Fabulous Las Vegas! What's it really like here? It's a 24 hour city. It's the only place where you'll find many wedding chappels, strip clubs, night clubs and hotels, motels, and much much more.
But let me start from the beginning... My family and I moved to Vegas from Appleton, WI when I was 14. Back then, I was very innocent and sheltered from the world. Appleton to me, seemed so conservative. So small. But that is another story to be told in a different page. But when our plane landed in the Phoenix airport and when we drove that 6 hour drive to our future home in Vegas... I knew it was going to be VERY VERY different than "America's Dairyland".
Unlike Appleton and most of Northern Wisconsin... Vegas is just so full of DIVERSITY. I was so surprised when my classmates actually knew what I was. And I didn't feel so awkward. In Appleton, the only kind of Asian race they knew was Chinese, Japanese and Hmong. But when I moved here, I was just so surprised that they would know that I am a Filipina even though I do get mistaken for being Hawaiian occasionally... ^_^... And by the way, if the question is on the tip of your toungue... No. We don't live in the hotels. Believe it or not, many people not from here, think that.
 | Vegas is just like no other though. If you feel like you're hungry at 2 in the morning, well all you have to do is hop in your car or walk to the nearest casino and order steak and eggs for $3.00... I mean can you find that anywhere else? I think that's so cool. Especially after being in a late night party at your friends house or something. As a tourist, I don't think you'll ever get bored walking around the strip of hotels. |
I mean do you know any other place where you can be in Paris, Egypt, the Middle East, Rome, Venice, the Orient, and Rio all at the same time? It sounds pretty fun doesn't it? I've lived here long enough though to know that Vegas isn't that great. It's a hell of a lot better than Appleton though but still... Vegas is just your normal boring city after you are used to the tourists and the traffic and the terrible heat and the casinos that come and go.
But I just told you the good things... Vegas also has that other part of it that people know about. I mean what can you say to a city that was started by the MOB? Even our mayor, used to be THE lawyer for the MOB. Strange huh? There are many "Entertainers" here and by that term I would mean... Hookers, call girls, stripers, you name it we have it... It's just put out in the open to you. Half of our Yellow Pages are full of "entertainers"... I am not lying. And you should read the advertisements @_@... You should see some of the Billboard advertisements. When I first moved here, the yellow pages even contained pictures of these half naked entertainers but they passed a law here saying that any suggestive images shouldn't be put there. But really, even without the images the ads are still very suggestive.... There are still peddlers that walk down the streets of Las Vegas Blvd. handing little porn magazines to you even though the law made it illegal to do that also. But hey, you have to make a living right? And if handing out porn to people get you by in life, they my all means, I'm not stopping you.
As you all know prostitution is legal here. Actually it's illegal in Vegas itself but if you go out of the city limits that's when people don't care anymore. About 20 minutes from Vegas, is a small town called Pahrump and in this small town, there's a little place called the "Chicken Ranch". The Chicken Ranch is basically the nearest brothel. Like you wanted to know that right? But I just wanted to point out that in Vegas, we just don't care.
| That's BIG here in Vegas. People just don't care. You do what you want, you do what you please and people don't care one bit. Vegas has this "I'll mind my own business" kind of attitude. Sometimes that's a good thing right? Unlike Appleton, no one knows anyone, even your own neighbors. The houses look the same here, you have to pay for grass, you have to pay to be in a gated neighborhood, you have to pay for anything that you basically got for free in the Midwest and in the East. That was really surprising to me. But anyway, to me, Vegas is... great, though sometimes I really do wish I lived somewhere else. Even though I get sick |  |
Oh yeah, and see that "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign up there? That's one of our most famous "Landmarks" persay. I even had a lady call one time to ask where the sign was just so she can take a piture of it. That was just so strange to me.