Maybe this isn't the right forum to post a question like this but I didn't find a reigonal forum that seemed appropriate. Nevertheless, I know that most of the DH community holds Bootleg Canyon in high reguard and interbike is in Vegas and it generates a lot of hype on the downhill forum so why not ask questions about las vegas in the downhill forum?
My wife gave me the the go ahead to start looking for a job in Vegas, rather she told me that's where she wants to move within a few years so I better find a job before she starts packing up. I've visited vegas a few times, far less than most people I suppose so I'm not really sure what to think of the area. I've known a handfull of people who live there and they say that the locals that don't work on the strip never go anywhere near it for any reason. There seems to be a pretty family oriented community and housing is looking pretty affordable in comparison to southern california.
A quick superpages search turned up several bike shops with both roadie sounding names and off roadie sounding names. Aside from bootleg canyon is there much ridding in the area? What else do people who live in Vegas do, I'm really trying to get away from the lifted pickups with Skin decals, trucker hats, high class redneck culture in So Cal. What's it really like living in Vegas, sandwitched between California the land of fruits and nuts and Utah the land of, well, having lived there as well, I'd say fruits and nuts with freezing winters and boilling summers.
I'd like to pack up and move to Oregon or Washington, finding work shouldn't be a problem there, but it's pretty far from either my wife's family or my own, which is why my wife decided Las Vegas would be best, as it sits comfortably inbetween So Cal and Wyoming, without being So Cal, Wyoming or Utah.
Any lurkers who currently live in LV, any who have lived ther who want to share some insight?
My wife gave me the the go ahead to start looking for a job in Vegas, rather she told me that's where she wants to move within a few years so I better find a job before she starts packing up. I've visited vegas a few times, far less than most people I suppose so I'm not really sure what to think of the area. I've known a handfull of people who live there and they say that the locals that don't work on the strip never go anywhere near it for any reason. There seems to be a pretty family oriented community and housing is looking pretty affordable in comparison to southern california.
A quick superpages search turned up several bike shops with both roadie sounding names and off roadie sounding names. Aside from bootleg canyon is there much ridding in the area? What else do people who live in Vegas do, I'm really trying to get away from the lifted pickups with Skin decals, trucker hats, high class redneck culture in So Cal. What's it really like living in Vegas, sandwitched between California the land of fruits and nuts and Utah the land of, well, having lived there as well, I'd say fruits and nuts with freezing winters and boilling summers.
I'd like to pack up and move to Oregon or Washington, finding work shouldn't be a problem there, but it's pretty far from either my wife's family or my own, which is why my wife decided Las Vegas would be best, as it sits comfortably inbetween So Cal and Wyoming, without being So Cal, Wyoming or Utah.
Any lurkers who currently live in LV, any who have lived ther who want to share some insight?