For VEGASREFUGEE: What's wrong with Las Vegas?

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:23 pm

Hello VegasRefugee,

You've mentioned in the past that you used to live in Las Vegas but don't like it anymore.

Why is that? Why do you dislike Las Vegas?

Thanks,
Shades

Post by **_Mercury** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:04 pm

Vegas as a whole is not too bad. In my experience though it has a small town mentality or at least it did when I grew up there.

My views of Las Vegas really are not centered around Vegas as a whole but focus more on the housing market, general attitudes of Las Vegans and the vapid wasteland that is the Vegas Information Technology job market.

Is vegas a hole? in certain situations, yes. But growing up in vegas made me jaded and cynical...or its just me.

Post by **_Gazelam** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:12 pm

I don't know how Vegas (The man) feels, but I for one have grown up here and wish I could get away.

Let me put it this way, Vegas is kind of like Vinyl seats in a car. Sure it looks like leather, but eventually you se its really plastic. Everything in this town is a facade. Fake. Fake Egypt, Fake Rome, Fake Castle. Everything here is new, cheap, and designed solely to be fasionable and to sell you something. I alomost had a panic attack one day when I realised how many advertisements were being presented to me on a constant basis. Its just a phony town with everybody trying to gladhand you and take your money.

I wish my proffesion could be in another field where I could get out of town and live somewhere green and with a soul. But as far as income is concerned I'll never make what I do here anywhere else, or I'd follow refuggees example and run away with my family.

Post by **_Trinity** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:01 pm

Don't forget the boiling hot temperatures. There's nothing quite like walking out into a parking lot in the middle of August and have 120 degrees of asphalt heat hit you in the face. Whenever I visit Vegas, I do not go out unless it is nighttime.

Post by **_Gazelam** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:31 pm

Trinity wrote:Don't forget the boiling hot temperatures. There's nothing quite like walking out into a parking lot in the middle of August and have 120 degrees of asphalt heat hit you in the face. Whenever I visit Vegas, I do not go out unless it is nighttime.

And don't forget, never leave a construction marking crayon on the front seat of your truck.

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:25 pm

Congratulations you guys, you just talked me out of ever going to Las Vegas which is a popular weekend trip from where I live. I was so glad to read Gaz talk about fakeness. When I see the casino locations on TV I think it looks gawdy and plastic. This past summer, I had a chance to go to the casinos in Atlantic City and I think some of those might be owned by Las Vegas casinos. The were disgusting and what was supposed to look "ornate" looked gawdy, low class and cheap. I don't gamble so I really just walked through them. I cannot understand why people would spend time throwing away their money in what looks like a 3 rate whore house.

Jersey Girl

Post by **_JAK** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:58 am

Jersey Girl wrote:Congratulations you guys, you just talked me out of ever going to Las Vegas which is a popular weekend trip from where I live. I was so glad to read Gaz talk about fakeness. When I see the casino locations on TV I think it looks gawdy and plastic. This past summer, I had a chance to go to the casinos in Atlantic City and I think some of those might be owned by Las Vegas casinos. The were disgusting and what was supposed to look "ornate" looked gawdy, low class and cheap. I don't gamble so I really just walked through them. I cannot understand why people would spend time throwing away their money in what looks like a 3 rate whore house.

Jersey Girl

Why do they do it? It’s because they want to believe that they could be the lucky one to make off with a mint. It’s fundamentally the same reason people buy lottery tickets. They want to see a check for millions become theirs. They know that some people win, so why can’t they be in that select few?

As for being “low class” or “cheap,” I suppose that’s all in the eye of the beholder. What you saw, you interpreted differently than all those people feeding money into the machines which mainly kept it.

Las Vegas is a great place to go -- if you don’t gamble. Often you can stay in nice accommodations and have spectacular food for little money. Of course, the casinos expect you to gamble at least some. In fact certain places have a requirement about that.

We have friends who spend their winters there and have a home there and in the Midwest. They know all the neat places and interesting things to do that don’t actually cost much.

JAK

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:23 am

JAK,

My impression of the AC casinos was as I stated above. My observation was that the casinos were heavily populated by retirees, many of whom ride casino buses "down the shore", spend the day, eat well (there were buffets as part of a package deal) and I think that's their day out. That's not a bad thing to do. I am not a gambler, I've never bought a lottery ticket in my life and part of the package deal on the casino buses was 20$ refund which of course the casinos expect you'll use as start up funds in their establishments.

I took my 20$ and went to the beach and why? Because I'm one of the select few who thinks the beach is my best idea of a day out.

One small thing...I know myself. I gambled once in my life at slot machines. As I recall you got a cup of nickels (?). After I borrowed a few of someone else's nickels, I got my own. After I used up my own, I tried to take nickels away from someone else in our party.

See?

Jersey Girl
;-)

Post by **_twinkie** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:07 am

I have never been to Vegas. It sounds like I am not missing much. I like Lake Tahoe and Reno. I "gamble" a little bit. Usually I will just take $20 and play the machines just to play the machines. When my $20 is gone I go do something else. To me, it's like a video game.

Post by **_Mercury** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:57 am

Jersey Girl wrote:Congratulations you guys, you just talked me out of ever going to Las Vegas which is a popular weekend trip from where I live. I was so glad to read Gaz talk about fakeness. When I see the casino locations on TV I think it looks gawdy and plastic. This past summer, I had a chance to go to the casinos in Atlantic City and I think some of those might be owned by Las Vegas casinos. The were disgusting and what was supposed to look "ornate" looked gawdy, low class and cheap. I don't gamble so I really just walked through them. I cannot understand why people would spend time throwing away their money in what looks like a 3 rate whore house.

Jersey Girl

Go to the Bellagio or the Wynn. High class places. Seriously.