Ok folks, here is a question. What do you prefer Macau or Vegas? What do you like or dislike about each place? I really like Macau. Good weather and lots of hotties.
hopefully all gambling establishments in the world explode simultaneously, vaporising all their clients and staff, and give me all their money, in untraceable euros.
Not that renminbi shit.
Vegas’s hotties have bigger titties ^^
True.
Vegas Hooters also have real hooters.
and milk comes from Macau.
Food is better in Macau.
In the daytime, Vegas looks like Kinshasa.
You guys should try visiting Monaco. Really nice place. Hotties way out of anybody’s league.
Macau. Cool temples, gardens, food, historic buildings, and proximity to Hong Kong. I rarely even set foot in a casino in Macau.
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Try living & working here and you’ll see its a soulless city of about 30 sq km. moved here from k-town in October after 8 years in Shanghai. 500,000 population with 200,000 transient workers, that’s what we are classed as. Laid back? Sure it is there’s only gambling and whoring and shopping.sight seeing ? You can do the place in a weekend with time to lose the shirt of your back at one of the many casinos. Casinos are opening at the rate of one a year and an extra 19,000 hotel rooms are slated to come online within the next 24-30 months . All of this whilst the supreme leader in Beijing clamps down on trips to Macau for the gangsters washing their illicit gains.
Vegas has more to offer ,shows, great food and a host of attractions for the family. Sure Macau makes more in revenue than Vegas But Vegas is a destination in itself without the casinos. Macau is just plain sad . Sorry to burst your bubble but scrape beneath the surface and beneath the bling and glitz and glamour is a sordid city where forced prostitutionand almost modern day slavery takes place daily.
I’ll do my time, collect the money and be on the first plane back to K-Town
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Why going to any of them … poker online!
Try living & working here and you’ll see its a soulless city of about 30 sq km. moved here from k-town in October after 8 years in Shanghai. 500,000 population with 200,000 transient workers, that’s what we are classed as. Laid back? Sure it is there’s only gambling and whoring and shopping.sight seeing ? You can do the place in a weekend with time to lose the shirt of your back at one of the many casinos. Casinos are opening at the rate of one a year and an extra 19,000 hotel rooms are slated to come online within the next 24-30 months . All of this whilst the supreme leader in Beijing clamps down on trips to Macau for the gangsters washing their illicit gains.
Vegas has more to offer ,shows, great food and a host of attractions for the family. Sure Macau makes more in revenue than Vegas But Vegas is a destination in itself without the casinos. Macau is just plain sad . Sorry to burst your bubble but scrape beneath the surface and beneath the bling and glitz and glamour is a sordid city where forced prostitutionand almost modern day slavery takes place daily.
I’ll do my time, collect the money and be on the first plane back to K-Town[/quote]
That’s a unique perspective and thanks for sharing. As a tourist, though, I found Macau way more interesting than Vegas. I’m not sure I’d want to live in either.
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I like the restaurant Fernandos in Macau. I specifically like the garden there.
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My pick is…Monte Carlo!
Not really, I’ve been there and meh, there was nothing special about it. I’d like to visit Vegas if possible, though. It seems like a pretty fun and glamorous place.
my impression of Macau, similar to Zhonghe , just hundreds of years older 
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Absolutely. Lake Mead, Mt. Charleston, microbreweries, good Mexican food, great weather in the winter (go for a sleigh ride at Mt. Charleston), hiking, Red Rock, good concerts now and then, etc. Bluest of blue skies all the time. Most of the town is relatively new so everything is clean.
Since I was living in greater LA, to me Vegas without the casinos would be no different than staying in LA… If I want slightly better weather in the winter, palm springs would do the same. There are plenty reservoirs with barren surroundings in Orange County for Lake Mead replacement. There is Bear Mountain for Mt. Charleston replacement. There are plenty of microbreweries and great Mexican food in LA. Concerts in LA, check. In that respect, if you take away the casinos, I would have very little incentives to visit Vegas, even as a detour on my way to the Grand Canyon.
Macau without casinos on the other hand is pretty fun for those who enjoys historic sight-seeing. Also, Taiwan’s history is intertwined with Macau, so it’s a bonus.
I wouldn’t choose to live in either places though. If I have to, I’d pick Vegas. I’ll take dry heat over humid heat any day.
btw, when I visited Macau alone for 3 days, I didn’t once set foot in a casino.
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[quote=“hansioux”]Since I was living in greater LA, to me Vegas without the Casinos would be no different than staying in LA… If I want slightly better weather in the winter, palm springs would do the same. There are plenty reservoirs with barren surroundings in Orange County for Lake Mead replacement. There is Bear Mountain for Mt. Charleston replacement. There are plenty of microbreweries and great Mexican food in LA. Concerts in LA, check. In that respect, if you take away the casinos, I would have very little incentives to visit Vegas, even as a detour on my way to the Grand Canyon.
Macau on the other hand is pretty fun for those who enjoys historic sight-seeing. Also, Taiwan’s history is intertwined with Macau, so it’s a bonus.
I wouldn’t choose to live in either places though. If I have to, I’d pick Vegas. I’ll take dry heat over humid heat any day.[/quote]
You hit the nail on the head for me. As an Angeleno (I feel like it’s cultural appropriation for me to use this term, but whatever) Vegas is just “more LA but with casinos,” and you have to drive 5-6 hours to get there. My favorite part of Macau was the peninsula, the seedy old parts of it that look like something out of a Hong Kong crime drama. There’s a sense of exploration in Macau, and it’s really got a unique identity that I dig, even if I wouldn’t wantt o become a resident myself.
Very much East meets West, and a lot of places that don’t look too different from Taiwan.
It’s just so… colorful.
Meanwhile, Vegas is either this:
Or this:
With little in between. Oh and the drive looks like this for hours on end.
well, when I went to Vegas, I went to a stripe club for the first time in my life, so there were fond memories… although I might had a bit more fun when I left my college friends for this…
beat that, Macau…
I guess I associate LA with extreme stress more than anything, since I got my engineering degree there! Having lived in Asia for so many years now, I actually like the long stretches of nothingness on the way to Vegas from LA, and the almost empty Lake Mead in the winter, and the short 30-minute drive up to see snow at Mt. Charleston without having to fight traffic, etc. My Taiwanese wife also loves the openness of it all (but I think she would prefer living in LA- quaint Claremont or the Chinese infiltrated Diamond Bar or Arcadia). Any trip in Asia would definitely not involve Macau for me! Koh Samui to drink with my German friend at his gym, yes, but not another crowded and polluted place like Macau.
I see what you are saying… you mean while you are in Vegas, there are places you can go to escape Vegas, but while you are in Macau, you pretty much have to take a boat out into the sea to escape Macau.
You can go to the beach in Macau and hang out in the aforementioned beer garden at Fernandos and pretend you are on the Med. Macau is a nice break from HK.
Agreed that the Taipa/historic areas of Macau are pretty nice. Big fan of Portuguese cuisine.
The rest of it though…no thanks. Buch of bleary-eyed, mannerless Party brutes frittering away LBX’s pensions. Pretty horrible when you really think about it.
As far as a party destination vs Vegas, I don’t even see how you could make a comparison. Have never seen the clubs there be anything but completely dead, as people don’t go there to party - with the exception of a few pool parties that bring people over from HK. Couples go for a nice, relaxed weekend, or…groups of dudes go to get hookers. If you aren’t into hookers, Macau probably is going to be a letdown.