@pissclams seems to hate gambling. this hurts my feelings.
it’s only gambling when you have a shot at winning
the truth is that vegas is a dirty town filled with dirty people living broken dreams. behind the neon sits a truly sad place that I don’t care for at all.
To some degree true, but my sister lived there for a few years. Once you get about 2 miles away from the strip it's a pretty normal town that functions like any other place. It's got amazing weather like 8 months out of the year, and a lot of cool places nearby to go to. Where my sister lived if it weren't for the fact you could look towards the east and squint at the horizon and see the everything of the strip, you'd never known the wiser. Some pretty good greek places to eat near her place too.
The dirty places I think you're references is the stuff just nearby the strip, those are the people who are trying to live off the glow of a very superficial place.