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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?  [/quote]

Casinos are ratchet AF. Brings a sleazy & tacky crowd. I hate going to concerts at MGM in Maryland because the casino crowd is just messy, the parking garage is a zoo, and there’s a ton of crime issues (drunken brawls, shootings, domestic fights, etc) [/quote]

It’s not that bad or you wouldn’t have gone to concerts—plural—at the MGM.

I like the MGM. It’s fun. I saw Cher there and it was an amazing night. I think the casino itself is nice—no smoking, lots of security. Now, I don’t go on the floor at midnight on a Saturday or anything like that. But a little gaming, a nice dinner at Voltaggio, a concert, I’m in. The lobby is beautiful with the seasonal artistic displays.

That said, not all casinos are that nice. I went to Maryland Live for a concert, and it’s not anywhere near as nice as the MGM. I didn’t linger. [/quote]

The MGM in PG County has gotten super gross. I live across the river in Alexandria and we used to go over there all the time to eat (the Shake Shack, when Jose Andres had a restaurant and more recently to the asian restaurant). I have also seen a few concerts there and I loved how close it was to my house and that the parking was free (saw Britney Spears and Bruno Mars there). In the last few years that entire area has exponentially declined and the MGM has gone down along with it. The parking lot is full of people smoking pot and with arguing/screaming with each other or with someone on their cell on speaker, nasty people roaming the mezzanine/corrider outside the casino floor which you must walk through to get anywhere, same people from parking lot on the terrace by the food court getting high and screaming on their phones, people who don't GAF and smoke/vape their pot inside the building, security escorting people from the floor to outside (and usually this is highly charged situation where the person is not going willingly so there are several security people vs the 1 person being removed and they're literally lifting the person off the ground and walking them outside), or even the creme de la creme when we say someone who had robbed the floor (grabbed chips) and was running out past the Asian restaurant (in the lobby areas that is often decorated where people take photos) to a get away car that was right at that exit (which isn't to the parking garage, you can drive right up to it) in the middle of a weekend afternoon.

I won't get started on the people that win big at the casino that then get followed home from the parking lot AND ROBBED when they get home.

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In other words, a day that ends in "y" in PG.[/quote]

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