The Raw Unfiltered Truth of Living in Vegas. By a Vegas Local 

A las Vegas high school teacher warned me 20 years ago to be very careful who I meet in Las Vegas, more than any other city in America.

That 2pm-5pm heat is something 🥵

We have lived here for 3.5 years and absolutely love it. We all have different experiences, thank you for sharing yours. As far as the heat goes, allow me to quote the great Sam Kinison- “ITS THE F$&KING DESERT! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU EXPECT?” ❤️😍

Steven, you ROCK. Love your commentaries, very straight and to-the-point.

Thanks for keeping it real. Your honesty is appreciated even if some viewers dont like it. Las Vegas is like most cities, good & bad.

Just moved back to Cali after renting a room in Vegas for a year. Was going back and forth weekly as I kept my weekend job in Cali. Didn't see many insects and never a scorpion. Gf didn't see one in the almost 6 years there. No snakes either but many in Cali. Seen 3 rattler's in NorCal and one hiking below Griffith Observatory right before it reopened long ago. One of the positives that connects to the opportunities you mentioned is it's exciting there. If you're bored you can hit numerous places that have people out enjoying themselves and that energy can rub off on you both good and bad but it's exciting. =)

Vegas is definitely a unique place. Couldn’t imagine living there. My ex and I would visit multiple times a year up until Covid lockdown. Doesn’t seem the same since

Steven, thank you for being DIFFERENT!!

Great helpful Video Sir. I watched it all and enjoyed your insights on Vegas.

😊😊😊great video. I came here first time in June of 1965. Visited here 565 times before retiring here almost 4 years ago. I LOVE Las Vegas but you have to learn how to MANAGE Las Vegas!

I am a subscriber and I do enjoy your video's. 100% of what you speak about is true, our family lived there from '69 through '82. I've been back a few times over the years, it's changed quite a bit. Thanks for sharing!

News flash: Las Vegas public schools have always been bad. Not just since weed was legalized. Nevada single biggest industry is gaming and Nevada has the lowest gaming tax rate by far in the U.S. at 6.75%. The public schools have always been underfunded, this is a self inflicted problem. The strip casinos are in unincorporated Clark County, this is not by accident.

I moved here two in a half years ago and I have to agree Vegas is an introverts worst nightmare.

Thanks for that, it was very enlightening. I’ve been vacationing in Las Vegas for the past thirty years. I agree with you that things have changed, and have become crazier, and not in a good way. I used to dream about living in Las Vegas full time. Not anymore. I just visit, and that’s good enough for me. If the prices get any higher and I can’t find good deals anymore, I might visit other places instead, sad to say.

tks for the info and being so honest thank you

Good report brother. Thank you.

Great commentary as always Steven ❤️🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for being honest!! I picked most of these issues, while visiting the city I ❤️ love!!

Another great video!

My wife and I love living in Vegas! Both late 20’s, no kids, two dogs!

Keeping it real. Well done, Steven.

No matter how hot it gets, it's still better than a 90 degree ultra humid day in Florida!!!! I was in Vegas one time where the temp was 117, and I left my casino cards in the car - I returned to a melted blob of plastic. Live and learn.........had to go get all new cards.

I remember several years ago my wife and I wanted to find a bar to have a nice quiet beer without machines making a rackety. We asked several bartenders on the strip where to go and were told it doesn't exist.

Thanx Steven very informative! Appreciate you we come to Vegas every summer we love the heat but I never really want to live there . The bugs and drugs etc.

Good Job Steve ! I see others trying to do the same video after you did yours , which doesn’t seem right. But keep up the good work !

Excellent presentation Steven! Very interesting, very informative! Looking forward to the next one! (I encounter black widow spiders in socal, hoping i don't get bitten!)

Planning on moving from SoCal to retire but we are planning on renting for at least a year before buying. You never know and don’t want to get stuck!!!

Your water clip was misleading.We use about 145 gallons a day.Last months bill was$45.20

Love you bro!

Great video! TY for sharing what happened with your friend. I can't imagine how tough that must have been for you. Prayers up ❤ My Mother in Law had melanoma, which was removed, but she won't go outside much at all now, even though she is cancer free. And this is in Ohio so it just goes to show it can happen to anyone anywhere. Looking forward to the next video and/or stream!

You are a good man and honest, may the lord bless you with all that you need.

Would love to live in Vegas. Currently live in the middle of nowhere. Absolutely boring and nothing to do. So many amazing things to see in Vegas.

The absolute worst thing about living in Vegas is the constant traffic and construction.

Encouraged by the scorching heat, you manage to successfully bring the Las Vegas experience to a high boil!

glad you mentioned how transient it is! there are people moving in and out constantly. you'll likely never see most people again.

Hi Steven. I was in Vegas in July of 2021. While at the mob museum, my phone said it was 119 degrees...while I believe you on the temp, it seems it has gotten hotter then 117...

Oh cool, you lived in Lake Tahoe! That's awesome. I grew up in Truckee, CA. It's interesting - Truckee and Lake Tahoe, depending on which side of the lake you're on, can be as different from each other as Reno and Las Vegas are. I'm so over the cold, wet snow, though. Been dealing with it my whole life! Worst case scenario, maybe living in Vegas will make me appreciate the snow and cold.

I appreciate this info as I am thinking about moving to Vegas. Maybe I should get an airbnb there for a month and see if that suits me before making a big move.

He's not lying about the heat, I grew up near there. The seasons are: Winter, cold, windy, blowing sand, spring, cold, windy turning to hot windy, blowing sand, summer, HOTTT, like an oven, you WILL spend most of your time indoors in a/c, fall, back to windy, cold, blowing sand. As a kid, my pets were tarantulas, scorpions, lizards & tortoises, & I peaced-outta there ASAP. This was a very accurate & informative video, what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger.✌🏼

Please talk about how bad Heathcare is here! Not all doctors but the hospitals geeze!

I will move to Vegas in 2 years! Can’t wait. I feel soooo alive there

I think I could make the move & it wouldn't be a big adjustment. I am a California native living in the central valley. We, also, get stupid hot summers & crummy winters. The only thing southern Nevada gets that we don't- I was visiting Las Vegas a few years ago when wind storm kicked up. A brown layer from the desert rose up & everyone w allergies and/or breathing problems ran for the indoors. Me? I dug out my old mask, not because of any virus, but to keep that crap out! Would I still move to LV? Hmm. Yah....I think I might!

I think that the water shortages are going to be the biggest issue for many. Limited opportunities to garden.

I live in Summerlin, I don't think I could live anywhere else anymore.

I loved the heat being there

So what doesn't help with the education system is they do something not every state does, they combine the testing of ESL and english speaking which causes the scores to be lower than some may think. I found this out from my Boss's wife who is a teacher and it also depends a lot on location of where you are, northern area isn't fantastic, it is way better to the south. It is a weird thing in Vegas. So far I've talked to my buddy that been there about 4-5 years so far and hasn't shockingly seen a scorpion at all . I've learned so far to just set aside 20-30 dollars every few weeks and only spend that gambling or none at all. The friendship thing I can see being a major issue, but I was lucky and have a friend and have become close to some communities in the Vegas area. Thanks for another fantastic video.

My son-in-law got a job there in March and my daughter will be moving with the kids next week. I’m not going to say where it is but let’s just say it’s a government job. Vegas is only about 1000 miles from my house and we go twice a year, so it’s not gonna be too bad because we will already be down there for NASCAR. She keeps laughing at me because she thinks it’s warm all the time. And I’m like you’ve been watching us in march down there for years it’s freaking cold.

The "official" temps for Vegas are bullshit. A lot of people don't realize, they take the official temp at the airport, in the shade. It's not reality. You can travel literally 5min east of the strip and see temps that are 10-15 degrees hotter. And one of the hottest areas in the whole city is typically Flamingo and Boulder Highway. Anyway, I was born and raised in Vegas and even I never got used to the brutal summers. We're outside Nashville now, summers here are nothing compared to the desert. Vegas is a depressing ass place to actually live and survive.

June 2017 I was in Death Valley and it was 130!!

Love this city but let me be honest Vegas is and will always be my number 1 vacation destination not a place to reside in for permanent residence 😁

I lived in Vegas for 20 years...The hotteat i remeber is 118° amd it lasted like that for almost a week. Then it was 110°-114° the rest of the summer. I decided to move when NV energy tripled the rates. Be aware of the astronomical energy bills, water bills, and gas living in Vegas. Also, the self deletion is a huge issue.

You should move to south central Wisconsin. Between Beloit and Madison. Close to Chicago, close to Milwaukee.

You can still buy sod at Star nursery

Enjoyed the video Steven. Don't know if you're doing a LIVE on Sunday the 9th, but it might be interesting to walk over to Sunset park and show us the hoopla ahead of the Trump rally. Hope you're having a good weekend!

This is why I live in Lincoln County some 90 miles NE of Downtown Las Vegas.

Hi Steven.

Working fine for me

With all the cons about Vegas, we still talk about moving there one day or somewhere closer. It’s cold here in buffalo. Good idea people try it for a month first 👍

People enjoy gambling without an addiction in most cases. They are not addicts for playing slot machines in the grocery store. If you enjoy something and enjoy doing it a lot, this does not make you an addict.

Between 2021 and 2022 my friend was getting cancer treatment in Mexico. His son has a restore health clinic in Texas. At any rate when he was down there getting treatment, I asked him later before he passed away, that did they test or wear masks or whatever in Mexico when he was down there receiving treatment. He said no they didn’t test. They didn’t ask any questions. Nobody was wearing a mask. And here in America, everybody was losing their minds. I know it’s controversial and everybody has their own beliefs, but I found this really interesting. They also said that the Mexican people which he was I say was because he passed away from a stomach aneurysm, that everybody down, there was very, very nice. I’ve only been to Mexico a few times and I guess one doesn’t count because we were at Cabo because that’s a resort town really and that’s where we were and of course everybody was really really nice. The other time was when I was a teenager and we went to Tijuana. We spent the day doing stuff but I was a kid, so what do I know?

22:27 Just my 2 cents on education since I subbed regularly pre/post COVID and during COVID: It's always been bad, but it's worse now because student behavior took a sharp decline when students returned to in-person instruction. Also, both the students and teachers are transient-- many from California. HUGE teacher shortage now. (Thank you for making these videos and I hope you're well)

Good afternoon from iowa

Great info Steven, Paradise in the desert is not what it appears to be. I could not live there for many of the reasons you mentioned the two main reasons !I am a 30 year sober alcoholic andI have had 6 sunstroke episode (2 severe ones). I am glad you are still enjoying it there, but, if I may not sure you are. You are a smart, talented young guy who could be doing something else. They say ‘follow your passion’ if this is it way to go, if not?.. I followed my passion as tough as it was of 45 year in graphic design was it really money maker, not really, but it was my passion. Then one day I was told” if you don’t inherit it, steal it or win it you will not make it working for living” ,in some ways that is true. Anyway I was a kid from the best time ever( the 60’s) and somehow survived and rockin at 77. Remember, with a good family you have everything, with bad health you have nothing. Take care Steven

I still haven’t meant a scorpion in 4 years.

Golf courses seem mighty green.

Still surprised by how many places still allow smoking...

What I like about Vegas is the brutal honesty of the gambling industry. Think you’re smart? Think you’ve got a system to beat the house? They say come at us, because we will send you home with empty pockets.

I don't think Lake Mead is gonna last past 2026-27, but I don't know much about this year's spring thaw.

looks like you're going to break the 117 record. Today!!!!

As a Canuck who used to go before Covey it was great but LV is an expensive city to live you need a car as transit really sucks. Its not as easy as everyone says to get a good job. Although you have wealthy areas there are MANY 'seedy' areas too and just go right down town or to naked city and see for yourself. Also healthcare in NV isnt very good had a friend who had to sue the hospital after botched foot operation.

New heat record now - 118

Las Vegas generates its own all there is is Rock mortar buildings asphalt mountains dirt rocks there's hardly anywhere to get shade it wasn't meant for people to live in a desert

We moved to Vegas in 2006 and it was less expensive and a fairly affordable place to live back then, cheaper than the college town I grew up in and it had less crime. Things have definitely changed. Something just shifted in a bad way around the time of Covid and the lockdowns. Everything got more expensive, people seem to be more angry, and even several years later.. things are far from normal. I still like living here but the vibe has changed in this city. I'm still hoping that time will even things out but I'm not seeing it so far. I enjoy your videos Steven and I like that you cover some of the less happy happy aspects of the city. I also like that you show people that Vegas isn't just a small flashy street for tourists, real people really do live here and there's much more to Vegas than The Strip.

Do a video on the burros. Nothing makes me happier than seeing a donkey in the wild. Great video!

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Hi there from flushing new York

Can you do a video about moving with kids? Feeling pressure from family to move closer to them in Las Vegas, but I'm worried.

Lived in Vegas early 70's. Pretty cool place to live back then. Wanted to move back, but just never happened. I won't think I'd want to live there now. Too much crime, homelessness for me.

Are you ever positive?

Too hot - in summer too cold - in winter Vegas ---- I refer California

never been there

Biggest mistake I made in my life was moving to Las Vegas life is not normal out here for anyone good place for a vacation but not to permanently reside

I agree with you on the Covid thing. I think we did things we didn’t need to, but we didn’t know and I say we I say as America. It was new and if you went against it, you were the bad guy and that’s sad. I had friends that did everything right And got it. I have friends that passed away from it. I don’t take it lightly at all but I think quarantining everybody was not the right way to go. We went to the NASCAR race in February of that year and I got really sick but urgent care said I had Bronchitis which I don’t disagree with and after two days the medication I was given I was like it never even happened. Then everybody in our group started getting a cold. Did they have it? Who knows we will never know. We didn’t test and it was too early. I get that they thought they were protecting people, but I hope that they learned their lesson and when I say they, I mean those in charge. The government. Whatever are used to be up on how the states fared that didn’t do what the liberal states did but it’s been so long now and it’s in the past. I don’t even care anymore. We didn’t go to the race in the so-called fall that year because they had closed it all shut it down. And then we resumed in 2021 but we had to wear a mask in the outdoors where there were 165,000 people. I took my mask down and took a drink from my drink, and this Man from security came up and started yelling at me before I even had a chance to put my mask back on. Meanwhile, this guy who was very drunk about five rows down, didn’t have his mask on at all and we watched for probably an hour and then finally somebody went down there and said something. I think they didn’t want to cause any issues because of him being so drunk. Because we all know things can go badly but I have a feeling somebody went and complained. Oh that’s right it was my husband after I got told off about putting my mask on after I took a drink of my drink he went and told on that guy and that’s when they went down.

I’ll be there next week for ten nights with my 70 year old dad

Give some news we moved here in 1974 and slot machines have been in 7-11 and grocery stores back then it’s definitely not new thing!

u forgot to mention the very high electricity costs and u need a lot of it to cool

The education system seems to be broken every where in the US. I personally feel like teachers have given up because they have been treated so poorly. Like a fancy school being built doesn't mean you're attracting top talent teachers or even have decently sized class rooms.

It used to be cheap like Wichita Kansas

@NOTLeavingLV Steven, do you know what casinos/buffets have the local's discounts for dining?

Vegas definitely is different from any other place. I have lived. But I do love it here, maybe I’m just a weirdo. I don’t gamble, I don’t drink. But I do smoke weed, and I like to jam with other musicians. Vegas can be what you want it to be. If you find that you’re only only being assholes, maybe you should stop hanging around assholes. Some of the nicest people I have ever met are in Vegas, and people are generally very nice and well mannered .

If you look up the benefits of sun, it certainly outweighs the chance of sunscreen. I say get a good sunscreen if you’re gonna be out that isn’t toxic. And if it’s so darn hot down there and people shouldn’t be outside when it’s so hot how is it that they’re getting cancer. More questions to ask and answer. I live in a high agriculture community and we have Hispanics that are working out in the 90 and 100° weather but they’re wearing long sleeve light shirts. They aren’t wearing short sleeves and slobbering on toxic sunscreen.

vegas is also a highly-unionized city and so people can make good, secure livings

Living in Vegas is like a bipolar fluid person. When its great! Its Awesome! When it goes bad. It sucks!

People around the world seem to be on the move. Californians moving to Vegas, Texas, Florida, etc. Illegal immigration is happening all over the world. Seniors are looking for more affordable places to live on social security. Be careful what you wish for. This is a great video for those thinking about selling their existing homes and moving to Vegas.

Question? Is it pronounced Calgary or Cal- "Gary"?

Calgary Alberta is not the coldest get the fax Right

crime is bed everywhere, guns and crimes will bring this country to its Knees

I’m not gonna say there’s no bugs in Vegas. We’ve been going down there for over 30 years and I’ve really not ever seen a lot of bugs. Twice a year we stayed at our friends off lone Mountain and they have a pool and I have never seen bugs there. I’ve never even seen a lizard in their yard front or back. Now Tucson that’s a whole different story. I’ve seen bugs I’ve seen lizards. One year when we were at the race track in Vegas. There were grasshoppers everywhere I mean you couldn’t walk without them just jumping like crazy. We’ve been doing that since 2005 and that’s the only time I have ever seen grasshoppers like that out there. I’m sure people have had experiences with bugs. I’m not gonna say they haven’t. I’m just saying as far as our experience we have never seen any bugs. Now here in Washington state oh yeah, we have plenty of bugs. I went out yesterday and was picking strawberries in my garden and something was sting in my arm and I looked down and there was the tiniest little red mite on my arm, and it hurts so bad

They dont call Vegas SINCITY for nothing

you mentioned the prevalence of palmetto bug in vegas well that's the nice name for the american cockroach!