Transplanted to the dessert

I've been living here in Las Vegas since Dec. 07 and still feel like this is temporary. Since we are here as long as it takes for Jay's company to finish the City Center, I havent't made our house a HOME. I noticed when I went home to California last weekend how comfortable I felt. We stayed at my brother and Jessica's and her house truely feels like a HOME. All the perfectly set figurines to the cheerfully decorated kitchen, even little Roslyn's Princess room made me want to sleep forever in her toddler bed like Sleeping beauty. You truely don't know how much you will miss the things that you took for granted. I have an even larger home, more comfortably financially, I finally get to stay home with my girls but can't get myself to hang the family photos on the large blank white walls that seem larger then life when there is nothing on them. I am trying to make friends here but they are not nearly as nice as the people back home. Waving when someone lets you in when driving, holding a door open for the next customer entering the grocery store, smiling and saying hi, these are all foreign concepts for people here. They also dont know how to drive! They are either 20 mph UNDER the speed limit or suddenly cut you off and drive slower. OH and run red lights like it is going out of style. I hope I can settle down and feel more at home.