I was depressed until

I was really depressed until I read today's news. Vegas yet makes another list of worst cities. This cannot be good.
1. Most stupid
2. Most unemployed
3. Dirty
4. Depressed
5. Foreclosed on
6. Dangerous to pedestrians
7. Allegry inducing city
and now ranked number 5
worst city for retail crime.

Hey that makes me feel better, living in St. Louis, now called "the most dangerous city in America". And I moved there from San Diego for a job...well, at least the suburbs are nice.

LOL--you should live in Ohio. It is right there in the tops of those catagories. Our little town was in the top 10 small towns to live in a few years ago and with the pulling out of DHL we hit rock bottom with over 20 % unemployment and about every other house on the street sitting empty, but hey we still have only 1 of the 5 airports that the space shuttle can land at. LOL I keep thinking things will get better. My children have already moved away to find jobs along with most of the people in their 20's and 30's.

About Vegas--I recently watched a series of films about the mob and Vegas and they talked about the ups and downs of the economy of Vegas. I didn't realize that in the 70's that several casinos closed towers due to the bad economy and lack of business. It also happened in the 40's. Looks like the cycle continues until some creative person has the forsight to put the zip back in Vegas. Project city wasn't the cure.

I don't think what's happening now in Vegas is the same as in the past. In the 70s, there were very few, if any, other places in the U.S. for people to (openly) gamble. Now there are many, with more to come. There were also few foreign gambling centers to rival Vegas. Now there are several, especially Macau, where most of the wealthier Asians are going and which actually boasts more luxurious accommodations than Vegas. What's more, Macau is where people like Wynn are making money and so will continue to develop. China is going to build a bridge between Hong Kong and Macau (50 kilometres) and this will probably greatly increase the traffic to Macau.

I don't think that Las Vegas will ever return to what it was before the current situation. Things might slowly get better, but I doubt they will ever be as before. For some, this might not necessarily be bad as more upscale resorts are willing to court players that they formerly might not have.

It's very difficult to get a good picture of a situation when you're in the middle of it. Perspective on the current economic situation of the U.S. and the rest of the world will only be clear in time, perhaps more than we'd like to admit. In the meantime, it's very difficult to say what's actually happening, let alone what will happen. Prognostication is cheap and easy: you can claim things will get better, or worse, or stay the same. Place your bets.

When you have horrible schools, parks, and recreation nobody wants to raise a family there.
When you have horrible hospitals and random crime nobody wants to retire there.
You are left with people who either work or are unemployed by the gaming industry.

I used to fantasize about getting condo in Vegas as a second home. I wouldn't remotely consider it today. What is a good neighborhood today might be a ghetto tomorrow and until Nevada decides to accomodate other industry and people outside of the gaming industry I dont think its a stable place to call home.

I happen to love living in Las Vegas. The public parks here are far superior and more spacious than what I encountered in New Jersey. I feel very safe here. The difference with living in this relatively small valley is that every incident is newsworthy as opposed to the NYC metropolitan area where a lot of things that are reported here wouldn't even make the local news. And my opinion on employment in Las Vegas is that if you want to find a job here, you will find a job. It may not be in your area of expertise and may not be a high salary, but if you want to work in Las Vegas, you will find something. In the 6 years we've lived here, I've worked for 4 different companies and each time I left a position, I found another one immediately.

You can eat at the finest restaurants here and never run out of options, there's always a show to see and you are close to the most incredible natural wonders of the world.

Larry from Las Vegas

I have never put any stock in media-made lists. They are almost always created from a single indicator. For example, every year Newsweek magazine lists the top high schools in the country by region and nationally. They use only one criteria -- Advanced Placement test results. Lol

What friedmush said.

Who can take that list seriously?
"Most stupid"????
Whom did they poll, the City Center planners?

Well, LV is going through some tough times.

However, the rest of the country is not doing so well either.

It's just a little worse in LV.

This was a particularly bad recession.

I think in time that LV, as well as the rest of the USA, ( and the world for that matter),
will bounce back.

It may take a number of years for a full recovery.

Try living in IL!

IL sucks!