re: When did Vegas become so ghetto?

Because gambling is really popular with poors and lower middle class people. Upper middle class folk are too smart to waste their money on it and the super rich have their own Vegas where they can avoid everyone else.

Vegas is less ghetto now than it used to be... in the 90s if you weren’t on the strip, it was really bad... crackhead city.

Does Spearment Rhino still have a three stripper per person in the joint ratio?

When the Mob left.

My wife and I were there a month ago. We both noticed that it was way more ghetto than ever. I think part of it is because air flights are so cheap. But, they were hanging out on street corners and riding around in those stupid carts.
The Flamingo was trash but the other nicer casinos had a better crowd of people.

At least most of their homeless population supposedly lives underground.

This thread is taylor made for a TulaneLSU comment.

This isn’t surprising. The entire country is going to shite.

Most 3 star hotels on The Strip that were traditionally $119+ a night plus paid parking are now $39 to $49 a night plus free parking on weekdays.

With everything shutdown in California (including things like salons, pools, and indoor dining), Southern Californians are taking the 3 to 4 hour drive, with reasonable gas prices, for a thrifty excursion to enjoy some of the few liberties that we still have in Nevada.

While they may be staying four to a room and bringing their own ice chest of beverages into the resort, I am currently very grateful for anyone that is deciding to spend money here right now in the midst of a ridiculously hot summer and reminders of the virus everywhere. They are resulting in incremental staffing and that helps churn throughout the local economy (casinos will still run at losses, instead of mothballing completely, if the base hotel occupancy is there).

I know this has been long winded already but Labor Day Weekend will be a good test for the city and may feel a little closer to "normal". Occupancy is looking good and hotel rates are holding.

My parting note. If you are coming to Las Vegas in the near future, first, thank you and second, I would recommend you make dinner reservations in advance. It is encouraging to see the resort corridor restaurants that are trying to go through the motion at reduced capacity are pretty hard to walk-in last minute.

You sound fun.