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Ok, how about Winnemucca or Tonopah? ;-)

As long as we can get QVC and ShopNBC on the dish and they have Bingo close by, my wife will be happy. I'll be logged on FR. LOL

Have you ever been to Tonapah? I take road trips all over Nevada (like the wide open spaces) and do sit in front of a motel in Tonopah drinking beer a couple times a year, watching the trucks drive through town on U.S. 50. But living there? The best restaurant in town in a Mexican take-out. Winnemuca is a little better but not much.

But I'll bet you've never been to Goldfield, NV, another favorite hangout of mine. There's only 4 motel rooms in town and I'm usually the only guest.

Well, all of Nevada has some pretty respectable seismic hazard, but it's worst along the West edge; the fault on the East side of the Sierra (where the Sierra came up) is extremely dangerous and has cranked out massive quakes; the last big one was in the 1800s RIGHT before the area was settled.

All the ranges of Nevada are basically hinged blocks and they rise through quakes; so you can have them most anywhere. But there's a little less hazard away from Western Nevada.

The place that's really dangerous that people don't realize is Salt Lake City and the whole populated area in Utah; lots of seismic hazards, regular 7.5s every 160 years or so on the Wasatch front, but the last one was RIGHT before Brigham Young showed up.

The whole area is built on mushy lake sediment and at some point in the next 50 years ago you're likely going to see all the cities of the Wasatch front leveled.