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Vegas is also good for many other reasons: year round good weather, lots of tourists in need of taxi services, too hot to walk, too drunk to drive, etc…

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#1 place cabbies have tried to scam me. #2 being Boston. Uber is such a blessing

Baltimore was infamous for this when I lived there 15 years ago.

San Francisco, too. I'm so glad for Uber.

One downside to Uber in Vegas is that airport pickups happen in some hot parking garage far from the terminals.

I remember once going on the way back a work trip on a whim, and regretting not checking that the weather was >100 degrees. That step outside was an oven.

It's also kind of far and inconvenient to get to. It's like the inverse of those shuttles that take you from the arrivals loop of the airport to the ass end of the casino loading dock of your hotel (and 10 other hotels. So, unlike Uber, not even remotely worth it).

Fwiw I found it pretty well organized.

Interestingly Vegas is the only place I will use a cab over Uber or Lyft or (preferably) Waymo. Using the Curb app to pay electronically you avoid most of the BS with cash and "their card machine being broken", and once you've done it a few times you know the actual correct routes between places.

"Sorry my card reader isn't working, cash only."

"Oh, sorry, I don't carry cash. Better luck next time man!"

"Oh it just started working."

Also good from the tourist cities perspective. Self driving cars are absolutely a tourist attraction.

It still snows in Vegas from time to time. Also, sandstorms are not great for visibility.

Both of which are considerably more rare than snow in Chicago or rain in Seattle.

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