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Published Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 | 11:46 p.m.
Updated Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 | 3:20 a.m.
Aria opens its doors to the public
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CityCenter's Aria has opened its doors to the public. Fireworks exploded over the centerpiece of the $8.5 billion CityCenter project, and people eagerly awaited to be the first inside Aria, which is a partnership between MGM Mirage and Dubai World.
CityCenter's Aria Makes Debut
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CityCenter's Aria makes it long awaited debut to the public.
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After a two-minute fireworks display, the Aria Resort & Casino opened its doors to the public late Wednesday night, giving tourists and Las Vegas residents a glimpse inside the centerpiece of CityCenter. It is an $8.5 billion project many have watched evolve since its inception five years ago.
That evolution has not been without adversity. Construction defects and a sharp downturn in the economy persuaded MGM Mirage to top off the Harmon hotel to half its proposed size.
Six construction workers died during the building of CityCenter.
And, it opens during the worst recession since the Depression, appealing to a shrunken class of high-end consumers.
But Wednesday was about celebration.
Crowds began to form outside the resort several hours before the first guest walked in at 11:41 p.m. They lined up along CityCenter Place, the main road leading to CityCenter.
When the doors finally opened, visitors were welcomed with applause by some of the complex’s 12,000 new workers. And a crowd of local and national media were on hand to capture Aria’s public debut.
Dealers were eager to pitch the first cards of the night, cocktail waitresses were ready to take the first drink orders and rows and rows of bright slot machines were asking to be played.
By midnight, visitors jammed the casino floor, flooding in from every entrance and making it difficult to move.
“It’s very exciting. It’s really beautiful,” said Maryann Sherman of Las Vegas, who was among the first to see the new casino.
Sherman and her husband, Lester, moved to Las Vegas from Kansas about five months ago but said they have been following the progress of the project for years.
“I came home from work at 7 o’clock, and she had been waiting to go all day,” said Lester Sherman, who waited outside for about 30 minutes before the doors opened.
They promptly sat down at a penny slot machine to try their luck. “We decided we need to be whales to get private invitations to parties,” Maryann Sherman said jokingly.
Before the public opening, Aria hosted a private party for VIPs and other invited guests, who sampled the resort’s culinary offerings and took in its amenities.
Among the guests at the opening-night party was George Maloof, owner of the Palms, who was getting his first look at the property.
“It’s a beautiful place,” Maloof said, admiring some of the detail of the modern design as he entered near Aria’s front desk. Like other guests in attendance, Maloof said he planned to walk through all the public areas and discover some of Aria’s surprises.
Earlier in the afternoon, at an opening ceremony, CityCenter executives CEO Jim Murren and President Bobby Baldwin applauded the efforts of the employees who will be working at the development and thanked representatives of the various development teams that had representatives in attendance.
Aria — the crown jewel of CityCenter, as many MGM Mirage execs refer to it — is the fourth building to open after weeks of phased unveilings on the 67-acre plot of land between the Monte Carlo and Bellagio.
The casino-resort’s opening comes on the heels of condo-hotel towers Vdara and Mandarin Oriental and the high-end retail mall Crystals.
Few Las Vegas visitors can say they’ve seen the project progress like Carol and Wallace Mouzon have.
On a trip to Las Vegas in 2006, the couple witnessed the implosion of the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino from their hotel room at the Jockey Club, making space for what would be the multi-billion dollar urban metropolis. More than three years later, they were coincidentally back to see what came out of the rubble.
“We were staying in a room facing the Strip and by the time I called my wife over to the TV to see what was going on, I heard a big boom. I was able to see it simultaneously on TV and out our window,” Wallace Mouzon said.
The Mouzons, who live in Atlanta and have a timeshare in Las Vegas, decided they had to check out the grand opening celebration. The couple stopped to sit down for a drink at Bar Moderno, one of the few that wasn’t filled on Wednesday night, to escape the crowds on the casino floor.
“It’s really great, so opulent,” Wallace Mouzon said. “We’d like to stay upstairs sometime. I hear the rooms are really reasonable, too.”
The 61-story tower features a 150,000-square-foot casino and 4,004 hotel rooms, including 568 suites. The contemporary rooms, with clean lines, chrome accents and wood paneling, have nightly rates ranging from $149 to $799. Suites run $425 to $7,500.
The resort will welcome its first public guests Thursday evening, and Baldwin said about 1,500 people were expected.
Justin Chase and Victoria Rachels of Dallas came to check out the resort after purchasing tickets to Cirque du Soleil’s resident show at Aria, “Viva Elvis.”
They wandered through the casino floor, checking out the restaurants and stopping in the casino’s race and sports book.
“It’s huge, and it’s just a big maze to us right now,” Rachels said, repeating a statement of many at the grand opening.
But for the little time Rachels and Chase were inside the resort, Aria made a big impression.
“We’re thinking about seeing if we can switch our room from MGM Grand over to here,” Rachels said.
This calls up an uncomfortable fact for MGM Mirage: Some analysts, including at UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research, fear CityCenter will merely cannibalize business from its other properties. Others, including the local consulting firm Applied Analysis, point to the openings of new resorts in the past and believe CityCenter will bring new business to Las Vegas.
From the poker room to the restaurants, bars and lounges, every part of the resort was brimming with people.
Mila Gomes and her friend Brooke Wisemer found what seemed to be one of the few open spots in the resort, the VIP gaming area, to grab a drink.
Gomes, a nine-year Las Vegas resident, said she thinks CityCenter is bringing something fresh to the Strip.
“I think a place like this is going to bring a lot more business to town — the restaurants, the shops, the bars and especially the nightclubs,” Gomes said.
Gomes noted the warm yet contemporary feel of the resort, wondering aloud who helped create some of Aria’s signature spaces.
“I’d like to bring friends from out of town or out of the country down here,” Gomes said. “It’s definitely a place I could see myself hanging out at.”
Welcome Aria in serving people. Good luck people in your playing at Aria.
Aria does look beautiful and well done.
I love the Mirage, and I will give you a visit on my next trip.
I'm looking forward to visiting the Spa and seeing Viva Elvis too.
I'll be down before the end of January.I intend to stay at Aria,I want a close up look at 8.5 billion worth of modern architecture,art etc.The walkways and sights I anticipate will be like no other in Vegas and hopefully any where in the world.Vegas has just become a lot more interesting and classier.
Boy did the crowds die out early, From what I could see, this is a great place to SEE, but as far as long term, they have problems.. If opening night crowds die out after 2am,, that says it all.. I pray I am wrong,, I have to say EVERYTHING seems way over priced for locals, So when my friends and neighbors ask about it, I will say nice place but BANG for you BUCK... Lets go somewhere else,, I saw lot of locals with the same reaction...
Think about this... If 2 million locals have that same reaction ,that means that this property just lost 6-8 million visitors a year.. Can they afford to miss the mark on that many guests,, Like I said , I hope and wish well, but Oh boy do we have problems !
Lipstick on a pig.
Where are the thousands of people rushing the casino? I only see about fifty in this shot...
This place was not built for the locals it was built for the tourist that have money to throw away on a good time then back to the airport for a flight home to the real world.
City Center's/Aria's two breathtaking curvilinear steel and glass towers?
It's amazing how the architectural design of the original Cascada Resort has inspired and changed the Las Vegas skyline.
When in 1997 the two curvilinear "gold/bronze" towers of the Cascada Resort (which was slated for the property across the Sahara Hotel, and the Cascada has not been built) were introduced to Las Vegas casino developers and its design was "shamelessly" promoted throughout the world, hardly anyone gave the Cascada Resort design idea and concept even a remote chance to ever make it to reality. Back then, in 1997, casino resort operators where still gung-ho on rather cheesy themed resorts (as of today's standard) which frequently used rather lame three-prong block structures.
The Cascada Resort design concept offered a completely new viewpoint and a brandnew vision with its two connected breathtaking curvilinear towers and an emphasis on superb architectural style and instead of themes, the expression went to rather elegance and superb customer service with larger rooms and a whole array of amenities (a rarity in Las Vegas hotel rooms in the 90s) for the resort which would last for decades to come.
Well, a bit over a decade later, several new Las Vegas megaresorts look a lot like having taken much inspiration from the original Cascada Resort design concept. We can note that in 1997 the designers of the Cascada Resort design and concept gave us a glance into the future and they have successfully inspired and shaped the new skyline of Las Vegas of excellent mega resorts for decades to come.
We will be in Las Vegas for Christmas. Aria is a must see on our list of new things to do.
scherf_com :
I'm afraid your appreciation for the architecture in City Center is not enough to impress the 13 percent of the population here out of work. This place should have had huge signs out front last night saying EVERYONE WELCOME ! and they should have had lines of tables with free food and drink for all!
environprotector :
You're right with the high unemployment rate in our town, but we think the unemployment rate is more due to a general economic correction/downturn in 2008 than the construction of e.g. CityCenter which in effect has actually provided many thousands of construction jobs and now thousands of permanent jobs at the resorts/project.
While unemployment is a national issue after a huge upturn and economic growth for many years, a correction had to be expected, ... of course, the correction is far deeper than anyone expected. The problem of course is also the policies of the current regime in Washington which is Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Business and Washington in effect actually hurts our economy on a national level even further.
But CityCenter has been a job creator and it will bring more tourists to Las Vegas and in effect bring dollars to us here in Las Vegas and eventually provide for more jobs down the road.
That's also why our admiration for the CityCenter design should be taken as a great positive, because as history shows us, great exceptional architectural designs (like e.g. the Guggenheim in NY and in Bilboa, Spain, etc.) will definitely bring new faces (tourists) to our town and therefore more dollars which in effect of course creates more jobs and provides economic success for our great city for decades to come.
It's a new era, and things will turn out very good for Las Vegas and it's important to have exceptional properties like e.g. CityCenter in order to produce the "Wow" effect over and over again for many years to come as such properties will bring more and more visitors and consumers to Las Vegas. Wishing you all the best for the season and the new year, and let's keep a positive attitude and appreciate the phenomenal step of faith, effort and undertaking by MGM Mirage and Dubai World with CityCenter.
Lets all hope its the sign of things to come - getting us back on track to employment and more visitors..Remember the ol' saying - if you can't say something nice, dont say it at all cause you'll be the ass..
Scherf, let me tell you this: Crystals has ZERO wow-factor. If I wanted to see a mall with 95% white drywall then I would just stay in a one-bedroom apartment and shop online with my computer.
The emperor has no clothes. There, it's been said. Whether MGM wants to admit it or not, CityCenter opened up in the worst economic period since 1982 and 1929. To think that a massive high-end resort that is NOT finished is going to save their company is insane in this economic period. And one other thing, MGM wants to save THEIR COMPANY, not Las Vegas. MGM is a business and thinking otherwise is absolutely foolish.
I started a general contracting business in 2007 and it failed. It was my fault for not looking down the road and getting a better feel for what was going to happen in the economy.
None of the big-wigs at MGM will ever admit that they should have slowed down and thought out this massive undertaking before completely oversaturating the market with condos, casinos, and retail shops. MGM is in debt and at best we will see debt restructuring and at worst we will sell MGM sell properties for 50-cents on the dollar. Think T.I. and Phil Ruffin. I bet MGM's accountants have their resumes out everywhere because they know how bad it really is.
And here is what nobody wants to admit in the gaming industry here in Las Vegas, there is gambling EVERYWHERE now and Vegas is OVERPRICED.
In 1982, Vegas had the "competitive advantage" of being one of the few places in the world with legalized gambling. That has definitely changed in the last 27-years. There are hundreds of casinos offering value to their in-state clients and they have been stealing the Vegas market share for years now.
I love Vegas, I've been out here the last 8-years but the train of financial correction is coming down the tracks whether you like it or not. If you want to call my post negative, fine. But if a bus was coming down the road and about to hit a friend, wouldn't you warn that person?
This town is going to suffer until discretionary income returns to the middle class. The earliest that will be is 2016. Tighten your belts Las Vegans because the Option-Arms and Alt-A loans are going to reset into 2012 and you can bet that unemployment won't drop from 10% to 5% until we purge all those bad loans from the system. That will take another four years. That's where I get 2016 from.
Go to www.bls.gov to see how long it took America to get from 10.8% in Dec. 1982 to 5.7% in Dec. 1987. That's five years. Think it's going to be better this time? Don't drink the kool-aid. You've been warned.
One other thing, I work in the Street of Dreams in Monte Carlo and the stores were empty last night. I walked around and checked in with all the stores.
We were toying with idea of staying open past 11:00 p.m. to catch the "rush" due to the fact that you have to park at Monte Carlo or Bellagio to get to CityCenter if you self-park.
There was no rush. Opening night at CityCenter and we there was no difference in business.
If CityCenter was supposed to be the savior of Las Vegas, then I'd be extremely worried right now if I were a business owner.
CityCenter is a shiny new toy, but nobody in the middle-class can really afford it.
And if you pay attention to the reports from McCarran Airport, we have less visitors and if you pay attention to the reports on how taxable sales in Clark County have gone down the last 18-months it should be obvious by now.
Less people are coming, and those that come have decreased their spending.
2016 people... 2016...
Tighten your belts, reduce your personal overhead and hold on tight unless you've got a rich uncle with an open checkbook. We're not even close to getting through this.
(But here's some positives from me this morning, I think we WILL get through this, but it's going to be longer than anyone wants to admit...)
Sorry, I meant to say this in my third paragraph:
There was no rush. Opening night at CityCenter and we closed at the usual time because there was no difference in business.
Sorry, I meant to say this in my third paragraph:
There was no rush. Opening night at CityCenter and we closed at the usual time because there was no difference in business.
Patience people. December is always slow. That is probably why they opened it during the holidays. If you think that place is going to turn the whole city around in one night, I have some land in Pahrump I would like to sell you. I will sell it for $1 and will be worth millions tomorrow.
3Putts :
And I've got a talking dog I would like to sell you LOL!
Can CityCenter pull Las Vegas out of recession?
Only the local media gives CityCenter a pass:
The architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune says "The verdict? No jackpot."
The Los Angeles Times' architecture critic says "Culture Monster .... a palace ... for the age of towering debt and easy credit. They should have put Alan Greenspan's face on the poker chips .... ambitious but not really adventurous, chasing bigness if not big ideas .... it might at least have pursued a wilder, more inventive and more entertaining kind of architectural gigantism .... [Crystals] a hulking shell for Prada and Gucci boutiques."
Bloomberg's architecture critic says "CityCenter struggles to find its tone .... this architectural bouquet never forms a crisp, readable ensemble. Instead the massive towers elbow each other impolitely .... Some architect of talent should have been put in charge of the baffling spaghetti of sidewalks and roads. They could have become a glorious whirl of human and vehicular movement .... Aria's casino .... all that's missing is George Clooney grinning crookedly in a tux."
Of course, the Eiffel Tower and New York City's Twin Trade Towers were deemed ugly when first introduced. It was said that instead of putting up the trade towers,they put up the boxes the towers came in.
I'll be checking it out friday. Probably gamble a little while I am there. Good Luck!
vc:
Report back and tell us how you liked the gambling. No one that has gone speaks of that! All the locals should go and spend $20 and report back.
PS The CC opening even hit the local news here in our "Middle America" small metro area! I had to laugh when I saw the piece! Especially the bit about the 12000 jobs. My one friend in Chicago works at Fox TV and they had people in Vegas last night but she didn't say on how they reported everything and what they thought. She already knew the backstory with City Center since I always send her and another friend articles from the Sun here. So they were not impressed by all the spin about the opening. They know better!
lvdjlv :
You're basically correct and I feel with you that your business went under ... that's always difficult.
But I think we need to focus on the enormous potential of Las Vegas. I've been around Las Vegas on and off since 1980 and I've seen the really dark days of the early 80s and then the phenomenal revival of the 1990s which took Las Vegas to a completely new higher level.
Your points on wide-spread leaglization of casino gambling across the U.S. are well taken and yes MGM is certainly with CC concerned about the survival of its own company, but a revival in general into Las Vegas is needed for MGM and the other companies to survive. So after the opening of several nice properties over the past few years, the CC is yet another milestone and peacon of hope to attract even more folks to Las Vegas.
Sure, we too have our doubts that CC will survive as a stand-alone project, mostly because of the massive debt, the unsold condos, and the massive available space that's basically empty. And calculated on a per sq.ft. basis we think that companies like Wynn will continue to far exceed most other properties.
And yes we know that Station and Harrah's are not doing that good. And for the residents of Las Vegas, foreclosures will most likely rise in 2010 again. The good thing is that regarding residential real estate, Las Vegas has become one of the most affordable places to purchase residential real estate in the U.S. Even a place in the boondocks cost a lot more than a nice single family home here in Las Vegas.
Regarding jobs, we can only hope that finally a new Governor is able to revitalize the State of Nevada by being a real active Governor with a vision and the can-do attitude and implementation of bringing new businesses to Nevada. As an example, I can't imagine why anyone stays in Southern California: there are high taxes, smog throughout L.A., etc. and a bureaucracy that's hindering business everywhere. It's a great time for Californians to move to Las Vegas.
Pessimism has surrounded Las Vegas since Bugsy Siegel built his Falmingo and for decades over and over again people have spread doom and gloom about Las Vegas. The result though is, that Las Vegas has expanded and grown like nobody could have ever imagined and Las Vegas is a great place to live. It's just an economic cycle and that means there are valleys and mountain tops. I could live anywhere in the world wherever I wanted to, but Las Vegas is just a special place and I knew it when I first came here in 1980, ... it's a great place to live and to raise a family, ... and overall all of Nevada has so much to offer and there's opportunity left and right everywhere. We're just hoping that a new Governor will go actively to work to make Nevada #1 in the world as it has this potential.
I hope U.S. banks are not on the hook for 8.5 Billion in loans that paid for this luxury 4,000-room, 61-story City Center complex. Is there any logical reason to believe plummeting visitation to Las Vegas will turnaround during the next 10-yeas? Congress just to pay the interests on 14 Trillion in current Taxpayer debt, will have to greatly raise income taxes; that will scale back money tourists have to spend at places like Las Vegas. Even if the economy managed to turn around, after the shock of this horrific recession it is unlikely Americans will for years return to the drunken sailor spending of earlier days that supported many hotel casinos.
The irony of economically destroying one's self attempting to do the same to others seems to define poetic justice.
BTW: MGM is currently trading at $9.93/share, less than the minimum required admission for a table-game perch.
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Scherf_com :
Your forgetting that we ARE in the boondocks, with no jobs to offer potential home buyers of all of our discounted forclosure homes here in the valley, so they may as well be offered for 100 K each, and still no one (except corporate carpetbagger investors) without a job or any chance at getting one in the forseeable future is going to move here and make a purchase..
2016. That's when Vegas will rebound. Four years for Option Arms/Alt-A loans to reset, four more years for unemployment to get back down from 10% to 5.5% and then people have disposable income.
CityCenter, Palazzo, Encore, and Aliante opening haven't done anything to change the fortunes of this city and they're all beautiful resorts.
Las Vegas is an "effect" of money, not the "cause". When people who are out there creating things and doing things that cause the creation of money, then they come to Las Vegas and spend it their money which is the effect.
The nation's economy is in the toilet. It is not recovering before 2016. Las Vegas will suffer until everyone else has money again and not one minute before.
And scherf, I don't trust any politician be it Republican or Democrat to fix anything in a singular term of office. Be it a Mayor, U.S. Representative, Senator, Governor, or President.
They're too busy making sure the special interest groups are taken care of, not to mention their own personal agendas and side projects.
But get out of line, and you'll disappear just like you were in a third world country. Kind of scary, but it's true. We've become the big fat king across the ocean we despised back in 1776.
That is the world we live in. Whoever has the gold, makes the rules. And right now, the few people who have gold aren't spending it. Probably because they have access to information that we get after the poop hits the fan.
Las Vegas has to ride out the financial storm until 2016. Hope you all reduce your personal overhead to rent, food, cheap cell phone (I recommend CricKet), gasoline to get to your job if you have one, electricity, and gas if you're a SWG customer. I did. Ride it out people. That's all we can do as the worker bees.
So where are the jobs going to materialize as a result of the 30 billion dollars Obama wants to spend on the war in Afghanistan?
Is it just me or does it look like they shot off fireworks from the rooftop ? I could swear last new years it was against regulations to shoot fireworks off from the rooftops and thats why they had a sucky fireworks display for new years that hardley anyone saw and left many dissapointed!
hey this looks exciting i plan on visiting it soon im from qatar!!
Sherf-com, that is exactly the problem with this city. The whole Californian movement here. Ask me this, are people that stupid to move here when there are no jobs? I guess so, cause I run into alot of idiots that say I moved here and got a house really cheap. Great, but I don't have a job. You will get what you pay for. My advice, californian, live a little, stop sucking the wind out of this state and be a little more adventurous. Moving over 1 state does no constitute that, ha!
How disappointing....we actually moved out of Las Vegas last month. I was waiting to see the news coverage of the opening and ...well close to nothing here on the east coast! The MGM MIRAGE advertising team should be fired- this is a huge event. The morning news shows should have been there braoscasting from the property- much like what Matt Lauer did for the opening of Wynn.
Considering that this is one of the largest LEED certified group of buildings in the United States you would think they could get the media to discuss that nationally and internationally -especially since the conference on climate change is taking place this week. That would have promoted it and it would have been an angle for the news media to cover it more in depth.
Pretty sad...what a waste of what could have been a good thing for Las Vegas promotion!
"Sherman and her husband, Lester, moved to Las Vegas from Kansas about five months ago but said they have been following the progress of the project for years.
"I came home from work at 7 o'clock, and she had been waiting to go all day," said Lester Sherman, who waited outside for about 30 minutes before the doors opened.
They promptly sat down at a penny slot machine to try their luck. "We decided we need to be whales to get private invitations to parties," Maryann Sherman said jokingly."
THIS is what is going to happen every night until the novelty wears off,,these people took off work early,and waited until midnight to what?? play penny slots,,ROFL.
The clientele running through the doors were probably given a token chip to raise their hands,,what a joke the opening was.Do these people in the picture really look like the clientele that can afford this behemoth.
NO,im not generalizing,just keeping it realistic,which is what the arrogant casino executives should have done.
the casino was dead at about 3 am,only 3 hours into the opening
peace out
lets put it this way....sat down at a roulette table this morning and bought in $300, they handed me 12 colored chips. Laughed and colored up.
Would you consider building an empty office park around a worse version of the M resort, moving all of it in betwen Monte Carlo and Bellagio, triple the prices, 10X the minimums, put a little lipstick on her and name it "GAME CHANGER"
Looking at that picture of the opening night crowd,,,,,,,,Uhhh,,, I think they act like they are at a footbal game doing the WAVE of some sort. Don't look all that enthused for the home team somehow. Mabe if a few more people rushing in waving their arms..
This opening was a joke!, not to mention that fact that the whole production, fireworks, ribbon cutting etc. were observed by several hundred people mostly employees, and the people rushing in were simply by standers who happened to be in the right place at the right time...
I stopped by Aria after work last night. The comparisons to the M-Resort are valid. They are both nice casinos, but no casino is going to "fix" the Las Vegas economy.
The Encore didn't fix the Vegas economy.
The Palazzo didn't fix the Vegas economy.
The M-Resort didn't fix the Vegas economy.
Aliante didn't fix the Vegas economy.
CityCenter - specifically Aria - won't fix the Vegas economy. (The rest of the towers at CC don't do anything for anyone but MGM Grand and they're going to eat that loss selling everything for at least 40% off).
Again, Vegas is the "effect" of money. Not the "cause" of money.
Vegas relies on everyone and everywhere else to make their money, travel here, and spend.
When people aren't making money, they aren't traveling here, and the ones that do come don't spend, and no amount of additional casinos will "fix" the economy. (McCarran traffic is down the last 18 months as are taxable sales in Clark County for the last 18 months. There might be a bump up in numbers here or there, but overall both are down.)
Vegas is on the bottom of the "money chain". And right now, nobody on the higher levels of the money chain have discretionary income.
2016. 2016. 2016. Tighten your belts, because the earliest there will be discretionary income for Americans is 2016.
lvdjlv :
Again, Vegas is the "effect" of money. Not the "cause" of money.
Very perceptive line...I like it.
Wow this is a sea of negativity... It's tough times people, get over it. Honestly I love Vegas and things will eventually turn around as they always do. When things were booming people never thought that would change and now that times are tough people think that will never change. If you live here and can't find a job its seems the smart thing to to would be to move... but some people like to be miserable i guess... The truth of the matter is, if you are a happy positive person you will be that way no matter where you live, and vice versa
tdoma :
What pipe you been smoking from? People who are stuck in a worthless home out here can't just up and move away! they are out of a job because the casino's greed is keeping tourists away due to overpriced everything in the gambling formula, and yes.. the national economy. The problem is that none of the state leaders or casino executives are doing anything to try and remedy the situation except laying off workers and cutting back, and fleecing what few tourists are coming here...