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- acrodev, on 11/17/2008, -1/+47I guess it was time to cash out.
- angusm, on 11/17/2008, -0/+45What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. People, on the other hand, apparently don't.
- kimsun, on 11/17/2008, -1/+29Leaving Las Vegas
- steve9924, on 11/17/2008, -1/+25Maybe this means some good deals on real estate....
- petebot, on 11/17/2008, -0/+20You should apply for a job at your local tourism board...
- tekrat, on 11/17/2008, -0/+19I think it because of all the murders. On CSI I see at least 1 a week.
- davidwasman, on 11/17/2008, -0/+17Anyone else thinking that 10,000 people isn't that much in the grand scheme of things?
The greater Las Vegas area has a population of 2.5 million. Besides, dealers are going where the money is like Dubai. Vegas has seen a decline in tourism over the past year. The money just isn't there right now. Poeple go where the jobs are. - TheUngod, on 11/17/2008, -0/+17Must be all that fear. And loathing.
- brad3378, on 11/17/2008, -0/+14I wonder where everybody is moving to?
I haven't heard any stories about a corresponding increase in population anywhere else. - MindTrigger, on 11/17/2008, -1/+13What are you talking about? Do you even live in Vegas? I lived there for 6 years, but just moved away recently. The fact that you would even say "you won't get anything on or near the strip" is a ludicrous statement considering there is little or no residential housing anywhere near the strip at all, and most of the land development is happening 10-20 miles away from there. Most of "the fringes of town" are modern neighborhoods with medium to high end homes (which were overinflated in value over the past several years). Get online and look up Silverado Ranch, Seven Hills, Southern Highlands. That's just for starters.
You make it sound like there is a strip, and then everything around it is a wasteland, which is a common misconception people have if the only time people have spent in Vegas is getting wasted on the strip. Vegas is a huge, modern city. They even wised up and started taking steps over the past 5-6 years to bring other industries in in an effort to expand business beyond gaming. They have been quite successful at it.
I personally didn't like Vegas because it became too large for me, and I prefer smaller towns. It also had zero culture, and a very transient population. - Mude, on 11/17/2008, -0/+12My guess is they went back home, which is a bunch of different places. When I moved out of Vegas, I initially went back home to Ohio.
- borez, on 11/17/2008, -0/+12They've all been buried in the desert
- TheUngod, on 11/17/2008, -0/+11They don't survey the homeless
- mediaspree, on 11/17/2008, -0/+11didja even read the article?
"The last major population drop occurred in the late 1920s, when the mining industry soured."
and Elvis was BORN in 1935, jerk! - DangerCollie, on 11/17/2008, -2/+13Oddly, it's areas like where I live that pick up population. Remote, thinly populated, largely rural. That's because rents are cheap out here. We've seen an influx of foreclosure families who don't really look like they belong in a double wide. But that's why we get a lot of fixed income people as well. Older folks, the mentally ill, which we call "603" on the radio. Really that's a step up from the dopers and meth labs.
- jsdratm, on 11/17/2008, -0/+10You obviously know nothing about the United States. It isn't breaking apart any time soon. And the interior of the country is not "filth". The midwest provides much of the world with food and contains modern cities like Chicago.
- Dumbledorito, on 11/17/2008, -0/+9I wouldn't move to any place in the desert at the moment. Water infrastructure and delivery is poised to get mighty ugly.
Of course, Vegas is also finally going to start getting electricity from the Hoover Dam (the mayor when it was built didn't want it for some reason that slips my mind at the moment), so you'll be able to keep the A/C on. - Trekhawk, on 11/17/2008, -0/+9Boom and bust. This is the bust.
- KibibyteBrain, on 11/17/2008, -0/+9Yes, the poor Vega star system. They had to sell half their star fleet just to pay for legal fees relating to their financial downfall.
- homercles337, on 11/17/2008, -1/+10Ha ha, i grew up in Reno and we have a saying--remember to flush twice. Its a long way to Vegas.
- KibibyteBrain, on 11/17/2008, -0/+8Yes, but not vacation gambling. Small gambling operations could actually boom as a result. However, all might not be lost for Vegas. They have build up a lot of non-gambling tourism infrastructure over the past decade or so, and so might be able to rebrand during a recession as a low cost family vacation stop for those out west.
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7That's Johnny B Goode, dumbass.
- chrislouden, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7i would be very happy if people left. Granted 10,000 is not a lot. On the average Vegas grew by 6,000 people every month for almost 2 decades.
- cjohara, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7I live in Western Colorado where the Economy is still fine. I've seen an influx of Nevada plates lately. Maybe they're moving here.
- Trekhawk, on 11/17/2008, -1/+7http://instantrimshot.com/
- derbestemann, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6isn't it said that gambling is the only thing actually being recession-proof?
- ElBeh, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6When people have kids, they probably move out of LV. I definitely wouldn't want my kids to grow up in LV.
- Dalhectar, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6From what I understand, Vega was hit hard by the foreclosure problem.
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -3/+9Gambling and $5 coffee are among the things that get choked first in a recession. It's just the way of things.
Vegas is just gambling, no gambling = no jobs..
That town was so full of tourist idiots with their year's savings who would roll-play some character from TV or a movie while pissing away their money, thinking it was fun (yeah i worked there for a summer). They were just marks, or cashpods as some staff would call the older ones. Its a town with nothing to offer America now. - inactive, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5and Elvis was born in Tennessee...
- topgigmedia, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5How many episodes of CSI have their been? Each episode involves one body (at least). Hmmm...
- moulin1, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5A construction worker friend visiting LV last month stopped at a construction site to ask if there were jobs available for carpenters. The super offered to put him on that same day. Like the rest of the country, easy credit and cheap money fueled overproduction in the housing industry. When this bubble burst the workers, just there for the job, packed up and went home. But the core economy is unchanged. When consumer confidence improves it will be back to business as usual.
- sgiffy, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5I wonder how many of those vacancies are in second homes, homes that were never sold in the first place, and people just speculating. Vegas was ground zero for the housing bubble and has been hit quite hard. Not to mention an economy highly dependent on discretionary spending.
- dystra, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5Dugg for the Wayne Newton picture on the right.
- pstroll, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5LV is an uninhabitable desert without a steady supply of cheap energy, resources and casino graft.
http://www.kunstler.com/excerpt_lasvegas.htm - barfooz, on 11/17/2008, -1/+6Don't listen to him, he's just being Dutch.
- petebot, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5Your comment would make sense if it was a pic of Tom Jones. Godammit, people, educate yourselves!
- bwjacket, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4I had my Honeymoon there though.
- moulin1, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4There's nothing to fear but fear itself. But fear is pretty damn scary isn't it?
- CamelToad, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4Everyone I know here was lured by high paying jobs with the benefit of no state income tax. Now, more than half my social circle has been laid off (in fact, I'm on hold with HR right now about my last paycheck). Everybody is moving away (including me, shortly), because this place is a cesspool. Seriously, it sucks. Don't move here. You'll regret it. It's really hot here. And lap dances cost $20.
- Harley77, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5This is probably a good thing. When I lived there, the constant influx of people was actually a growing concern. Las Vegas is better off without the 10,000 extra people.
- DangerCollie, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4Tourists: Not just for breakfast anymore. :)
- etx313, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4Ah yes. It's a good day in the good ol' USA.
- webyatri, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4As they say in vegas, so they say in America : 'The House owns you'
- leerayIG88, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4I agree, Vega really got hurt. Escpially when Ryu did a hadouken!!!!
- VipeNess, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4OMG; thank god; because this place was getting packed! I live here in Vegas and it's wicked during rush hour.
Most people were coming from California but that is slowing down now that almost 45% percent of the homes; which they built TOO MANY; are foreclousured right now. Driving down a street in Vegas is scary times right now. So many for sale signs. - RIPtechtv, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4Looks like Vegas was delt a pair of 8s in blackjack with this current situation. I know Vegas had a small decrease in 2001 and in a few years they came back in a few years.
Well its sort of good news because the West has been in a drought for the past 9 years or so and that area had one of the worst water situations in the US when it came to supplies. - winstonsmith303, on 11/17/2008, -2/+6Maybe because they all realized that paying $3 million for a house surrounded by the world's most annoying people (tourists) in the middle of a gigantic desert wasn't really the best idea.
- secrity, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3Isn't there a great taco place in Reno? Reno 911 shows it quite often; a gay guy on roller skates works there (maybe).
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3As for where people are moving to don't look in the Midwest, they don't want you to find them.
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