According to Sperling’s BestPlaces Reno ranks as one of The Ten Best Places to Live in the U.S. I’m not sure if the list was in any particular order, but if so, Reno ranked 9th on Sperling’s top-ten list.
According to Sperling’s…
Reno’s Good
“Reno boasts ample options for outdoor recreation, including skiing the Sierra Nevada’s and exploring Lake Tahoe and its surrounding national forest.”
“Reno area is affordable (median home price $292,300), which makes it a smart choice for young people looking to move into a California-like climate on a budget.”
Reno’s Not so Good
“The crime rate is a bit higher than the national average…”
Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with the ranking, the exposure for Reno is great. This story is currently the lead story in Yahoo!® Real Estate’s Neighborhoods page.
Tags: Reno, NV
MikeZ
RE: “Reno area is affordable (median home price $292,300)…”
And getting more affordable every month.
Doofus
I’ve been to about 80% of the top ten. Ashville is a pretty compelling place, but I had a choice, and I chose Reno. I’m a floater. I could be living in NYC, Chicago, Boise right now, but I’m not. I chose Reno based on the region’s assets. And I’m satisfied with my decision, and trust me, I looked at a lot of alternatives before settling here.
Hey, any conspiracy theories about D’s last post from yesterday disappearing?
2sleepy
Like Doofus, we could have chosen to live anywhere. Portland Or., Austin, Santa Fe., Tucson and Vancouver Wa. all made our short list, but Reno won out. We are very happy here and don’t plan on leaving the area, the the only things I don’t like are the god awful winds in SW Reno. and no Ikea store nearby.
I disagree with the writer’s choice of Corvallis, I find it to be one of the less desirable areas of Oregon, and would pick Eugene, Ashland, or Portland over Corvallis/Albany any day.
RGJ
Hey Doofus,
I also noticed the published and then replaced post regarding a new direction in the way real estate agents work, etc. I just thought I may have been the only one to notice that!
Tom
“San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles”
Somebody must be smoking something if the above area made their `top spots’ list. Although the climate is consistently mild, there is not much more to say about it. There are no true niceties or amenities to the area, just formula chain restaurants; cattle ranchers and agricultural workers are the main demographic; as far as the culture of having a university nearby, there is a reference to SLO Poly? Yikes! I don’t think you would hardly know it is there. It is a L-O-N-G way to a decent airport. Try to persuade your friends to drive up to San Luis to visit you, good luck with that. If this area is listed, I sense that making this list is akin to being damned by faint praise.
Nike
Reno/Sparks is the best place to live. My wife and I are professionals working in Silicon Valley. We enjoy our ski trips to Reno/Tahoe area in each winter and bought our second home in Windfield Springs at the end of 2005 during one of our winter skip trips. Sparks is an ideal place for us to settle down and start our own business after our high-tech life.
In the next few decades, the population in California will grow from 34 millions to 60 millions. We don’t think people in California can afford buying single family homes anymore. We have also considered Portland, OR but don’t like the weather there and its distance from the Bay Area. Reno is the best place for North Californians to maintain decent quality of life while keeping the connection to the area. The average life span is now 78. People in our generation will spend even more years after retirement and Nevada will be the best place for people living in Northern California to unload the savings for retirement.
We are not really concerned with the depressed housing market in Reno right now. We put down enough down payment in the house so that the income from renting out the house pays for the monthly payment of our 15 years loan. We will own the house 100% after 13 years. We can’t think any other better ways to fight inflation besides maximizing the contribution of our 401K accounts.
You got to have a long-term view on the housing market of Reno/Sparks. We think the housing price in Reno/Sparks will go up substantially again in 10 years because of population pressure from Northern California and inflation of construction material. Right now, it is good time to shop for bargains, but make sure you have enough down payment and long-term view of investment.
smarten
RJG wrote: “I also noticed the published and then replaced post regarding a new direction in the way real estate agents work, etc. I just thought I may have been the only one to notice that!”
No, in addition to Doofus, I too noticed its deletion. Since I was the first [and possibly only] person to post a response, I’m wondering if it was my post which caused Diane to delete the thread? Although nothing I said was directed against Diane, I can imagine that if I were her broker, I might have concerns because I addressed the issue of the archaic commission structure and how it adversely affects innovation.
Did your broker put pressure on you Diane to delete the thread because of the direction in which it was going? Or was deletion a simple “mistake” which you can rectify by reposting?
RGJ
Smarten, although I did not view your response on the deleted subject, I agree that the commission structure makes no sense for anyone but the realtor/broker…. after all, it costs no more for the RE agent to sell a $2M house that it does a $200K house but the commission difference is a factor of 10X…
Anyway, I doubt if any broker wants anyone offering contrary suggestions to the good ole way RE has been conducted up to now!
NAS
Not much gets past this group.
Smarten-To my knowledge, I was the second person to comment on Diane’s post. I agreed with your post and expressed my view point on current advances in technology and business relating to how R.E. hasn’t kept up. My remark about some of the more seasoned agents needing to change their ways or hope WalMart
would be hiring doesn’t seem too harsh to me.
Diane-mia culpa if I offended you. I hope your broker did not pressure you to remove your comments-whatever happened to free speech?
GreenNV
It was one of Diane’s most interseting posts – very “Blog Noir”. It could have become a very intersting discussion here.
I managed to read the 2 responses before the post was deleted. smarten was in his “good cop” persona, and he posed a lot of intersting musings on the direction the industry could be moving towards if it wants to survive. NAS was equally non-disrespectful.
I really hope Chase didn’t exert pressure to delete the post (on the day of their Mansions Tour). They could have learned a lot from the discussion here, and if they just freaked, it would certainly taint the organization in my opinion. Or maybe Diane just had second thoughts on the post – it could have used one last edit to avoid some topics that would have lead to extranious comments here.
Anyway, for those who missed it, it was a great post calling for all of us to reflect on the current state of the real estate sales heirachy, and invited our suggestions on what needs come down the road to keep agents from becoming this decade’s travel agents. I hope it resurfaces.
I'm Not Your Piggybank
Diane, I hope you are okay. I, too, saw your deleted posting and it was about your health. Hopefully you are busy selling homes and not undergoing medical tests/procedures.
Diane Cohn
Thanks all, sorry about the disappearing post and the disappearing Diane… I’ve been super busy with clients. That post will be back, but a little more well-groomed next time. Blog Noir? LOL, absolutely. With perhaps a little too much Noir. Smarten, your comments were incredible, and I would like to repost them once I get it back together. NAS, yours were wonderful as well. I pulled the post on my own accord due to some wrong guessing on the guess who I’m talking about front. TMI. Thankfully my health is fine.