What is going on everyone? Let's talk about Nevada, you know that state that
has Las Vegas in it the state is normally an afterthought for anyone not
from Nevada most people just think Las Vegas as the entire state or something
it's really weird it's like nobody took a geography class from kindergarten till
college it's really strange anyway I've run into more than a few people that
thought Sin City was the actual state's nickname that's actually the Silver
State and now Las Vegas is not the state capital that's Carson City just south of
Reno Nevada is one of those places you either love or you hate there doesn't
seem to be much middle there it is a state of three million residents and
they're very defensive about this state I learned that from a video I made about
not moving to Las Vegas oh man people climbed up my butt with a microscope it
was uncomfortable Nevada has a lot going for it and it shows the United Van Lines
annual National Movers study ranked Nevada in the top 10 most moved to
States from 2010 - mm mm 19 they slipped out of the top ten - like number 12 or
something people are moving there because it is a great state and they
want to move there it's not like it's court-ordered or
anything but like all states they have their problems this video lists some of
the problems you might want to be aware of before you make that move like I
always say if you want to see all the good things about Nevada contact a real
estate agent or go to the locations tourism website it's nothing but
rainbows and sunshine they're here you're gonna get some things that you
might want to know about I'm not saying it's bad state I'm just telling you some
things you might want to know all right let's see what the Silver State is all
about number ten no rain this state doesn't see much rain Nevada has fewer
than ten inches of rain a year the national average is 28 inches here in
Oregon we see about 43 so 10 inches is dry like your mouth when your wife finds
out you have a tinder account dry even if you hate rain at some point while
living in Nevada you're going to think holy crap I don't even remember the last
time it rained in a recent video I talked about how important gardening is
to a lot of people and they won't move places where the gardening isn't good
Nevada is one of those places unless of course you're looking to grow some
award-winning cacti then yeah by all means head to the Vegas area to be fair
though it isn't the case in the Reno part of the state they get some weather
both snow and you can grow things they're about 80% of
the state though is bone-dry number nine health care the quality of
health care in Nevada is located in the bottom 20% of all the US states now it's
not the hospitals of the doctors that suck it's the amount of hospitals and
doctors they have for the size of the state Nevada is a large rural western
state other than in the southern tip with the Las Vegas metro area and the
Reno Carson area this is like the American Outback and it's outback
residents have to deal with a lot of logistical hurdles just to get health
care some places in Nevada are 3 to 4 hours away from a hospital or a doctor
which is always great news when you're having a heart attack right in the main
cities the health care is decent but in some of these dust bucket towns you may
get a medicine man or an out-of-work welder named Rudy to take out your
wisdom teeth so basically it's the places out in the boondocks that are
bringing the health care numbers down in Nevada number 8 it sucks for women if
you're a woman a new study by wallet hub suggests that you may not want to look
for that new life in the Silver State your first problem is that desert Sun
baking your skin till you look 65 on your 30th birthday it is either that or
you start buying sunblock by the gallon at Costco as soon as you move there here
in the Pacific Northwest you could buy a small 12 ounce thing of sunblock when
you're 30 and leave a half-full bottle to your kids when you pass away 50 years
later it's like a family heirloom or something like that here's some sad
stats for the ladies living in Nevada Nevada ranks 47th in gender pay gap 50th
in the unemployment rate for women 50th and female uninsured rate and 48th for
women's preventive health care whoo great numbers you know at least they're
consistent I'll give them that so if you're a woman and you move to
Nevada my suggestion is run for office and help change this place number 7
stereotypes having Las Vegas in Nevada you have to deal with a bunch of
stereotypes if you move to any place in Nevada it could be out in the sticks
and someone actually makes the connection that Nevada is actually where
Las Vegas is they will assume you're moving for three reasons number one you
have a gambling problem number two you have a drinking problem number three you
have well how do I say this that getting to monetized you have a habit that
involves paying for shall we say companion
that comes with a timer okay given I mean it is almost like people think that
those are the only three things that go on in Nevada for things if you count
buffets which are probably gone now because the COPE at 19 you could be
going to Nevada to be a social worker open up a church be a dog groomer people
are instantly going to think that you're really going there to be closer to your
addictions there is so much more to this state and its people then Las Vegas
before you move there do yourself a favor read up on the state it's got some
interesting history I mean exclude Las Vegas from that
research it's a big part of the state and it'll always be there for you but
learn that there's something outside of Sin City before you move number six
not a good place to be married besides the ease of getting married Nevada looks
like going the other direction is easy as well
the divorce rate is 50 percent higher than the national average in Nevada
again most of this happening around Las Vegas and Reno the rate is actually so
high in America's playground it drags the rest of the state down this is just
sad being married by three foot tall Elvis impersonator gone to waste now
this doesn't always happen that way I have a friend that married a girl the
same weekend he was introduced to her at another friend's wedding in Vegas they
knew each other a little bit over 48 hours and they got married at one of
those Vegas chapels the last time I talked to them about three years ago
they'd been married 12 years and everything looked fine
number five bad place to retire Nevada was ranked as the second worst place to
retire in the country in 2019 the only state that is worse is Alaska
and in Alaska you live in constant fear of being eaten by a bear hit a moose on
the highway and going to the dentist apparently Nevada should be one of the
best places for the retirement crowd it's just not it is warm
it has buffets high stakes bingo and a buttload of 55 and older communities but
Nevada is dropping the ball in a bunch of categories the two main ones are
health care options like we talked about before and violent crime they have a
high violent crime rate and it's not just in Vegas and Reno it's everywhere
in Vegas I would think a state would bend over
backwards for retirees I mean fix any problem that's keeping them away from
your state that would be like number one priority they bring money into the state
and they don't take up jobs that could be going to younger people so less
employments makes sense to me I'm sure there's a lot more that goes into it
that's just how I've always looked at it retirees are just bringing money in and
not really taking up any jobs that you know affect your unemployment rate
number four it's not for families according to the Las Vegas Sun and
wallet hub Nevada sucks is a place to raise a family besides the other stats
about divorce healthcare and crime etc etc Nevada also had the third highest
child care costs in the nation that's always good to hear when you're already
struggling you know the whole state just seems like a really bad idea of her
families but I'm sure there's some great places in the state to raise a family
stop typing thing is this there aren't that many but there is little good news
on this one in the last 10 years they've stayed between 45th and 48th place out
of 50 states in 2020 they springboarded into 40th place progress Nevada I
applaud you and to all of you who can't help leaving this type comment when I
say something like this California is not the worst I always get that all them
a bit California's the worst no they're not they're actually 17th place number
three education if you have kids and you care
about their education Nevada may be a state you scratch off your list of
places to relocate buy a home rent a place talk to a realtor whatever scratch
it off your list besides the comical fact that most the
schools in the Las Vegas area have the architecture that closely resembles
prison Nevada as a whole comes in as one of the worst states when it comes to
schools now about that prison thing I did read one thing and I'm not sure if
it was real or not that the same people that designed all the schools also
designed all the prisons in the state which would totally make sense but I
don't know if that's real enough I tried to look it up couldn't really find
anything on it now I've read several reports on the education system in
Nevada in a few of them they were ranked 49th place and in others they were 45th
or 46 it just depends on what stats they were looking at either way this spells
out sucks with a capital X and for those of you who went to Nevada schools sucks
isn't spelt with an x in 2019 they had a nine percent dropout rate that's the
second lowest in the nation you know who they beat Louisiana come on Nevada what
the hell they have a bunch of other near bottom-of-the-barrel stats about test
scores and things like that in Gen Nevada's not a great place for your kids
to get educated number two there's almost nothing here Nevada is a big
barren wasteland of boredom depression and heat you have Vegas the Reno area
and an Air Force Base that the tinfoil hat crowd thinks his store in green men
by the way who else knew that that raid on area 51 was gonna be a giant nothing
burger after that you have long stretches of bad road trips and nothing
to see I've driven across the state a few times twice from Salt Lake to Reno
through the northern section of the state and three times from Los Angeles
hit Vegas then on to st. George and Zion National Park and I can tell you
wherever you're going that goes through Nevada take a train a plane and never an
automobile after Vegas Lake Mead maybe Reno and Lake Tahoe I guess this place
looks like Mars and you'll have an overwhelming urge to get out of the car
and drop off supplies for Matt Damon if you're a dirt and rock enthusiast this
place is for you but for the rest of us that haven't been dropped on our heads
it is a barren landscape that sucks unless you have an ATV or dirt bike and
number one the people now when I say the people I'm not really referring to the
actual residents of Nevada I'm talking about the millions of people that visit
the state every single year something about this state makes people lose
common sense and any self control they may have had before they got there I've
seen some people do some of the stupidest stuff in Reno and Vegas one
girl I know worked a sports bar while she was going to school she said every
businessman from middle America is under the assumption that any girl working in
Vegas is also a working girl in Vegas if you know what I mean as far as the
residents go the ones I know I love and they're great people the people who wind
and cried in my top ten reasons not to move to Vegas video a couple years back
they're a special breed I'm sure some of them will show up in the comments
section of this video they are insanely proud and defensive of this state
probably a little too defensive but yeah the worst thing about Nevada is the
tourists they're just rough and I've been one of them and I've done some
stupid stuff when I was in my 20s in Vegas and Reno but yeah every time I go
there I'm just amazed at human beings and how they get to hurt they are it's
strange anyway
all right so that's today's video I hope you guys liked it hope you got some
information out of it Nevada is a great state with great people so don't get me
wrong I'm just pointing out some things you should know before you decide to
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