Agreed. I lived there for around a decade. About 2 years in I would have written something like this article. Soon though I just felt surrounded by malcontents. The Anthony Bourdain episode about LV was pretty accurate. It’s a town founded and populated with people who wanted to flee where ever they were to somewhere no one would ever visit them. There’s this really abusive undercurrent that would stem from that mindset being present in the population in mass numbers.

Consider the timeframe of this piece though. The towns been booming for about as long or longer.