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Originally Posted by punkass
If you're going to correctly analyze cost of living, you should use no data from the strip.
You have to use the data from the strip if you go to the strip for entertainment, If you do not plan on ever going to the strip then maybe you shouldn't.
The strip has went from cheap entertainment when I first got here in 2001 to very expensive today. If you just want to work, go home eat at a fast food place then Vegas is not that expensive but I do not live to just grind my life away working.
Now with all the big corporations owning all the casinos they want to squize ever cent out of you they can, so if you want to go to the strip every time you go out it is very expensive, $15 to self park in a garage, $10 to use a ATM, then the $2.50 for a bag of chips you get for .75 , $11 for a pack of cigarettes in a machine. Forget the prices of food, they want to fleece everyone as soon as they walk in the door, that why they get to pay the over paid executive of the casino but pay the workers less.
When I first moved her valet parking was free so you would tip the guy $5-$20 to park your car but now the Casinos, the Bellagio charge $30 so they more or less took the workers money, still pay them $10 hr but cut the tips down by 90%+ so no more $5-$20 it is a buck or 2. But if you do not go to the strip there is still Dotty's. Parking is free and the hookers are cheap, just pick off the crabs and scabs.