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Old 10-05-2011, 10:43 AM
 
Location: Sunrise
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We prefer the LAND to the WORLD......
Why? I'd much rather be in Orlando than Anaheim.

At least in Orlando, it's a quick puddle-jumper down to Key West. Sell the Disney tickets and blow the proceeds at the Green Parrot.

I'd rather chew on tin foil while listening to Montovani than spend 10 seconds at DisneyPark.
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Old 10-05-2011, 11:01 AM
 
Location: England
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I don't look at Las Vegas through rose tinted glasses. I read all the different threads here
and elsewhere. It is still the greatest place to visit I've ever found, and I've been to a lot
of different places. We're a bit restricted by my wife's elderly mother living with us, but,
when in the fullness of time she pops her clogs, we'll visit for longer.
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Old 10-05-2011, 11:25 AM
 
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A nice place really for the young crowd for sure. As you get older woudl you want to endure 110 degree dry heat for 5 months? statistics don't lie. per capita it is the most crime ridden city; gambling, prostitution, drugs. But hey we live for excitement, so the heck with that, live it up. roll em' shake em' and win. but not 365 days a yr. A week or two is nice for me
A cursory Google search finds that Las Vegas rarely ranks in the top 20 for crime per capita of large US Cities, much less anywhere near #1.

Sounds like you're trying to correlate a moral obligation of gambling, drinking and a more open sexual environment to high crime and lack of safety. The correlation, in Las Vegas, does not hold true.
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Old 10-05-2011, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Portland, OR / Las Vegas, NV
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statistics don't lie. per capita it is the most crime ridden city
Think again: America's Most Dangerous Cities | Forbes: America's Most Dangerous Cities | Comcast.net
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Old 10-05-2011, 12:18 PM
 
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A nice place really for the young crowd for sure. As you get older woudl you want to endure 110 degree dry heat for 5 months? statistics don't lie. per capita it is the most crime ridden city; gambling, prostitution, drugs. But hey we live for excitement, so the heck with that, live it up. roll em' shake em' and win. but not 365 days a yr. A week or two is nice for me

Wow, people are wrong on here often, but this is particularly extreme. Not sure which of the following applies to you:
1) You just didn't do your research, and are willing to take the gamble that your hunch is correct, hence the ignorant post.
2) You are intentionally trying to deceive people, for some unknown reason.
3) You're one of those people who's too stupid to realize when you're wrong or uneducated about a topic.

You're right that statistics don't lie (assuming correct execution, as well as correct interpretation of correlation vs. causality (which is where most people get all screwed up)). So, please, show me some data that shows 110 degree whether for 5 months? It's usually a few weeks, if that, in July/August. You can check historical weather data here. Please show your own source for true statistics (ie, expected-value with some well-defined standard-deviation).

I'll let other people chime in further about your crime stats, as they're obviously absurd too. Maybe you found something that took the Vegas valley's overall absolute crime numbers and divided that by the number of people living in just what is technically the City of Las Vegas (which is about 25% of the 2 million people that live in the valley....furthermore, there are probably hundreds of thousands of visitors at any given time, seeing as we get 40M visitors a year.....do your homework).

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now and classify you as type #1 from above. Please don't prove otherwise.
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Old 10-05-2011, 12:53 PM
 
Location: Portland, OR / Las Vegas, NV
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Hey Dyn. I think you have another candidate for Pres.
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Old 10-05-2011, 12:56 PM
 
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60 pages? Damn. Of course living in Las Vegas is overrated. Not because there's anything wrong with it but because people imagine living here being nothing like what it really is.
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Old 10-05-2011, 07:59 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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In answer to original poster's question: Yes.
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Old 10-05-2011, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Home!
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60 pages? Damn. Of course living in Las Vegas is overrated. Not because there's anything wrong with it but because people imagine living here being nothing like what it really is.
LOL...yeah 60 pages since 2006. One thing is for sure...Las Vegas keeps 'em guessing!
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Old 10-05-2011, 09:14 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Upstate NY!
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I watched an episode of Cops (in LV) on TV last night...not sure of which neighborhood...Hell if I know what the attraction is...other than gambling.
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