I lived in Vegas for a bit. It's like SoCal, just REALLY far inland
I didn't live in Henderson though, I was in the Northwest part of the valley, off toward Santa Fe Station. Area was headed downhill when we left, but I did like living there. On the west side of town you wanna stay above Rainbow.
Go only if you have a job waiting, unemployment there is wickedly high. On the bright side, property values have crashed.
There's always something to do, at any hour, great restaurants (even in the more local casinos, and all the usual chains outside of them), you can pretty much navigate all over town by comparing your location to the Stratosphere or the light from the Luxor.
If your daughter graduates from a CA high school, she can go to a UC or CSU as a state resident. Not so if you move her out of state. Can she stay with a relative for her last semester?