Hasta Las Vegas BABY
Yes it's hot there four months of the summer. However, it's such dry heat that you will only feel it the most if you're lying directly in the sun. In the shade it's pleasant. I spent many years in Philadelphia and Upper New York. When it would get to 80 degrees with the humidity is in the 90s, you sweat like a pig even if you're in the shade.
I greatly prefer Vegas to the east coast in the summer. You don't feel the heat as much because you're going from an air conditioned house to an air conditioned car to an air conditioned bar. Lastly the real Las Vegas weather story is the following:
January February March April May June July August September October November December
High 57 63 70 79 88 100 106 102 95 82 66 57
Low 34 39 45 52 61 70 73 73 66 54 43 34
A you can see, except for a few months, Vegas has more temperature changes than Los Angeles with much less humidity. In the winter I can finally ware the jackets I've been saving in the garage.
Our move is going smoothly. We spent three weeks getting the place ready before the furniture arrives. We also spent three weeks getting rid of things in our current house before the movers come. This part sucked. Living in the same house for 30 years enables you to accumulate too much stuff. We through out half of our stuff because they we too old, didn't fit, never used (skates from when we were teenagers) and other stuff that we had to ask ourselves what the hell were we saving this for?
Finding a place was a breeze. I have a close friend who is also a realtor. In two days we saw every house/country club all over Vegas. The second day we hit gold and bought a place that is 40% larger than our current house, unattached single story corner lot (our current house is attached on both sides and has four levels to climb every day), with a lap pool and spa and a fabulous Country Club). We got all of this for 40% less than what we are going to sell our Los Angeles house for.
On a sour note, if you are retired and have a lot of money in investment, but only Social Security coming in as new income, getting a Mortgage is a mind fuck. Thanks to the Dodd-Frank bill, retired seniors have to get their mortgage from a smaller bank (the big banks want nothing to do with you even if you have millions in investments). I only was able to get them to give me a mortgage after sending them about a foot of paperwork. Having an 832 FICA score helped a lot.
I realize that the house lending disaster of 2008 caused the creation of the Dodd-Frank bill. However, instead of taking a middle ground approach, they went to the far left. In my opinion this bill has created senior abuse.
My next blog will be from my Man Cave in Las Vegas
Hasta Las Vegas BABY
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