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Originally Posted by Boobzooka
Vegas is populated mostly by transient uneducated poorly paid service workers with no sense of community. I'm only half joking when I theorize that a large segment of the gene pool probably ended up there because some ancestor gambled away all his money and lost their transport out. It seemed like every local I met made excuses for living there and it's only temporary until blah blah blah ...
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I have to say that I was born and raised in Florida. And there were a LOT more transients and bums living on the streets in Ft. Lauderdale than I have witnessed here in Vegas.
There are plenty of them on the streets here panhandling for sure. But in Ft. Lauderdale, we would come out of Summers On The Beach partying at 3 in the morning and the dumpster would have a dozen bums eating out of it.
I've never seen anything like that here.
The "uneducated poorly paid service workers with no sense of community" that you describe are the heavily Catholic pro-family hispanics and the very work oriented Asian communities that are here. I don't think they agree with that racist viewpoint. They work hard, do a good job, get paid, and take care of their families. A lot of people could learn a thing or two from them.
Of course the teenage boys and young men raise hell in certain areas I suppose. That's the way it is in every city with any kind of population. Nothing more dangerous in my mind than a pack of 19 year old guys. They will destroy anything in their path and aren't scared of anything.
But that's the same no matter what town you're in.
BUT, there really is a problem here in Vegas.
And that problem is there are too many goddamn Mormons. They have turned Sin City into Wimpy City. There seems to be a law against anything and everything.
That's the complaint I hear from everyone in town. Not the "danger" or crime or "transients" or whatever other things you guys are dreaming up...Nope, the main complaint is "We are covered in Mormons" lol
Their religious superstitious bullshit is smothering the free spirit of the town.
For instance, The Erotic Heritage Museum recently had painted nude women on the building. Keep in mind, it's in a neighborhood right by the Strip surrounded by adult book stores and strip clubs.
Well, the Mormon community (which never goes to the strip anyway) was "offended". So the Erotic Heritage Museum in "Sin City" had to paint pasties over the nipples of cartoon paintings on the outside wall! LOL!
There is your REAL danger in Las Vegas.
