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Lived there three years during COVID after rejecting LA (where I grew up) because of ridiculous cost of living, crime, traffic, etc. Vegas has problems but overall not a bad place to live.

Pros: Cheap compared to other cities. No state income tax. Good airport and air connections. Lots of deals for locals if you bother to figure out the rules (so can be cheap to eat out). Plenty of good food.

Cons: Blazing hot or freezing cold desert climate. Terrible public transportation, too hot or cold (for me) to bicycle, too spread out (and hot/cold) to walk anywhere. Lots of weirdos, drunks, pathological gamblers, scammers. Maybe some of the worst and most dangerous driving I've ever witnessed outside of SE Asia.