Stripper Poll
What do you hate most about Vegas? [355 votes total]

Taxi lines at the airport (11)
 3%
Traffic on/near the Strip (28)
 8%
Sex pamphleteers (53)
 15%
Children in/around casinos (40)
 11%
The summer heat (9)
 3%
Most casinos are owned by 2 companies (18)
 5%
The local media (2)
 1%
Crowded sidewalks (11)
 3%
Buffet lines at dinnertime (4)
 1%
Prices are getting too high (60)
 17%
Too much Cirque du Soleil (10)
 3%
Rowdy people on incoming flights (9)
 3%
Themed hotel-casinos (2)
 1%
Non-themed hotel-casinos (4)
 1%
Certain Vegas moguls (3)
 1%
Cubs bouncers as shakedown artists (12)
 3%
Clueless pedestrians ignoring crosswalk signals (18)
 5%
Aggressive drivers dissing pedestrians (6)
 2%
Getting stuck behind slow casino walkers (20)
 6%
Blaring speakers outside casinos (2)
 1%
Beggars on Fremont Street (17)
 5%
Something else (Indicate in comments) (14)
 4%
Nothing! Vegas is perfect! (2)
 1%


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Posted By: Ron from Michigan

Posted On: Apr 2, 2008
Views: 1898
Small dislikes; big concerns

While most of the stuff in Vegas is kinda cool, I do admit that some "common gripes" that was expressed on the Stripper Poll are very common, to both vistors and locals alike. In many of the stuff in which the gripes were mentioned, I would have checked more than three (3.)

But the one thing I have to say what I would like to say about this town that really gripes is simply this: a small town in the Mojave Desert trying to be something that its NOT.

Good examples include:

Trying to get a professional sports team here. FACT: No visiting tourist, any local or League Commisioner is going to go for that, especially the latter when it comes to sports teams and gaming. It aggervates the traffic problem further. Plus, it attracts a few "bad apples."

Trying to be all upscale all at once.
FACT: If tourists (especially our fellow Americans)get turned away because of high prices at the resorts, then the ecomony will be out of balance. You can't just rely heavily on our First Class seating and negate the the Coach seating. Most of your money is made in Coach.

Casinos trying to be "hot" and hip with ultralonges.
FACT: While It was a good try in the advertising and promotion of these places, the truth is that they are truly are aimed at people who have an abundance of money, or for the wanabes. For the common tourist or the wise local, it is'nt a wise choice to go especially when you are upsold and pushed into buying drinks and forced to shell out money just to get back into these places. With bad business acumen, occaisional physical altercations and managements that have questionable reputations, many of these club give vegas and the casinos a bad name and a black eye.

Trying to build condos and timeshares on the Strip.
FACT: Though a good try, adding more and more condos where the units that can't be filled is problematic. What the big danger now is the places could become apartment projects, converted into hotel suites (with a casino newly built) or for worse, a wasteful demolition.

People trying to break into the Las Vegas market with a new resort on a whim.
FACT: here's the bold truth: a.) the real estate and lending markets have taken a hit; Vegas is also getting hit, b.) construction costs are high, c.)finnancial lending is tight. Many planned projects (such as the Waldorf-Asotria, the W on Harmon, the Maxim next to Sky apartments, and most recently, the Crown Las Vegas) have all been canceled; the Cosmopolitain is in foreclosure and incomplete. Encore, Palazzo, Trump, are about to be or have been completed. CityCenter, Fontainebleau and Echelon are under way, but anything can happen.

Trying to biuld family homes in and around the City of Las Vegas and the Strip, creating a large suburbia.
FACT: Though you can't knock progress, many of these homes that were built in the last decade were built at the tail end of the housing boom. More homes were planned, and many more were built or being built. When the housing boom crashed, some of these houses have either foreclosed due to short equity, or due lack of new home sales. I would not be suprised (and I fear) if, in future, some of these houses (if not the new neighborhoods) ended up getting bulldozed/backhoed. Another possible waste.

Trying to go against the laws of human nature (i.e.: Trying to schiester people into getting them to beleive they should have a good time by making them, whoever they may be, spend more while givng them less in return.)
FACT: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all the people ALL THE TIME."
-Abe Lincoln; nuff said.

Trying to think that "since we live in Vegas and in Nevada, we don't want federal, state and local regulation and we never want to (and never going to) pay taxes. So leave us alone. And we're never going to anyone except ourselves. And when we start a business, we'll say it's legit even if beneath the surface its not."
FACT: Number 1.)The cutural and business enviroment in Las Vegas and Clark County has changed since the corporations took full control in the mid 1980's. The western frontier is pretty much gone, and many of Vegas' citizens (if not all of them) are going to have to come up with some disipline and a backbone to try to takecare of its own community. If they don't correct it within two (2) decades, the town will have a crisis situation similar what many Midwest cities are facing now (or worse, a ghostown in the form of concrete, marble, glass and steel.)
Number 2. What people give in terms of mindset and attidutde shows a reflection of what the citizens of this town have become; people need to wake up and smell the coffee when it comes to other people's perceptions, especially from out-of-town visiors. Taxes are part of the culture, and the town has laws of its own. Face reality.

Trying to be bigger than it was (in size.)
FACT: The infastructure in town was built for a smaller capacity; it can only handle so much and pipes are getting clogged real quick.

Trying to raise a family in Vegas.
FACT: Though gutsy and brave, this isn't average American suburbia. This is Las F**king Vegas, Nevada USA. Not a place to raise them and send to school. Plus, it's a adult-oriented town and many of the parents do not get involved becasue they are at work....in the service industry or the casino industry.

>"What happens here, stays here."
FACT: Yes and no. Yes, anything happens here does stay here, No, beacasue a.) we know you were here and what you did, b.) its recorded on video, c.) nothing is hush-hush in this town, and d.) casinos and hotels don't stay very long.


Posted By: Troy in Las Vegas

Posted On: Mar 28, 2008
Views: 1955
Pede- strains

When I drove a limo here in Las Vegas I knew where all the spots were that the tourists would cross the street even though the light clearly hand a big red hand, which, I am pretty sure is international for Stop or Don't Walk. (In case you are wondering my favorite spots were coming out of the main enterance of Cearars, the intersection of Harmon and LVB right there at the Harley Davidson cafe and my favorite is the road on the east side of the street just north of Margaritaville.) Anyway, the light is clearly red and they just step right off the curb. the look of terror in their eyes when they see the big limousine barreling down on them was always priceless. Good times.


Posted By: mike_ch

Posted On: Mar 28, 2008
Views: 1901
Sprawl

(warning: locals' rant)

Along with heat and traffic, definitely the suburban sprawl dominating the valley. In a lot of ways, it's responsible for the traffic, as we have nothing except sorta the RTC's MAX line (which only serves a very specific niche) as rapid transit.

Yes, your Weekly column evangelizing the Monorail mentioned that the city does have a working mass transit system, and I use it, too. But commuter rail and subway systems can get people across entire regions in the amount of time it takes me to get from my suburb to the Strip. There's no sort of limited stop, region-to-region solution from the RTC (to their credit, last year they proposed a bus-based one and got gummed up by downtown-area residents.)

One of the reason rail is unfeasible and buses struggle to keep up is because of the rampant growth throughout the valley adding more places to live faster than RTC can connect them all, so once again, sprawl contributes to the problem more than anything else.


 
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