i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.
like this shouldnt be possible.
Every part of Vegas feels like it's pulled out of fiction and is Incredibly off-putting. It's a major city in the middle of one of the world's most inhospitable deserts
Its famous for recreating other world landmarks on a small scale. It uses this as a trap to bait people into making life ruining decisions. It's motto is essentially "never speak of what happened here". Fucked up
My husband went to a conference there. (Unlike physicists, engineers have enough money that they're willing to pay some of it to make the little wheel go clickity for a while, so they haven't been disinvited yet.) He didn't mind that, because he was never going to go for a regular visit, but this way he'd get to see Vegas.
We were looking through some of his pictures afterwards, and when I pointed out that the hotel with the open-air "canals" was making me feel extremely uncomfortable he fully agreed that it's not a comfortable place to visit.
Those fountains and canals? Gray water. Vegas is atrocious, but they do recycle their water very efficiently.
That's reassuring, but still way too much exposed water for in a desert. Especially since water that evaporates doesn't go to replenish any of the sources where Vegas draws water.
