Las Vegas is boring?

[coach belly]

That's not a sentiment I've heard or read too often.

Here's an interesting piece of an earlier thread...

Why did you move to LV in the first place? Honestly, unless you are here for work related reasons, I cant see any good reason to live in LV.

I came to Vegas for retirement. Frankly I'm bored here.

I can see how living in Las Vegas could be boring: I'm climbing the walls after only a few days there.

Would any of you care to elaborate on all this?

What are the negatives about visiting or living in Las Vegas, what makes you find it boring or less desirable compared to other places that you've lived?

[MisterV]

What are the negatives about visiting or living in Las Vegas, what makes you find it boring or less desirable compared to other places that you've lived?

Las Vegas is one dimensional with the focus being on casinos and gambling, and that ain't a good thing.

The weather is too damned hot most of the time to enjoy the great outdoors: who wants to hike, bike or do anything outdoors in the brutal heat of the Mohave desert?

It's a long drive to anywhere where the weather is comfortable.

Of course, I am comparing it to Portland / Oregon, and there's really no comparison when it comes to quality of life.

I haven't been to Las Vegas now for a couple years and have no immediate plans to return soon as I have casinos fairly close by and live in what is probably the best part of the country.

Thanks for asking.

[mickeycrimm]

When you get out of the gambling zones and into the neighborhoods Las Vegas sucks. But the gambling zones bring something to do 24/7. I tried Las Vegas in both 1980 and 1987. Both times I came to the conclusion that I would never have any money working in a gambling town. So I bailed out. Of course, I knew nothing about casino gambling then. Hit the town again in 1992, the gambling wiped me out, but for some reason I was bound and determined to learn how to do it right. After getting a schooling in strategic gambling, took a few years, Las Vegas became the easiest town in America. You don't have to work for anybody or anything. You just have to know how to gamble with an edge and stay away from the sucker gambling.

[tableplay]

Agree that the weather is too hot in the summer, but as an extreme pinball fan I doubt I would get bored there with the Pinball Hall of Fame and other big spots (Flipperspiel, etc.). But the vulture competition is fierce there so I would probably just play pinball most of the time when I visit.

[Alan Mendelson]

I hate going to restaurants to sit by myself. I'm tired of boring dates with women I don't want to be with. Yes, you get tired of playing video poker and craps too.

I had more fun today going to the supermarket and talking to another shopper about the congestion in the parking lot.

[regnis]

Sadly Alan, unless you have a more permanent relationship, it doesn't really matter where you are located. You still are looking at dinner alone and boredom, whether in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, or wherever. Even if you have a relationship, if you don't have hobbies and interests boredom will come.

I am not that much younger than you, but I have always said I wouldn't ever date again if my wife weren't here. Don't have the patience for that game. I will continue to work, albeit less and less hours, as long as I feel I can still do the job well (assuming I ever did it well).

But I never tire of playing the horses, so I always have that to pass the time. VP is good for an hour or two now and then, but I can play horses and never tire of it. Luckily I have many other interests as well. Most of my clients that retired too soon with too much money got bored quickly and tried to get back into other businesses. Unfortunately, it had passed them by and they got murdered. Should have found a hobby and stayed retired.

[Alan Mendelson]

Regnis I wasnt bored in LA. Maybe it was that the "pool" of single women was better? Or maybe that I spent so much time in TRAFFIC that there was so little time left to be bored? LOL

[mickeycrimm]

Regnis I wasnt bored in LA. Maybe it was that the "pool" of single women was better? Or maybe that I spent so much time in TRAFFIC that there was so little time left to be bored? LOL

They got a pool of single women in the brothels up in Nye County. Did you say you had an extra 4 or 5 hours a day?

[Alan Mendelson]

This is going to sound crazy but the easy lifestyle of Vegas does contribute to the boredom.

Consider where I live: everything I need is within a radius of 3.3 miles and there's never any traffic. There's also free, easy parking everywhere I go with no hunting for parking places.

In LA I spent no less than three hours driving every day. Some days it was four hours in the car and then hunting for a legal spot to park.

The stores were crowded in LA, and the only way to avoid congestion in the supermarket was to shop at 2-AM.

In Vegas there's no congestion anywhere but even when my local supermarket had a crowded parking lot today, inside the store there was no wait to check out and no traffic jam in the aisles.

I lived in LA for 30 years and I'm thinking that now that I don't have to spend three to four hours in my car every day that I've become bored with the new free time it gives me living in Vegas.

[MisterV]

alan, do you read much?

I do, it helps pass the time and I enjoy it.

Do you hang out much with your son / his family?

I do with mine and I enjoy it.

Do you work out at a fitness center daily and walk before bed time?

I do, etc.

The point: find things you enjoy doing and build them into your routine.

Caveat: Looking for a woman to give you meaning and purpose is as stupid as seeking salvation in a casino.

[Alan Mendelson]

Hang on there V, I do have a girlfriend now and she's my first real girlfriend in a couple of years (though I've dated frequently).

Go back and read my post about traffic. Really. Give yourself an extra 3-4 hours a day, plus take the wait time out of doing daily chores and suddenly you have an extra 4-5 hours.

If you had an extra 4-5 hours a day what would you do?

How much extra time would you spend at the gym? LOL

[mickeycrimm]

If you had an extra 4-5 hours a day what would you do?

Take a nap.

[coach belly]

If you had an extra 4-5 hours a day what would you do?

Play 18...especially if it was warm & dry every day.

[Alan Mendelson]

If you had an extra 4-5 hours a day what would you do?

Play 18...especially if it was warm & dry every day.

If you really want to play golf, Florida is for you. Many communities are built around golf courses.

[coach belly]

If you really want to play golf, Florida is for you. Many communities are built around golf courses.

Yes, but it's not warm and dry in Florida...it's warm and swampy.

My parents live in The Villages...150 thousand 55+ and still among the fastest growing areas in the USA.

Everybody lives on a golf course, everybody drives a golf cart.

I visit them often...it's a (relatively) wild scene...like New Orleans for grandparents.

[Slash22]

Also the South Carolina area for golf although FL. has many more courses. Cost of living lower in NC/SC.

[regnis]

I spent too many years wasting 3 to 4 hours commuting to and from the office. Then I opened a second office in the suburbs with a 20 minute drive. I now am 10 minutes from work and haven’t seen the downtown office in years.

What do I do with the extra time? I sleep one more hour and work out 70 minutes after work.

Like V I also recommend reading. I have been a reader all my life and it helps pass the time.

I do like the 24 hour aspect of Las Vegas as I am a night owl. In the suburbs here you can’t even get coffee after 9. I do admire your desire to date. I really wouldn’t have the desire to do it. You can always find sex.

[mickeycrimm]

I spent too many years wasting 3 to 4 hours commuting to and from the office. Then I opened a second office in the suburbs with a 20 minute drive. I now am 10 minutes from work and haven’t seen the downtown office in years.

What do I do with the extra time? I sleep one more hour and work out 70 minutes after work.

Like V I also recommend reading. I have been a reader all my life and it helps pass the time.

I do like the 24 hour aspect of Las Vegas as I am a night owl. In the suburbs here you can’t even get coffee after 9. I do admire your desire to date. I really wouldn’t have the desire to do it. You can always find sex.

I have Kindle with about 100 books on my windows phone. I can sit down and start reading anytime, anywhere.

[MisterV]

If I had a few extra hours in my day I'd do the same things I do now.

Since I don't fight traffic like you did in LA I have those extra hours.

I have a seven minute drive to the office, and from there a ten minute jaunt to the courthouse.

Nothing wrong with having a wife or a girl friend: my point is just don't look to her to provide you meaning and purpose.

Are we not men?

Stimulation, companionship, warmth and love are fine and normal, but I do nothing but sneer at guys I see who are pussy-whipped.

Not that you are whipped, but you could be.

[Rob.Singer]

Whether or not you're "bored" where you live is all a very simple by-product of whether or not you have a happy and stable life. Unfortunately, someone who makes a lifelong habit of dating/marriage/divorce/dating is probably going to find fault with a lot of things.

It makes no sense to move from LV back to LA solely for another woman, when the track record overwhelmingly points to the obvious. Is there no lessons learned by now? I would think that Alan would never want to leave LV after living in and around that expensive, freak-filled liberal cesspool called LA. He lives in a decent area away from all the riff-raff, and how many of you wouldn't enjoy being within a few minutes of Red Rock. Hot summers are truly a non-issue.

Life is what you make it. You want trouble, poverty, and misery then you can find it. You want happiness, comfort and safety then you can have it. You want health then you do your best and respectfully treat your body like the extraordinary miracle it really is. It doesn't matter a lick where you choose to live, even if it's in the libtard-infested constantly wet Northwest.