Thanks for the replies everyone!
Just to work through it in my head, I made a summary of the pros and cons everyone has listed, with the things I care about at the moment bolded
pros: great flight connections, relatively low housing prices, property taxes and homeowners insurance are very affordable, no state income tax, access to a lot of out door activities: Red Rock Canyon, Lake Mead, Mt. Charleston, Valley of Fire, skiing. great restaurants,
cons: summer heat, no community feel anywhere, suburban sprawl, not walkable, very meh school system, traffic, big city crime
Areas to consider: Henderson especially the Green Valley area , Boulder City, or even Mount Charleston area
Looking at that list, there's plenty of pros and cons, but I have bolded a lot more in the pro column than I have in the con category. If I were doing the bolding for the rest of my life, I would care much more about the cons, but I'm really only thinking in terms of the next 5 years (when my daughter hits school age, and is also the far extreme of when I think I'll stop working).
I'm a telecommuter right now, and it's very difficult to financially justify moving anywhere with state income tax. In addition, I'm thinking I will probably work for a few more years, but I consider myself FI. Mentally, I don't want to live somewhere so expensive that I can't quit whenever I want.
When my daughter starts school and I have a better idea of what my retirement budget looks like, we'll reevaluate where we want to live for my daughter's school age years.
I'm looking at flights and will probably go to Vegas in the next few weeks, please chime in if I missed anything or if there's any other areas I should investigate.