Gardnerville, Nevada SperlingViews

We lived in Gardnerville for 9 years. Quiet town. Plenty of families. Great if you like the outdoors. Dry climate. You get all four seasons, but mild. The wind in the afternoon can be irritating. Kind of rural, but there is one excellent shopping area with restaurants, etc., about 20 minutes from Gardnerville. It takes 20 minutes to get to the nearest beach at Lake Tahoe, but the best beach for kids, Sand Harbor, is about 45 minutes. Not a good community for singles. And the people are not all that warm. But if you attend a church, (we went to Hilltop Community), you'll find warm, friendly people and plenty of activities for the family. There is also a fun swim center with water slides for the kids. We are now in Southern California and enjoy being in all the action. Won't get as much variety in Gardnerville, but nice town none-the-less.

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Sleepy town, good for families - 1/6/2007

We lived in Gardnerville for 9 years. Quiet town. Plenty of families. Great if you like the outdoors. Dry climate. You get all four seasons, but mild. The wind in the afternoon can be irritating. Kind of rural, but there is one excellent shopping area with restaurants, etc., about 20 minutes from Gardnerville. It takes 20 minutes to get to the nearest beach at Lake Tahoe, but the best beach for kids, Sand Harbor, is about 45 minutes. Not a good community for singles. And the people are not all that warm. But if you attend a church, (we went to Hilltop Community), you'll find warm, friendly people and plenty of activities for the family. There is also a fun swim center with water slides for the kids. We are now in Southern California and enjoy being in all the action. Won't get as much variety in Gardnerville, but nice town none-the-less.[read more...]

Beautiful, but disappointing - 6/23/2006

I retired here from Northern California as a renter and thought I could buy a home in the Carson valley for under $200K, but housing is very expensive here for an agricultural community---$350,000+ for a 3 bedroom single family home. And they keep building monsterous 4 or 5 bedroom homes for $400K and above. No new, affordable smaller homes are being built here for seniors. Also, I notice most people have 2 or 3 cars with one being a pickup or SUV equipped with 4-wheel drive on account of having to commute to work in the snow in the winter. There seems to be no regulation requiring mufflers, as the SUV's and pickups make a lot of noise when they're operating. This is a constant problem late at night and in the early morning. My biggest gripe are the people who drive around with their car stereos turned up so high that the walls of my townhouse actually vibrate. There's no law like you have in California against driving around with the volume turned full blast whether on the highway on in a residential area. I came to the country to enjoy peace and quiet and it's actually worse than the city where I used to live. Not all negatives as I've described however---this is one of the most beautiful places in the world with the mountains all around you. And the air actually smells fresh (except on those days in the winter, when people stoke up the fireplace).[read more...]

Climate - 5/30/2006

The weather here is nice. There are four seasons, but it seems to me that spring and fall are relatively small compared to summer and winter. It is more windy than I'd like, but overall the weather is quite mild (we're in Northern Nevada) if it gets too hot in the summer, we can always go up to Lake Tahoe to cool off.[read more...]