Las Vegas is actually an oddly conservative place. The styles of acceptable hedonism are very tightly prescribed. Despite the people handing out cards in the street advertising escort agencies, it was also the only city I've been to in the US where I was advised against wearing my d-ring chain shirt; I did anyway, but certainly got less welcoming looks than I had in San Francisco, or would have expected in New York or Ann Arbor.
Our Vegas taxi driver was certainly a very dyed in the wool Republican (Australians are Good Friends of the US, Obama is destroying the economy, etc etc etc).
And once you're more than a couple of km from the strip, you're suddenly in bland suburban sprawl America. I queued in a post office for a little while, then went walking in search of busses or taxis - I could have been anywhere.
no subject
Las Vegas is actually an oddly conservative place. The styles of acceptable hedonism are very tightly prescribed. Despite the people handing out cards in the street advertising escort agencies, it was also the only city I've been to in the US where I was advised against wearing my d-ring chain shirt; I did anyway, but certainly got less welcoming looks than I had in San Francisco, or would have expected in New York or Ann Arbor.
Our Vegas taxi driver was certainly a very dyed in the wool Republican (Australians are Good Friends of the US, Obama is destroying the economy, etc etc etc).
And once you're more than a couple of km from the strip, you're suddenly in bland suburban sprawl America. I queued in a post office for a little while, then went walking in search of busses or taxis - I could have been anywhere.