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What kills me is how tourists presume everyone that lives in Vegas in either a blackjack dealer or a hooker......my woman even got hit on as a hooker at a hotel function we were at, but she said it kinda turned her on.
HMMMM, is that why you hate Vegas so much. Your woman got turned on after being hit on as a hooker?
One can only assume, since you didn't respond to my questions earlier, the reasons for all the hatred.
Yes, for all you complaining about the "Vegas sucks" threads, the monster rears it's ugly head yet again!
Feeling led to speak my own mind regarding this supject, I support those who feel Las Vegas is not the best place to live, and I feel SW1230 has a lot of good points that many of you seem to over look here.
Though it's good to hear many people do have positive results to their lives here, I feel the community as a whole needs to wake up about many things going on in this city. Bless your heart if you are lucky enough to live in areas of luxury or opportunity in Vegas, but it doesn't protect you from the realities around you. Those of you who choose ignorance only add to the problem of taking care of our community.
If you haven't notice in the many threads in here, there's a lot of struggles going on in this town. Getting jobs here is extremely more difficult than other cities due to lack of trustworthy people and illiegal activities.
We all know the extreme fees of car insurance and licenses due the the extremly high volumes of uninsured drivers on our roads.
Look at all the statistics and Las Vegas Valley rates close to the bottom of them all. The newscasters actually jok about it every day. Open the newspaper or turn on Vegas news and see all the incredibly unneccessary (and stupid) incidents where someone was driving under the influence during the day killing people at a bus stop or speeding around the corner and flew through a McDonald's window.
Ever checked out the number of criminals the flock to Vegas looking to hide or incorporate their "business" here? You can go online to find out where criminals and more speicifically pedifiles like to go and the saturation here is a bit alarming. Yes, every city has it's share. but, compared to other places, you can see a trend.
There's no doubt. What about groups of regular kids planning schemes of hitting entire neighborhoods and stealing their stuff. Women in Summerlin, SunCity Anthem, and Newer Henderson get attacked in their own homes during the day time.
Not enough for you? Ever checked the attitude in the general public? The County? The City of Las Vegas?? Hmmm. As someone who's involved with the county and city both on the job and off, I have personally seen how our officals and administrators turn a blind eye and back to the community at large. From lack of support on animal welfare, lack of support on wildlife and environemental concerns to lack of support to the teachers of our schools. Look at our health care centers, what do they deal with on a daily basis? I know EMTs and paramedics that came from other states and towns and were appalled at the common occurence of picking up meth addicts not to mention other abuse, neglect of innocent children, and amount of auto accidents to name just a few. We have to top numbers of auto accidents in the course of one day. Many known as Vegas drivers are some of the worst drivers in the country. I'm from Chicago, I should know bad driving, thanks. The city of Las Vegas and The Clark County are known in the political world as the bottome scrapes of the barrels. If you don't like someone in the department, you send them to Clark County. The County's lack of consisitancy and support of the community's biggest needs are often overlooked and refuse to listen to the public's plea for reform. I have personally watched high officals push rules and regulations on the road and in the community and go on their merry way at breaking those rules themselves. What examples are they making you often wonder.
Random thought just occured to me the other day, I have never heard of teenage girls getting boob implants as their birthday gifts until I came here.
Ever went to the ouskirts of the city or just on the side roads for that matter? Ever seen refrigerators, couches, old condoms, and cars on the side of the road?? Ever seen the road signs on the ourskirts of town the mass amount of bullet holes in them? I swear it's something in the water.
Is there great things about the location of las vegas, absolutely. We have the most diverse natural environments found nowhere else in the country. From the Springs Mountains which is also called "Desert Islands" for the specials ecosystems found on their higher elevations and no where else; to Vegas Wash, Mohave deserts, Red Rock Canyon, Lake Mead, and we are hours away for much more. There's lots of history both historic and prehistoric right at your fingertips. Gorgeous skies and beautiful landscaping, though we are destroying it at an alarming rate. There can be entertainment to be had though most of the time, you need money to do any of it. The community areas are trying their best at improving things and offering activities and recreation to the public, but without the support of the county and sometimes city of Las Vegas, it can only go so far.
Hey, I'm not knocking you who love it here. Great! But, don't stand there and poo poo those that see the realities that do exist around you. Maybe it's just more in the open than in other cities, I am not judge of that. I just agree with others that say this place sucks in so many ways and know many who say the same.
And yes, I will leave when the time comes so you don't have to tell me on this thread. To the rest of you who make it a sucess, there's still hope that good people exist in cursed town.
It does have crime and unsafe areas. So does every big city I know of. It is a quite safe place in comparison to much of the rust built cities.
Insurance rates are moderate for a large southwestern city.
It had a problem with stolen cars and appeared to have fixed it.
It has traffic problems and bad drivers. In my opinion, having driven in most major cities in the US and many in Europe it is better than most.
A middle class suburb in Las Vegas interchanges pretty much with the equivalent suburb in any major city...Atlanta, LA, Phoenix pretty much all the same. Schools, churches, parks, neighbors much the same.
Its bad neighborhoods are much better than most of the east. If you don't know that you don't know much about the east.
It is a relatively easy city to get a job. Why on earth do you think those people keep coming? Like other cities you have to work at it but it is not a hard city to find employment.
and no amount of ranting is going to change all that. You don't like it here.. OK that is your view and you are welcome to keep it. But that does not provide a license to spread lies and nonsense to try and fit Las Vegas into the perverted profile you wish existed. Stick with opinion...your facts suck.
It does have crime and unsafe areas. So does every big city I know of. It is a quite safe place in comparison to much of the rust built cities.
Insurance rates are moderate for a large southwestern city.
It had a problem with stolen cars and appeared to have fixed it.
It has traffic problems and bad drivers. In my opinion, having driven in most major cities in the US and many in Europe it is better than most.
A middle class suburb in Las Vegas interchanges pretty much with the equivalent suburb in any major city...Atlanta, LA, Phoenix pretty much all the same. Schools, churches, parks, neighbors much the same.
Its bad neighborhoods are much better than most of the east. If you don't know that you don't know much about the east.
It is a relatively easy city to get a job. Why on earth do you think those people keep coming? Like other cities you have to work at it but it is not a hard city to find employment.
and no amount of ranting is going to change all that. You don't like it here.. OK that is your view and you are welcome to keep it. But that does not provide a license to spread lies and nonsense to try and fit Las Vegas into the perverted profile you wish existed. Stick with opinion...your facts suck.
You are so right! I'll be back with more facts, thanks for your encouragement.
It is a fact that Nevada law covering public corporations is less protective of noninsider shareholders than that of Delaware law. I will not invest in the common stock of a publicly traded corporation that is chartered in Nevada. I learned that rule of thumb many years ago. For instance, Nevada law of corporations does not require notice to shareholders of calling a meeting of the Board of Directors. And there is no requirement for such a corporation's board to meet before mangement declares a stock split. Check it out.
It is also a fact that there are relatively few professional jobs in Las Vegas for a city of its size, compared with the rest of the United States. This is a by-product of the economic dominance by and number of jobs provided by the Strip casinos.
Casino employment is dominated by jobs requiring little education, and those jobs offer a very narrow 'career path' to a job having a professional status.
Regarding the comparative prevalance of young women getting boob jobs, see the data on same for the nation of Columbia.
before i give my rebuttal to your numerous points, i want to point out that you do not give the positive posters here the respect you ask them to give the LV detractors. we all know there are problems here....its a big city, and it has big city problems (granted, it has problems that are unique to LV, but most places do have their own subset of problems that are worse there than other places).
you refer to us as ignorant and ignoring realities around us, needing protection from them...last time i checked, i live in a very real part of vegas, and i don't ignore its problems. you, as most detractors, generalize everything, including your views of the 'happy' residents. i don't live in an area of luxury or opportunity, as you put it. Myself, and several other of the posters live in downtown...i'm a couple blocks south of charleston, couple blocks east of eastern. i see 'problems' everytime i walk my dogs or walk to the bars or drive to work.
the difference is that i don't characterize the whole city as a slum because i see homeless people. i don't write off all of the people here because gambling is legal and there is a meth problem. bullet holes in signs? really? you don't say? drive around small towns in iowa and you'll see the same thing. drive up in the mts around LA...bullet holes! i grew up in the mts of NM...guess what? bullet holes.
i appreciate the fact that you acknowledge some of the positives of living here, but then you follow it up with this place sucks in so many ways.
it's all a matter of opinion, and while you ask that we don't 'poo poo' yours, you take a crap on ours.
i lived in LA...so i have seen higher cost of living, high auto insurance, exordinate licensing fees, and yes, as wrong as i think it is, i have seen/heard advertizing there for teen breast enlargement (be willing to say that you'll find it in any city w/ a fashion/entertainment industry...maybe even chicago).
just outta curiosity, where are planning on moving in chicago? i know there are areas there rougher, more dangerous, and bleaker than any place i have been to in LV....yet i would never say chi-town suxs because of them.
It is a fact that Nevada law covering public corporations is less protective of noninsider shareholders than that of Delaware law. I will not invest in the common stock of a publicly traded corporation that is chartered in Nevada. I learned that rule of thumb many years ago. For instance, Nevada law of corporations does not require notice to shareholders of calling a meeting of the Board of Directors. And there is no requirement for such a corporation's board to meet before mangement declares a stock split. Check it out.
It is also a fact that there are relatively few professional jobs in Las Vegas for a city of its size, compared with the rest of the United States. This is a by-product of the economic dominance by and number of jobs provided by the Strip casinos.
Casino employment is dominated by jobs requiring little education, and those jobs offer a very narrow 'career path' to a job having a professional status.
Regarding the comparative prevalance of young women getting boob jobs, see the data on same for the nation of Columbia.
Nevada laws tend to be permissive and protective of the incorporator. If you are involved put what you want in the by-laws. Delaware can be tricky as well.
It is a blue collar town. Is that bad or good? Got me. But it is widely acknowledged so it should be no surprise. I would note that the same comments can be made about any high labor factory.
The relevance to anything of the propensity of young women to enlarge their breasts escapes me. I believe the majority of those in the occupations that flaunt physical assets come from elsewhere then Las Vegas.
Yes, for all you complaining about the "Vegas sucks" threads, the monster rears it's ugly head yet again!
Feeling led to speak my own mind regarding this supject, I support those who feel Las Vegas is not the best place to live, and I feel SW1230 has a lot of good points that many of you seem to over look here.
Though it's good to hear many people do have positive results to their lives here, I feel the community as a whole needs to wake up about many things going on in this city. Bless your heart if you are lucky enough to live in areas of luxury or opportunity in Vegas, but it doesn't protect you from the realities around you. Those of you who choose ignorance only add to the problem of taking care of our community.
If you haven't notice in the many threads in here, there's a lot of struggles going on in this town. Getting jobs here is extremely more difficult than other cities due to lack of trustworthy people and illiegal activities.
We all know the extreme fees of car insurance and licenses due the the extremly high volumes of uninsured drivers on our roads.
Look at all the statistics and Las Vegas Valley rates close to the bottom of them all. The newscasters actually jok about it every day. Open the newspaper or turn on Vegas news and see all the incredibly unneccessary (and stupid) incidents where someone was driving under the influence during the day killing people at a bus stop or speeding around the corner and flew through a McDonald's window.
Ever checked out the number of criminals the flock to Vegas looking to hide or incorporate their "business" here? You can go online to find out where criminals and more speicifically pedifiles like to go and the saturation here is a bit alarming. Yes, every city has it's share. but, compared to other places, you can see a trend.
There's no doubt. What about groups of regular kids planning schemes of hitting entire neighborhoods and stealing their stuff. Women in Summerlin, SunCity Anthem, and Newer Henderson get attacked in their own homes during the day time.
Not enough for you? Ever checked the attitude in the general public? The County? The City of Las Vegas?? Hmmm. As someone who's involved with the county and city both on the job and off, I have personally seen how our officals and administrators turn a blind eye and back to the community at large. From lack of support on animal welfare, lack of support on wildlife and environemental concerns to lack of support to the teachers of our schools. Look at our health care centers, what do they deal with on a daily basis? I know EMTs and paramedics that came from other states and towns and were appalled at the common occurence of picking up meth addicts not to mention other abuse, neglect of innocent children, and amount of auto accidents to name just a few. We have to top numbers of auto accidents in the course of one day. Many known as Vegas drivers are some of the worst drivers in the country. I'm from Chicago, I should know bad driving, thanks. The city of Las Vegas and The Clark County are known in the political world as the bottome scrapes of the barrels. If you don't like someone in the department, you send them to Clark County. The County's lack of consisitancy and support of the community's biggest needs are often overlooked and refuse to listen to the public's plea for reform. I have personally watched high officals push rules and regulations on the road and in the community and go on their merry way at breaking those rules themselves. What examples are they making you often wonder.
Random thought just occured to me the other day, I have never heard of teenage girls getting boob implants as their birthday gifts until I came here.
Ever went to the ouskirts of the city or just on the side roads for that matter? Ever seen refrigerators, couches, old condoms, and cars on the side of the road?? Ever seen the road signs on the ourskirts of town the mass amount of bullet holes in them? I swear it's something in the water.
Is there great things about the location of las vegas, absolutely. We have the most diverse natural environments found nowhere else in the country. From the Springs Mountains which is also called "Desert Islands" for the specials ecosystems found on their higher elevations and no where else; to Vegas Wash, Mohave deserts, Red Rock Canyon, Lake Mead, and we are hours away for much more. There's lots of history both historic and prehistoric right at your fingertips. Gorgeous skies and beautiful landscaping, though we are destroying it at an alarming rate. There can be entertainment to be had though most of the time, you need money to do any of it. The community areas are trying their best at improving things and offering activities and recreation to the public, but without the support of the county and sometimes city of Las Vegas, it can only go so far.
Hey, I'm not knocking you who love it here. Great! But, don't stand there and poo poo those that see the realities that do exist around you. Maybe it's just more in the open than in other cities, I am not judge of that. I just agree with others that say this place sucks in so many ways and know many who say the same.
And yes, I will leave when the time comes so you don't have to tell me on this thread. To the rest of you who make it a sucess, there's still hope that good people exist in cursed town.
Here we go again When will these people ever learn!!!!
Well lets see, coming from a town that experiences several murders a day so it becomes known as topping the list in number of murders annually in the country next to Baltimore that in itself experiences at least 250 murders per year, Vegas is a walk in the park. DC has rapes, carjackings, stabbings, gang violence, every day during the day and at night. Vegas is no different than any other city in America; however, it is not close to DC, Baltimore, Chicago, L.A., Philly, or NYC in terms of crime. Spend a week in SE DC and you'll think twice about making a statement about Vegas crime.
Before I left DC, a woman drove into a Chick-Fil-A closing the store for 48 hours. Incidents like that happen on a daily basis in DC, again just like any other city in America.
Regarding drivers, sorry people do drive a little nuts around here, but it is nowhere as nuts as what I experienced in DC with motorcyclists doing wheelies down the Beltway during rush hour. Traffic is quite mild compared to the 2-3 hour commutes each way I have experienced in DC, people in DC experience that every day. Go to the Maryland or Virginia threads and you'll see what I'm talking about on this subject. Insurance rates are not as bad as portrayed.
As far as jobs go, there are tons of jobs out here. What people must realize when considering a move here is that Vegas' biggest industry is hospitality which is where the overwhelming majority of jobs are located. With that said, I was able to land a job while still in DC using my Vegas address (home under construction) and my Virginia cell number (which I still have today). I had several offers 6-months ago and I had 3 offers on the table and more came after I accepted my current employers offer.
Here is what the biggest problem with these posts knocking Vegas. You people who think you know Vegas, don't know jack **** about the town. You all perceive that Vegas is a crime-ridden, meth-addicted, shoot em up, no jobs available except in the casinos, town. One of two things is for sure:
1. You haven't seen the entire town for what it offers!!!!
2. You haven't been to another big city and spent some considerable time!!!
I've said it before, I'll say it again. I challenge anyone to show me in person all the nonsense you think that Vegas posesses, because I'll prove you wrong. Vegas is a great town, it's good for families, there's a ton of stuff to do here.
..i'm a couple blocks south of charleston, couple blocks east of eastern.
oops...make that west of eastern.
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When will these people ever learn!!!!
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