist well first of all I have to say we still love the strip however it does become kind of like a full day experience when we come down here and we don't find ourselves down here that often because there's so many other places we can go and so much other content we can make I am really glad that we were tourists as long as we were because the perspective is just totally different waking up every day on strip and spending a week long here really is a different perspective than being able to just drive home and be 20 minutes away I still love it I just love it a little differently and I feel like having both perspectives has been so helpful now that we're locals I feel like we know a lot more about driving and parking which on strip isn't so bad but downtown there is zero free parking it is really Troublesome I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you're considering moving to Las Vegas I hope you found it helpful see you guys all in my next video [Music]

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Length: 11min 42sec (702 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 11 2023