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I'm from New York. Nevada is nothing but a desert.
Much of Nevada is desert, the area around Reno and Lake Tahoe is not.
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And I have no idea what being from New York has to do with this conversation?
The thing is that the lakes in the Las Vegas area are very unusual and very pretty. It's very picturesque with red-tinted mountains in the background of crystal blue water, AND in the desert. Can't find that in many areas of the country. Beaches like the ones in Florida can be found all over the coasts.
With all the Beaches I've been to, Florida's are by far the best and most beautiful IMO. But I see how a lake in a desert is beautiful. It would just get old fast for me.
Just make sure you never, ever leave the strip. Because outside the strip LV is
Not necessarily. Here's the thing - compared to almost any other major city, Las Vegas' "ghetto" is very small and pretty tame. The areas immediately surrounding the old downtown are probably the worst, there are some sketchy areas immediately surrounding the strip, and there are a few not-so-great areas on the northeast side of the valley. But even these few areas are NOTHING compared to the bad areas in other cities.
And aside from these areas, the rest of the valley (the majority) is really nice.
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The thing is, Atlantic City is boring unless you're gambling. You really can only hang around your hotel or take a car to another hotel (which is dumb, because each hotel parking lot costs like $8 to park). There's nothing else to do in the hotels if you don't like gambling. There's TONS of stuff to do in Las Vegas if you don't like gambling. The hotels are designed in a way so that kids and teenagers can have fun while their parents gamble. For example: The NY, NY hotel has an awesome roller coaster going all over the hotel. I'd say only about half the time I was in Las Vegas, I was gambling.
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