Like discardorama, I am in Vegas right now. Possibly unlike discardorama, I was born and raised in this town. Note: I don't live here now. I left in 1986 t

Like discardorama, I am in Vegas right now. Possibly unlike discardorama, I was born and raised in this town. Note: I don't live here now. I left in 1986 to go to work at Convex in Dallas, and now live in Austin. (after a 7 year break from the VC-funded madness when I lived in Hawaii 2004-2011.) But while here, I'm working outside all day, every day. (Effecting a repossession of some heavy equipment for my father, and fixing said equipment so it can be transported. Said equipment is the remaining artifacts of what was a 50 year-old water well drilling business located in Las Vegas.) Yes, in the 115F heat, and I'm 51, and have survived both an ascending aortic dissection and an associated MI. It hasn't killed me yet. The problem with Las Vegas isn't the heat. The problems are: lack of tech structure (why I left), and water. There simply will not be enough water to support a city of any size here.