# Leaving Las Vegas (and Coming Back Soon)

**Published by:** [Continuations](https://continuations.com/)
**Published on:** 2013-11-15
**Categories:** vegas
**URL:** https://continuations.com/leaving-las-vegas-and-coming-back-soon

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Writing this on a flight back from Vegas where Susan and I just attended Day 1 of the Women 2.0 conference – I will write a longer blog post about that when not crammed into an economy class seat on Delta. The trip was another reminder of my love-hate relationship with Vegas. It is quintessentially American and condenses its best and worst. It was built by gangsters and used to be run by them – now they have gone corporate. There is fantastic entertainment starting with the Cirque du Soleil shows. It is probably the least sustainable city (in the US) – huge fountains in front of the Bellagio in the desert. It appears soul sucking for many people working there, yet many of visitors are having a great time. And then there is the latest entry in the love column: Tony Hsieh’s ultra ambitious downtown project which I first wrote about in the middle of last year. Unfortunately we did not make it down there but Tony gave a great update at the conference. The progress sounds amazing and so I suspect I will be coming back to Vegas soon to check it out in person. What do you love and/or hate about Vegas?

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