Vegas is now a self sustaining city of over 2 million souls.
The great recession has caused Vegas to diversify which is good.
It’s a place where average people go not just for gambling for to experience glamour and bling. Connoisseurs will sneer, but for “fine” dining, and entertainment it’s awesome. It’s where an office manager in Santa Ana can dress up, go dine at Giada’s restaurant and feel special for a night.
Vegas is actually a good back-office/entrepot/fulfillment location for California. You have companies like Zappos/Amazon, Switch. It’s an international convention destination. And if they can get medical tourism off, then it would work out well.
Weather is always sunny. For 3 months, in the summer, just stay indoors like they do up North in the winter.
With solar energy taking off, Vegas is poised to benefit.
British Airways has 8 flights per keep between London.
Edelweiss has flights to Zurich.
What other low-cost city has such travel opportunities?
And I don’t stay indoors in winter. It’s a lot easier to put on an extra layer than get nakeder than naked. And besides, seeing most Vegans naked would be harmful to eye health 🙂
Low cost of living is good for savings and discretionary income, if ion make the same money.
That’s the selling of commuting from Temecula to San Diego.
You have to make choices based on limited financial resources.
The “every choice is as good as any other choice” argument is fallacious. I mean, some people choose to shoot heroin or smoke crack due to their risk assessments.
yeah, but business people don’t care. They will sell the goods customes demand.
I’m not in love with Vegas so I’ve settled for financial reasons but it’s not a bad compromise. Almost for free, I get to experience things that millions of people save up for.
I was talking to a cox cable rep in Kansas City. She’s been to Vegas once as a child. Would love to return on vacation one day. 44 million people made the trip last year. If you believe in the free market, then the data speaks for itself.
[quote=spdrun]What % of those visitors went by choice vs due to business conventions or for business in the “city?”
I don’t really believe in the free market — most of the world’s population are sheep.[/quote]
EDC was in Vegas this past weekend. That resulted in more than an extra 200,000 very excited people coming, not all of whom attended the actual events.
Sheep or not, if you’re in business you want to take advantage of what people are buying and selling. That’s how you get your share of the economic pie. Kirk Kerkorian just died at 98. He was very good at it.
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EDC was in Vegas this past weekend. That resulted in more than an extra 200,000 very excited people coming, not all of whom attended the actual events.
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I got caught up in that EDC goofiness.
But I do like the old Kraftwerk stuff:
Interpol and Deutsche Bank
Business, numbers, money, people
Computer world
Im driving to Vegas today with a load of furniture from crate barrel fort furnished rental. Just stopped in canyon lake near lake Elsinore to buy something off of CL. It’s an enclave of custom homes on the lake.
The guy lives in big house full of junk. Garage is packed with no room to park. He didn’t tell me but I think he’s in law enforcement.
Anyway he used to live in San Diego and wishes he could get back down. Went to San Diego State then got a job in OC. Now commutes to Chino, 45 min one way (more like an hour because people normally understate and don’t count the time it take to get to the freeway). Not thrilled about the commute, wishes he could live in San Diego. Basically stuck in a big house in the middle of nowhere.
Question is why get a big house in a gated community and commute such a long way when a townhouse or condo would do? Keep the smaller home clean, tidy and airy and there’s plenty of room.
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