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Leaving the city I love taught me how to look at it honestly Why do you like it here?” he asks me.He is any number of people: a stranger on a barstool, a friend’s boyfriend, an acquaintance I’ve been asked to show around. He is visiting Las Vegas, and he is asking the question visitors ask locals. He is asking for a thesis, and maybe, depending on how the night goes, a fight.“I could never live in Vegas,” this person always says.Ever the tour guide, I tell him about wild burros at Red Rock Canyon, old casino marquees at the Neon Museum, immersive theater in the Arts District, hand-pulled noodles in Chinatown. Warm evenings on the Strip, that collective start-of-the-night energy from so many people determined to have the best night of their lives. Where else can you feel that? I defend Las Vegas because doing so makes you a local. Other cities have impossible buy-ins for this: You have to live there for a decade. No, it needs to be on your birth certificate.In Las Vegas, yo