Officially, there are 632,000 residents in the city, There are on average around 110,000 visitors in the city each day. I would take a guess on homelessness, junkies and shysters being around 15,000 around the city.
What really got me were the million-dollar homes with thick steel gates with spikes on top, prominent security cameras, and a lot of them had private security patrolling. It was like a drug cartel area in South America. Then at the stoplights, there were beggars with dead eyes walking down the rows of cars. I had my 10 year old daughter in the car, I made sure all windows were up, locked out the controls so that only I had control, and told her to just keep looking down at her book. I’ve only been to Vegas twice (once for a conference, once to get gas) and there won’t be third, I’m done with that place. It has a vibe that I’ve only caught in a very few other places in my life. The place is downright frightening.