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Sin City is a nickname for an urban area (a city or part of) that caters to various vices, perhaps the most well known example being Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. These vices may be legal (depending on area) or illegal activities which are tolerated.
   Examples of vices include sex-related services (prostitution, strip clubs, sex shops, etc), gambling (casinos, betting shops, etc), or drug use (alcohol, marijuana, etc consumption), and even excessive gang activity. If the area is small, it's often called a red-light district, as in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Sin Cities in the world

Cities or areas that have this reputation include:

Americas

  • Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. (gambling, prostitution; quote: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.")
  • Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Strip clubs, prositution, gambling, colleges, parties, boys town "the real Sin Cité")
  • Hickory, North Carolina, U.S. (Strip clubs, prostitution, colleges, parties, marijuana consumption.)
  • Caldwell County, Kentucky, U.S. (moonshine, aggressive tobacco spitting, crop sabotage; quote: "We've got it all here, don't come around if you ain't got cahones. From poker playin to moonshine makin, city slickers get cooked like bacon. I seen whole ripe cornfields get destroyed by tractor gangs, draggin plows over an unpaid debt. These fields are tough.")
  • Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. (various vices; quote: "Lynn Lynn the city of sin you never come out the way you went in; wine, whiskey, women, and gin; Lynn Lynn the city of sin.")

Asia

  • Angeles City, Philippines (prostitution, alcohol, brothels, gambling, gang activity)
  • Pattaya, Thailand (strip clubs, sex shops, prostitution, drinking, clubing)

    Europe

  • Soho, London, England, U.K. (prostitution)
  • Amsterdam, North Holland, the Netherlands (prostitution, brothels, strip clubs, sex shops, marijuana consumption)

    Oceania

  • Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia (prostitution, drugs)

    Former Sin Cities

    Europe

  • Berlin, 1920s and early 1930s (Prostitution, numerous cabarets, decadence in general)
  • In 1955, Terre Haute, IN was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag. (reputation for being "wide open", with gambling and a well-developed "red light district")Further Information

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