AGREED - It ain't called Sin City for nuthin!
15 years ago I conned my 19 year old son to drop the 15 year old model babe and move in with me in LA. Two years of deprogramming - "Son, life has choices, if you make the right ones things will go well, if you make the wrong ones, it's back to Sin City" He's still a pothead but he's a functioning pot-user gainfully employed after earning a 4.0 GPA Bachelor's from Berkeley and a marrying a beautiful, inside and out, woman.
It could have happened in Vegas but there's lots more vice on display and available there than even in LaLaLand.