Most people move to Las Vegas due to the opportunity that the city offers them to advance their lives in ways that they cannot advance elsewhere.  Many prefer the warm weather and would move to California by extreme prices of houses causes them to reconsider that thought process.  That brings them into Las Vegas, where you can buy far more house for your money and still be the recipient of more than 300 sunny days per year.  We have very few rainy days in Las Vegas, which allows for people who enjoy outdoor activities to partake in them for more than they would in other areas.  For example there are for more golf courses in Las Vegas then there are in any other city in the country, obviously being enjoyed by an overwhelming population of golfers who call the area home.  The mentality of Las Vegas residents is that if you have the money you can create any life for yourself, including remaking the landscape and anything that you want it to be.  The casinos have created this mentality, with the presentation of their properties of being far more in just a hotel and gambling operation in the middle of the desert.  Instead, the market themselves as being an oasis in the desert, where you can find reprieve from the hot desert sun and lack of water in absolute paradise where anything that you want can happen.  This same mentality has influenced the way that residents remake their own properties, oftentimes resulting in lush tropical plants and grass being planted around homes and businesses.  The sunshine provides ample ability for these types of plants to thrive, but the lack of natural water means that we are forced to supply water from our own reserves to them in order to keep them alive.  Over time, this is proven to be a mistake.

As our population grows, we find that our own reliance on a single water source has begun to become taxed.  During drought conditions, our reserves become dangerously low and the waste in of water on things like landscaping no longer appears to be a conscientious thing to do.  For this reason, marketing campaigns over the last few years have changed the mentality of those that live in Las Vegas away from planting real grass and four as the installation of fake grass or desert landscaping in order to conserve water.  Each square foot of grass that is removed from a Las Vegas Property and replaced with a fake grass will save upwards of 50 gallons of water per year that can be used for drinking.  Incentives from the city are in place for you to benefit financially from the removal of real grass and the replacement with a fake grass.  This has led to fake grass being considered an improvement to your home in the area, and ultimately adds to your property value when you attempt to sell.  Have you made the switch to fake grass yet?