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Pete P's avatar

Vegas is a weird place. My brother claims it is out of phase with the rest of reality.

Yes, vast of numbers have moved from California to Vegas. The suburban neighborhoods could be mistaken for SoCal.

I once read a historian who claimed that Vegas represented the modern America better than any other place. At first, I was rather bothered by the idea, but it is all phony and focused on immediate gratification and leaves most people with fuzzy memories and such, but I later realized the historian was correct. Modern America is as empty and soulless as Vegas and not even as fun.

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Warmek's avatar

> It’s not that Vegas is great, it’s that it’s no worse than California and California costs four times as much to live in.

I will grant that CA is 4x as expensive, but having lived both places, I'm not sure Vegas isn't worse. I mean, I didn't live in either one very long, and don't live in either of them now, but CA at least *has* a soul, even if it's corrupt.

Still, very little desire to even visit either of them, at this point.

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