I forgot how some people take everything too literally to handle a literary device. No, not
literally fucking Disneyland.
Most everyone reading this knows Las Vegas only as a fun tourist destination where out of towners gather to forget about our day-to-day lives, ignore the news, drink and gamble and dine, maybe read a little and soak up the sun, stay up too late, perhaps ride a roller coaster or take a helicopter tour, take in a show, go for a swim, have a spa day. We don't consider the reliability or coverage of the local transit system, or fret the traffic congestion. We don't worry about how much it costs to run the air conditioner all day while we're there. We're not the ones mopping those lovely marble floors or clearing the dinner tables, who go home to the Las Vegas we never set foot in: the denuded, sun-blanched suburban tracts that comprise the Las Vegas area. It's similar to how visitors experience other tourist destinations, like amusement parks. Like Disneyland.
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Originally Posted by plutonicpanda
Regarding Las Vegas, I only wish you would tell me how you really felt about it.  |
The constellation of casinos, hotels, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, concerts, comedy clubs, spas, pools, arcades, strip clubs, etc. (I would use the term "The Strip" as shorthand here, but that might be taken literally to mean
only Las Vegas Boulevard itself, and not anything even one foot beyond its paved roadbed) is a major perk for people who want any or all of the above available where they live their day-to-day lives. And it's a perk few American cities can match.