$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas

Re:$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas by acheron on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:35PM (#9142163)

Unless you're moving to the South Sandwich Islands or Greenland, who cares about weather? The idea of selecting a place to move based on weather is completely strange to me.

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Re:$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas by eghri on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:56PM (#9142228)

I can see why you might not mind the Chicago weather, but how is moving somewhere based on weather "strange"? I grew up in Minneapolis but now live in Texas, and the warmer weather has dramatically improved my quality of life. I wouldn't move back to the north midwest even for a massive increase in pay.

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Re:$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas by socrates2016 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:55PM (#9142226)

Look at average highs in Las Vegas: http://www.vegas.com/weather/averages.html

June - September is pretty damn hot. I wouldn't want to be caught outside during the day.

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Re:$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas by ghaff on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @09:26PM (#9142320)

The desert southwest is very hot during the summer. Yes, it is a dry heat. But if it's 110 degrees F, I don't care if it's dry. That said, a lot of people are fine with Vegas, Phoenix, and so forth. They don't get a lot of bad weather (aside from the summer heat), they can play golf year round, and they just tend to stay somewhere air conditioned during the middle of the day. Not my thing but it is for a lot of people. (And while I don't like Vegas, there are lots of nice locations relatively nearby during the cooler parts of the year.)

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Re:$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas by joelrunyon on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:53PM (#9142217)

Have you lived through a Chicago winter?

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