Really it makes great sense to me. The casinos are a world of their own. Hardly any Las Vegas natives go there. Honestly, given my brief time spent with someone actually from Las Vegas, I'd say the invisible wall between the Strip and the rest of the city is probably as good a deterrent as many international borders.
Also, there's a chance your stats are being thrown off by the fact that Las Vegas the city doesn't have very many world-class casinos. All the popular areas are actually in unincorporated Clark county, in an unincorporated community known as Paradise, NV. Make sure you include those.
You do realize that sort of stuff doesn't happen anymore. Vegas became incredibly corporate after the mob got kicked out. Maybe that sort of thing still happens elsewhere but I would be surprised if it happens anywhere in the US anymore. With the exception of completely illegal shady underground casinos.
But is that based on residents, or actual number of people in each? I'd imagine tourists/visitors to Las Vegas must greatly outnumber the population itself.
Indeed. Vegas is about as sanitary and clean as it gets. There's almost no sleaze left. Fremont at night can get sketchy, but only in the sense of desperate poor people.
But I guess that's how good they are at selling the myth of Vegas. They want you to believe it's wild, sexy, out of control, and naughty. In reality, it's all highly regulated, calculated, and completely under control by large corporations.
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