[oomph]

I sense a lot of angst in the original post. I wish you well. Sometimes a new environment can change your outlook.

[Buzz123]

Hey OP, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

He'll be back in six months once he gives up all of the conveniences we have, and sees how boring it is every place else.

[vegaslocal55]

"the city scorching in 115 degrees for a nice 6 months of summer"
Exaggerating a bit, maybe? Gosh, I don't think it hit 115 even once these last few summers I've been here..

[dynimagelv]

I seem to recall 117 once....but it was a dry heat

[BBMW]

I think the OP said his piece and left.

You know what? If he wants a quiet, sleepy, little, old fashioned western town, he's correct, Vegas isn't for him.

Maybe he should move up to Eli?

[dynimagelv]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR it's cold in Ely

[WannaliveinGreenville]

Originally Posted by Vegashoop

Born and raised in Vegas, my children are 3rd generation Las Vegans. I have watched this city morph from a sleepy western town to the Babylon of the western hemisphere. In the 70s and 80s, population was a tenth of what it is today. Horseback riding, fishing at Lake Mead, sledding at Mt. Charleston, beautiful orange and pink desert sunsets, attending good schools with kids you've always grown up with. The tight conservative community pride has been overtaken with transient people, both singles and retirees that have already raised there families elsewhere. They outnumber natives and so the vote goes....no new children's hospitals, or schools or parks, or fire.....The university is a Mickey Mouse school, you'll never get taken seriously elsewhere. The children's education is some of the worst in the nation. We lead as highest suicide rates, drop-out rates, teen pregnancy, most dangerous city, unhealthiest city. Our air quality is bad, as is what little water we have left. Just a dry baren wasteland. You cannot escape the smut pushers on the strip, the tacky and usually half-nude billboard advertisements in every direction or on the back of the cabs. Horrible trafic, lack of culture, art and any true diversity. Most of the city councel/county commisioners have been arrested for embezzlement, taking bribes, sexual favors and the like. The Mayor is more interested in pleasing tourists than the constiuants, drinking and promoting mob museum. The locals no longer have a say, even with a vote. This isn't the "old Vegas" you see on tv. No more Sinatra, mahogany bars with Martinis and a quiet charm. No more warm and dry summers. Neon-flash-tackiness and loud obnoxious drunks. An overbuilt city of cookie-cutter-stucco homes and gated-block walls and polluted skies keep the city scorching in 115 degrees for a nice 6 months of summer. Thank God we are leaving next year. No more paying tuition for overprice private schools that ar the lesser of two evils. No more sex on every corner. I'm getting my family out before the water runs out and city is overtaken by illegals.

It was very hard to read this without paragraphs....

[topaz420]

You should move to the year 1850, I hear it's real nice there.

[Vegashoop]

I was born and raised in Las Vegas and I'm getting my family out from here. You transients have ruined this city together with corrupt local government.

[observer53]

Originally Posted by Vegashoop

I was born and raised in Las Vegas and I'm getting my family out from here. You transients have ruined this city together with corrupt local government.

Enough. If Las Vegas is no longer the place for you, then it is good that you can leave. But, you have no idea whether you are talking to natives, near natives, or recent arrivals on this forum, nor do you have any basis for accusing the people on this forum of "ruining this city". Best of luck in your new destination.

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