I was born and raised in Reno! I would definetly say that it’s a good place to raise a family. It’s a great location. Medium sized city yet still close enough to California to be in touch with reality. I always felt that similiar cities like Boise, Salt Lake, etc were too isolated from other large metropotian areas. I think being close to California keeps Reno from becoming too “redneck”. And plus they don’t have that mentality that everyone from California should go back to California.
You get four distinct seasons and there’s plenty to do outside like you mentioned. If you lived in South Reno, you’re about 45-60 minutes from South Lake Tahoe. I never moved back to Reno after college mainly due to the lack of job opportunites. I know things have improved lately and it’s become a bit more diversfied. In the past, you pretty much had the casino’s/tourism and construction. Lately it’s really done a good job attracting small and medium sized businesses out of Calif. And it really is nothing like Las Vegas, which is good.
I know that south Reno is growing alot and that part of town, being newer should have low crime. I’d say the schools are probably about average. I don’t know how they would compare to any in San Diego. The entire county is one school district.
