Nothing like half built buildings, a dry lake, army bases and desert all around, and mindless zombies roaming downtown to make for an apocalyptic setting.
I was in Vegas once and can confirm it's incredibly depressing to walk through a casino. And they're mostly slots and slot zombies, unlike casinos in the movies.
I’ve gone to Vegas a half dozen times for business and conferences. It’s one of the worst places I can imagine. No plants, no walking. Everything is big and loud and obnoxious and expensive.
I can’t imagine ever wanting to live there. In fact anyplace I would want to live is basically the binary opposite of Vegas in every way.
Las Vegas had the worst luck. Their casinos were fair and most reasonable, but because they also looked so visually appealing, they were used in the thumbnail and header of every major article describing the horrors of gambling in general.
I am in Vegas right now, and I can tell you: most nerds I know would die in this heat. Turn your oven on and stick your head into it: that's what it feels like.
I remember when I first visited San Francisco: I felt like it was home. Right then I decided that I'd move there some day. But Vegas doesn't feel that way. The entire city seems like a mirage: from the fake Eiffel Tower to the fake Statue of Liberty, it all seems so superficial.
For the locals' sake I hope Hsieh can pull it off, but I'm skeptical.
Vegas is a miserable inferno six months out of the year. There is no spring or fall to speak of, though winters are really mild. Education is terrible. Everything is urban sprawl garbage construction. I lived there for 35 years until moving to Denver this winter. You couldn’t move me back to Vegas at gunpoint.
Nothing like half built buildings, a dry lake, army bases and desert all around, and mindless zombies roaming downtown to make for an apocalyptic setting.
And then i realized this was a work of fiction
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