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Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas
(timesofsandiego.com)
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Tourism isn't surfing.
Also Hawaii would be populated without surfers or tourism.
Hawaii doesn't require massive infrastructure to be habitable. Vegas is largely uninhabitable without it (just read up in the experience of the Mormons in Nevada).
Vegas only exists because the mafia promoted and controlled gambling. Saying otherwise is disingenuous, at best.