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Originally Posted by originalhypa
A friend of mine is a high up at Planet Hollywood in Vegas and just finished up with the Britney Spears residency. He does really well for himself and has a nice house in the hills. He regularly comes back to Vancouver, but says he misses Vegas. The great thing about Vegas is that it's a polite and relatively safe place to live. Crime rates are low, and the weather is great. For the most part, the people are nice and easy to deal with compared to many big US cities. Like any place in the world, if you have money you're going to have a good time regardless.
But geographically, it's a sandy, brown, flat, ugly place. Job opportunity is based on working in the service industry, prostitution, professional poker, or getting your law degree. The closest cities are Salt Lake to the north, and LA to the southwest. I see Vegas as not unlike living in the middle east. Except with sex, booze, drugs, and western culture.
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You get a tonne for what you pay in Vegas.
My uncle who is pretty much a country bumpkin now (grew up in Vancouver but has lived most of his life in Tumbler ridge and Invermere) is a high up at a massive mining company who’s NA HQ is in Vegas. They offered him a crazy deal to essentially close out his career which would involve moving to Vegas for 4-5 years and being based out of the Hq there
He was going to get a house allowance of like $3000 a month, he said for that you’re getting like a 6+ bedroom house with a pool in a gated community