[JonVegas]

It's funny that the In Business article mentions the Conde Nast Traveler magazine top 100 list because I happened to read it in a waiting room this week.

It's also funny that the only reason I picked it up was to find pictures of Las Vegas and see where it ranked. I was a little bit stunned when I couldn't find it on the list.

I guess I just don't understand how Las Vegas could be overlooked like that considering the amount of visitors and touristy things here. Don't get me wrong, Frisco and Chicago and all those places are way cool but they're not Las Vegas. Any city that has a "last call" would not be on my list of places to spend a weekend away from work.

Traveler magazine readers can feign sophistication all they want. I don't believe they actually like spending their vacation taking in bohemian charm and sampling hippie food at some secret hookah bar in an even more secret section of Frisco. In truth they are all going to make a least one Vegas trip this year and on their way home they'll lament losing the kids college money (again). Then they can get their payback by snubbing the city in their pretentious little list.

I'm getting a little sick of the condescending "not a real city" attitude. It implies that the citizens are not real people. I disagree. Travelers magazine can stuff it.

BTW. Travelers is filled from cover to cover with Vegas ads.