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Las Vegas, NV

reviewed by magellan

Called Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada (518,313) was first settled by Mormon farmers in 1854, sent to convert the Paiute Indians. Las Vegas was incorporated in 1911, and after gambling ...
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magellan
04/30/2008

Las Vegas, NV 2

I usually enjoy myself for about 24-36 hours. Any more than that and I am absolutely miserable, and I have a pounding escape gong going off in my brain. I'm all for letting yourself go every once in while, but if Vegas is Sin City, it's Homogenized Sin City, and the crowd gives me the creeps.

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irishgit commented 583 days ago.
Absolutely right. I'm a dedicated hedonist, and Vegas is "decadence by the numbers." I'm old enough to remember it when the Mob ran it, and it was better then.

magellan commented 583 days ago.
Malcolm Gladwell once said that he sees more interesting things walking from his apartment to a coffee shop in Greenwich Village than he does during a weekend in Vegas. I tend to agree.

irishgit commented 583 days ago.
Me too. I was in Vegas last fall after an absence of several years, and while I had fun, the average patrons are ridiculous. I got off the Strip and went downtown and had more fun in some of the old joints that still survive, and cater to the locals. Way better than rubbing elbows with some drunken car-dealer from Flint in Planet Hollywood.

earthbound commented 583 days ago.
homogenized sin city. I like that term.
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