• dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What purpose does any city serve?

    The largest water reservoir in the US is a few miles away. A large air force base was built on the, then, out skirts of town, the nuclear testing site, and the magnesium plant in nearby Henderson. All of which helped the US in WWII. That’s why Las Vegas isn’t a ghost town. It’s much more than gambling and debauchery. If that’s all it took, then why isn’t Pahrump (where prostitution is legal) a big city? What happened to Reno, which used to be the place to go party?

    I think Lemmy users are incredibly ignorant of Las Vegas and should get a little bit of reading in before trashing my home town.

    You also may want to let the 2 million plus residents know their city is not necessary.