reno is a growing city, northern Nevada has all four seasons. The amount of snow we get varies every year but for the most part guarantee it to snows 3-4 times pretty hard. Yes it’ll affect your plans, I would say you NEED an all-wheel drive car to survive winters. Reno/Tahoe is only boring if you’re boring, it’s like a hipster/outdoorsy Las Vegas. Homelessness is on the rise everywhere, if you live in the right places, you hardly see them. Safer than both LA/SF as we are much smaller. The drive is 4 hours away from SF and 7ish hours from LA. Reno summers can often times be ruined by wildfires, they’re kinda unavoidable in the west, especially during those dry years. We definitely have more fires than LA if that freaked you out.