Las Vegas is a special place that mostly sees people come to town to company , take reward of some shows , and even fall behind a little minute of money . But believe it or not , there are the great unwashed who live here – like , actuallylivehere , and are n’t just here to party a draw . If there ’s one thing out - of - towners are more mesmerised by than the power to drink openly in the streets 24/7 , it ’s the concept of people who call Sin City “ home . ” And boy oh boy does that come with a lot of dumb questions . Here they are , for your reference , so you’re able to never involve them again .
“OH MY GOD, youlivein Las Vegas???”
Yes . And I can actually hear the all caps and multiple query Mark in your voice . finish .
“So what’s it like to live in Las Vegas?”
Like everything and nothing you would require it to be . This is the most outre city in the world to call home . There are the casinos , and the casinos , and the gambling casino , and the casino , and then … California ? It ’s a 24 - 60 minutes - party kind of town , and you ’d advantageously believe that when you live here , you do get capture up in that acculturation ( often whether you need to or not ) . But that aside , there are also the mountains and the fighting out-of-door lifestyles they inspire – hiking , climbing , canyoneering , rappelling , cycling , passel biking , etc . – that are a far call from the Friday night Fremont freak show and tourists in matchingHangovershirts with yard drinks in their hired hand , high - fiving everyone they pass with lexicon reduced to " WOOO . "
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“So, do you live on the Strip?”
Well , no . Well , yes . But not on the Strip you ’re referring to . I live just off of Las Vegas Boulevard , about four miles south of where " The Strip " begins at Mandalay Bay . The most interesting thing in the locality of my building complex are 24 - hour locals bars , an off - brand car renting agency , and flatulency stations that accommodate semis . " The Strip , " it ai n’t .
Most hoi polloi here exist in the suburbs , because go on Las Vegas Boulevard ( even four miles to the south of the start of The Strip ) is terrible . Why ? Because four mi is not enough space to put between you and all of the holidaymaker , drunks , and drunk tourer joyriding down the damn Strip .
“Does everyone you know work on the Strip?”
A whole lot of them do . Hospitality is our main industriousness and it go on the Strip . But the great unwashed here have normal , boring jobs , too . It ’s not all VIP club and porn stars and law-breaking scene investigation , you know .
“Have you seen all of the Cirque shows?”
All of them ? No . A lot of them … yeah . But I work in media , so these thing are free . Actually , everything is free when you know here . Even if you do n’t have link yourself , you hump citizenry who do . Free parties , destitute booze , complimentary VIP social club entry , free show , gratuitous meals , free bombast blah blah . It all get pretty old moderately quick , unless you ’re one of those ace bougie position - thirsty type who get off on it ( of which there are many , and they all turn in Puerto Rico and marketing , and they will all , incidentally , hound you for reporting by ply you with promises of free booze or something like that ) .
That , Quaker , is hollo the Vegas circle of life .
“Have you been to all the clubs?”
I ’m 34 years old . No .
“Have you seen [whatever random Vegas movie they’re trying desperately to recreate on their next trip]?”
Yes , that ’s really required viewing if you require to eliminate your Las Vegas citizenship test . We regard it to be more of a documentary lineament .
“If I lived in Las Vegas, I would lose all my money from gambling all the time!”
As a subject of fact , peoplehavedone that , and now they ’re in Gamblers Anonymous … and are also maybe living in the ill-timed city . Point is : to live here without creating a lot of problems for yourself , you really need to be able to exert some self - control and resist the temptation of Sin City . Or you may decide to go all - in , because you ’re an grownup and there ’s no sagacity here . Just know that go " all - in " is intensely literal .
“So do you just always hang out on The Strip?”
Oh dear God , no ! Most local anaesthetic who do n’t work on the Strip nullify it like the seven seals of the apocalypse … or Donald Trump rally . Every prison term I have to go on the Strip – and I think of have to ( and I signify am being storm to ) – I dread it for days beforehand , and intensely dread it all day moderate up to it , and essay to formulate ways to avoid it . But then I go down on it up and do it , then rattle off a series of " f*cks " like there is a worldwide allotment about to incline out as I seek to find parking in the city - sized garage . Then I ’ll holler about the 30 second of my sprightliness I misplace between parking and walking from the service department through the casino to whatever the hellhole overprice , mediocre restaurant or measure or cabaret I ’m being dragged to . Then I ’ll bitch about the $ 20 I ’m spending on each crappy crapulence with unspecified service complaint and automatic gratuity tacked on to each one , and then about all of the unspeakable tourer and chicks doing the Vegas Girl Walk .
After all that , I ’ll go out early to try and beat the insanity of the post - club parking garages and late night on Las Vegas Boulevard . But then I ’ll get amaze in the insanity and not get home base until after 4 am . Then I ’ll sleep until noon and pass the whole next day angry over the fact that I lose a day of my life because of the stupid Strip . After I ’m done , I ’ll try out right to avoid doing it again for at least six month until the next person I have n’t seen in five years rolls into townspeople assert we simply " must " hang out . Repeat .
“Do you have any hook-ups?”
For … hotel ? Clubs ? Concerts ? eatery ? Fights ? Cirque shows ? drug ? Dudes or chicks ? The short solution is yes . For me , not for you , person I have n’t give ear out with once since college . I ’m actually not even sure who you are , to be true .
“I’ll be in town for three days. Where should I eat?”
LetMeGoogleThatForYou . Are you kidding me ? You have the net . My Yelp is the same as yours , I promise you . The truth is : by the time I get done require you where you ’re staying , whether or not you ’re renting a gondola , whether or not you ’re unforced to pay exorbitant Mary Leontyne Price for taxi and Uber rides , whether you prefer to stay on the Strip or go exploring , whether you ’re down with Downtown , how much you ’re unforced to spend , how many people you ’re in Ithiel Town with , how muchthey’rewilling to drop , how many of you have some pain in the neck - in - the - ass dietetic limitation ( because one of you inevitably will ) , whether you like Mexican or Italian or French or Nipponese or Spanish or contemporary American , whether you ’re examine to be fancy or divey , whether if when you say you want to " experience Vegas like a local " you actuallymeanit ( in which case , see you at PT ’s ! ) or if you mean it in that touristy common sense of " sectionalism , " and so on and so on to even endeavor to make some remotely relevant recommendation , you could have just done it your damn self .
Please sympathise how much time and push snuff it into creating custom-make itineraries for every individual person who should take place to bollix into townspeople . There ’s a reasonableness hoi polloi charge up for this form of service . Also , I write listicles for a living . Kindly come to to one of those .
“Do people there work out, like, ALL the time?”
Yes . Also , the gym often feel like a nightclub , right down to the douchey DJ mix in and on the whole too - well - think - out outfits .
“It must be hot there in the summer!”
It is ! It ’s hot AF !
“But it’s a dry heat though… "
Says someone who has never feel the infernal furnace good time of 120 - degree " dry heat " in the middle of a Las Vegas summer.(But I ’d in spades still take this over Texas or Florida , where it gets into the one C with suffocating humidity . I know when I ’m # blessed . )
“What’s your favorite thing about living in Las Vegas?”
It ’s 75 degrees and cheery through much of the winter , and in the amount of time it would take me to drive to the Caesars parking garage and encounter an empty spot to ballpark , I can already be out hike in the batch . That ’s pretty nerveless .
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