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05-19-2008, 01:54 PM
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Vacationing in Vegas for now on...
people say i can always visit florida when I leave..but i think visiting Vegas would be so much more fun; besides I'll be about 1,500 miles closer than i am now. I'll be 1200 miles away. I'm posting here because although never been to Vegas, I think its a sister to Miami...without the ocean.
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05-19-2008, 02:12 PM
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Las vegas is nothing like any city in this country, especially Miami. You should definitely visit a city before comparing it to another, especially calling it a "sister city". Vegas is fun to visit for about 4 days and then you're partied out, it is a city that is unique in its own way. Las Vegas is literally nothing more than a strip of Casinos/Clubs/fill in the blank for adult entertainment here.
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05-19-2008, 02:19 PM
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FIU Golden Panthers
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Not really. Las Vegas is very different to Miami IMO. Miami is actually a real big city, Las Vegas is just a city with tacky tourist attractions and cheesy architecture.
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05-19-2008, 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by kevinkagy
Not really. Las Vegas is very different to Miami IMO. Miami is actually a real big city, Las Vegas is just a city with tacky tourist attractions and cheesy architecture.
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Miami is not a big city ala Philly or NYC... |
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05-19-2008, 02:26 PM
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Miami's Prive has a sister-club in Vegas with the same name. But that's about it i guess, lol.
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05-19-2008, 03:57 PM
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wow; well I did say I think. I didnt say it is a sister. I only say because I read in the paper awhile ago that Las Vegas was going to integrate condos in their strip similar to Miami. But yea I guess they're not so similar, but I still want to visit LOL
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05-19-2008, 10:50 PM
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It's funny, I have a friend who was born in Las Vegas ( He refuses to say "Vegas") and has grown to hate it. He complains about the over-development and talks about the "old" city and strip. I have looked at the family pics when he grew up in the 60's and 70's and the old family home with its palm trees and gardens and realized it is like Miami in several ways. It went from cow pasture and empty land to big city in a few decades. Many things from it's "golden age" have been destroyed. It's an area utterly dependant on outside money to survive. Water supplies have gone from abundant to scarce. Neither city is critical to the US as a whole. Both could be considered "paradise lost".
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05-19-2008, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by tallrick
It's funny, I have a friend who was born in Las Vegas ( He refuses to say "Vegas") and has grown to hate it. He complains about the over-development and talks about the "old" city and strip. I have looked at the family pics when he grew up in the 60's and 70's and the old family home with its palm trees and gardens and realized it is like Miami in several ways. It went from cow pasture and empty land to big city in a few decades. Many things from it's "golden age" have been destroyed. It's an area utterly dependant on outside money to survive. Water supplies have gone from abundant to scarce. Neither city is critical to the US as a whole. Both could be considered "paradise lost".
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I cant stand low water pressure...it may not be for me LOL. But yea, it is similar in a away in terms of the way it looks and has developed; thats what i meant. Thanks for agreeing with that |
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05-20-2008, 01:44 AM
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I have a hard time thinkin of Las Vegas as something more than the strip and the rest being suburbia, there is no other economy, no buisness centers you find in real cities. Downtown LV is just more casinos. No large cultural establishments outside the strip. Without that section of Las Vegas boulevard it would really be nothing. Some would dare to say that about Miami Beach, but the fact is theres alot more intresting places on the mainland than South Beach, buisness wise, culturally, and just intrestingly. Miami surely wouldn't be all it is now economically because the tourism but its not the same trade off with LV, not even close.
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05-20-2008, 01:55 AM
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Originally Posted by UrbaneAspects
I cant stand low water pressure...it may not be for me LOL. But yea, it is similar in a away in terms of the way it looks and has developed; thats what i meant. Thanks for agreeing with that
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Yeah they way they look....like Las Vegas's arid desert and cascading Sierra Nevada Range....could've fooled me....  |
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