Las Vegas at a Glance…
Van September 2nd, 2010
My perusal of the RJ this past Sunday filled me with a sense of ambivalence. Of course plastered on the front page was the big news about Paris Hilton’s arrest on cocaine possession. Who’d have guessed? For more on this click here.
Besides this, there were many items which didn’t give much of a sense of warm and fuzzy. I won’t quote the RJ, so as not to incur the wrath of their new copyright attorney, but a review of articles goes like this (according to my feeble memory):
Item – A poll that people in Las Vegas are not feeling secure with the economic conditions in town. That’s no big surprise, but the same poll found that people don’t hate it enough to leave.
Item – A full page advertisement/announcement of Station Casinos having their reorganization plan confirmed by the court, which paves the way for the Stations to come out of bankruptcy as a viable company.
Item – Forbes magazine has found Las Vegas to be the most stressful city in the US, this two weeks after the same Forbes magazine found Vegas to be the “Coolest City in America”
Item – on the Sun front page that a middle class man is about to become homeless as his home is foreclosed.
This coupled with subsequent news from other sources that 3 out of 4 mortgages in Nevada are underwater, i.e. the house is not worth the balance of the mortgage, can give one a sense of hopelessness, and perhaps even dread. No wonder this is the “most stressful” city in the US.
At the same time, this really is the coolest city in America. I’ve told out of town friends that it’s a pretty good town to live in, with an incredible entertainment district. On any given night in this town, we can see any number of big name rock and roll bands perform, and then there’s always the Cirque shows (are we up to 10 different ones now?), and, of course, any number of vices are indulged and even encouraged in this town, if you’re into those types of things.
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