I have gone to Vegas for personal reasons so many times in the past two years that it’s really growing on me. I love the fact that wherever you look, you see hills and mountains. Often I am up there only for the day and it’s always a pleasure. I can get there faster than driving across L.A. some days. When we stay over, we stay off strip (but with a lovely view of it) and make food in our room (the lovely Platinum hotel is all suite with full kitchens) and just sit and enjoy the view.
My aunt and uncle (elderly) left Bel Air several years ago and moved to Vegas and I was always surprised how much they seem to like it. The heat is scary, but other than that, I can kind of see why they like it now.
It’s a great city and my adopted hometown. Las Vegas - the city with no redeeming social value whatsoever, which in a strange way is its redeeming social value. :-)