# Thinking about moving to Nevada **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 19, 2013, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640 "2013-10-19T09:39:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/21 "2013-10-22T00:16:48Z")
I didn’t know you moved to Las Vegas, **Diosa** ; welcome to the valley! ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/22 "2013-10-22T02:24:11Z")
Hows the Reno/Carson city area? Great deals on real estate around there, but the maps im looking at say its still desert. Edit: heh see it partially answered above. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/23 "2013-10-22T04:19:47Z")
[Mix](http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/35/4e/c5/dl-bliss-at-lake-tahoe.jpg) [of](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Carson_city_nevada_capitol.jpg) [nearby](http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Fly-Geyser-in-the-Black-Rock-Desert-Nevada.jpg) or [representative](https://www.google.com/search?biw=1680&bih=853&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=reno&btnG=#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=uCIaskQU_uYZYM%3A%3BCZ_jizK9FqLPCM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Frmmla.innoved.org%252Fconferences%252Fconf08Reno%252FImages%252FAerial_Reno_Skyline.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Frmmla.innoved.org%252Fconferences%252FConf08Reno%252Fdefault.asp%3B3336%3B2207) [pictures](http://earths-beauty.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Great_Basin_Desert_3.jpg). I wish the tourist board would pay me. [Deserts get precipitation](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=450343), although this thread might be a bit much (last two winters were anemic). Reno is more of a smaller town. I’ve been out with locals and they randomly run into people they went to high school with or similar. But both cities have lots of migration. (Sorry, the image GreaseMonkey script doesn’t handle this well!) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/24 "2013-10-22T05:23:17Z")
**NEVADA** School-shooting Free since… Ah, Fuck! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/25 "2013-10-22T05:31:26Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Hows the Reno/Carson city area? Great deals on real estate around there, but the maps im looking at say its still desert. Fucking Awsome, answering the first question. In regards to the following comment, I’ll regale you with two very popular bumper stickers seen in the area: \*RURAL NEVADA: LEAVE IT THAT WAY NEVADA: We don’t much care how you did it in California.\* You like the city? Stay there. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/26 "2013-10-22T19:31:07Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Fucking Awsome, answering the first question. In regards to the following comment, I’ll regale you with two very popular bumper stickers seen in the area: > > \*RURAL NEVADA: LEAVE IT THAT WAY > > NEVADA: We don’t much care how you did it in California.\* > > You like the city? Stay there. Also “Nevaduh” or similar bumper stickers. It means: if you move here, (hell, even if you don’t), learn how to pronounce the state. Oregon, too. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/27 "2013-10-28T02:58:08Z")
Another couple of questions about the Reno and Carson Valley areas: 1. Are there dangers from wildfires in the suburbs or towns? 2. How about earthquakes? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/28 "2013-10-28T03:09:27Z")
1)Suburbs. Caughlin Ranch and south of there normally. And of course smoke everywhere after that big one. 1. I haven’t felt one since, oh 2008? It’s a disaster that potentially exists, but it’s not California-level. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/29 "2013-10-28T03:14:57Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Hows the Reno/Carson city area? Great deals on real estate around there, but the maps im looking at say its still desert. > > Edit: heh see it partially answered above. High desert…we got green here:D happy Nevada Day ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/30 "2013-10-28T20:10:19Z")
> [@computergeek](#): > > Another couple of questions about the Reno and Carson Valley areas: > > 1. Are there dangers from wildfires in the suburbs or towns? > 2. How about earthquakes? Yes to both. Just like pretty much everywhere else. There is a known fault running thru the area. Get snow, too! Like, last night! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/31 "2013-10-28T21:23:08Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yes to both. Just like pretty much everywhere else. There is a known fault running thru the area. > > Get snow, too! Like, last night! 😃 I guess I should have asked, do these occur with regularity? As for the snow, from what I read, it sounds like it would be less than Montana typically gets (and maybe even Maryland at times) and it doesn’t stay very long. Is that correct? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/32 "2013-10-28T22:50:29Z")
Fire: last two summers, but not much to worry about Earthquake: don’t worry. People who live in in SF or Seattle or perhaps New Orleans(?) don’t worry that they’re living in natural disaster areas. Snow: So light the last few years that people buying season ski passes are wasting their money. [Heavier some days](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=450343). What **Gatopescado** means is that the mountains got it, and by my house it melted before it hit the ground (dog still acted like a big baby). Never been to Montana but almost certainly less. Usually it will snow for a day or too then sit on the ground as it melts or gets ugly and gray. Also people generally suck at driving in the snow. I have no snow tires and I only used my chains once, albeit in the middle of town just to get up the (shallow) hill. ---
**Author:** ![HookerChemical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@HookerChemical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HookerChemical)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/33 "2013-10-29T00:20:20Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > High desert…we got green here:D happy Nevada Day Shall I take it from your well wishes that you’re a new Nevadan. In my heart, it will always be October 31. I grew up in Northern Nevada and went to college in Reno. I’ll add that they have a great mining program, in addition to the Journalism school. Climate in Northern Nevada is high desert. Summers are hot (100F highs), winters are cold (single digit F lows). It’s usually dry, but it can get dumped on and flood or accumulate 3 feet of snow in a day. Big precipitation events are the exception, however, and nothing that can’t be dealt with. Wildfires aren’t typically a concern in the well developed parts of the cities. 95% of Carson City or Reno will have nothing to worry about. I wouldn’t worry too much about an earthquake. They’re relatively rare, but they can get something in the 5-6 range. In all the years I lived there, I felt two earthquakes, and one was the Loma Prieta Quake in San Francisco. (To be fair, I was on vacation during the 6-ish one that occurred during the time I lived there.) A 4 or 5 is no big deal at all unless you live in a house balanced on a pyramid. I’m partial to Reno because there’s more going on in the bigger city, but Carson City and the Carson Valley are quite pleasant. I can’t speak much for Vegas. I’ve only been there briefly. It’s hotter and rarely gets snow. UNLV has a great hotel management program. They beat Nevada this weekend in football, but that’s the exception to the rule in recent years. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640/34 "2013-10-29T21:09:07Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Snow: So light the last few years that people buying season ski passes are wasting their money. It hasn’t been that bad! Not like the glorious 80’s, but not that bad. And the new generation of snow-making is nothing short of incredible. A pass at Heavenly pays for itself in about 4 days. I grew up in the mountains and with the exception of one rare oddity, the only time I had to put chains on was in Minden! Not too swift to plow down there. By the way: its snowing as I type. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-moving-to-nevada/671640.md?page=1)