Las Vegas Isn't Las Vegas

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🗓️ 30 April 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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You aren't visiting the place you think you are.

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0:00.0	Vegas, baby, it's Paradise. Not metaphorically either, this literally isn't the city of Las Vegas.
0:06.0	Look at a map and you'll see the name Paradise and when you visit and check the weather, same thing.
0:11.0	Here is Las Vegas and here is Paradise, which contains nearly everything people associate with Las Vegas, including the sign.
0:19.0	Now you might think Paradise is just a relatively
0:21.3	unknown city mistaken for its larger neighbor like elsewhere, but paradise isn't a
0:26.2	city at all. It's an unincorporated place. What's that? Quick government recap.
0:31.2	Citizens living in a city have to follow the rules of the city and also those of
0:35.5	the county and also the state and also the nation.
0:38.3	It's a government layer cake and each layer collects its own taxes to enforce its own rules.
0:43.3	If some folk find these layers oppressive, they can hitch their wagons and head for open lands outside the borders of any city to live like the rugged individualist they are, free of rules.
0:53.3	Well, except for those of the nation and also the state and also the county.
0:58.0	But moving outside a city, there's one fewer and also layer,
1:02.0	because they are in an unincorporated place.
1:05.0	But if they make it nice and the population grows,
1:07.0	inevitably people want police and sewers and schools and rules, and soon a charter is written, a mayor elected, and a city incorporated.
1:14.6	What makes Paradise weird is that unlike most unincorporated places that contain mostly blowing tumbleweeds and perhaps a yurt where nobody wants to live,
1:23.4	there are almost a quarter million residents in Paradise in a space the size of Disney World.
1:29.3	That density is way past the point you'd expect people to incorporate a city,
1:33.3	and it's not like Paradisians just couldn't bother.
1:36.3	Paradise is almost unique in being officially unincorporated.
1:40.3	So why?
1:41.3	It started with the Mormons who first settled these lands in the 1880s.
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