8 thoughts on “Casino in Budapest”

1. I am not a thrifty person and have never really been a good steward of my money, but because of the odds of winning, gambling is definitely not for me. Because of the danger of addition, I’m not too keen on gambling as a source of revenue.

2. They are just catching on here in New England – I like to visit them, they are very interesting for someone who has never seen one.

3. Our new Prime Minisrer Gordon Brown has just gone back on Tony Blair’s agreement to allow Britain’s first super-casino (huge one employing 2,000) in Manchester without any discussion. This has shocked and annoyed Manchester, which has a large deprived area that thought it would benefit from the investment but it has also has opened up the whole debate in the UK again. Generally people seem to be against the idea, at least the ones I am hearing. Quakers are against all forms of gambling in principle but I have an occasional go on the lottery scratch cards. I find it sad to see the long queue of peole to buy lottery tickets every week because I live in a very deprived area of England and that queue represents everyone’s dream of escaping it – even although the odds are 14 million to 1 of winning – you have to be in it to win it the adverts say…

4. I think it helps the economy of the city some but definitely not the economy of the people. Too addicting.

5. People gamble. They gamble with things as personal as their lives (smoking, drinking, playing with guns etc.) but the idea of attracting tourists is a stretch for me. However, there is a river gambling boat moored near Cincinnati, Ohio and it is swamped with people all the time.

   So maybe it would work for getting tourists to come.

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6. Casinos will draw tourists who go to casinos, not to other places. So it will not necessarily be good for tourism I think.

   Personally I dont go to casinos. When I was in Reno, Nevada, two years ago, I went to casinos to have lunch at their buffets….. The “clients” were mostly older ladies who smoked as much as firefighters (this is the literal translation of a French expression :-))

7. After seeing Ocean’s Thirteen I am definitely for casinos :)

   Friend of mine was working in a casino on a boat and sailed the world thanks to that.

8. I was never interested in Casinos. Once when I was in France we went to a Casino and I saw there an old lady with terrible make up and an ugly yellow plastic bucket for the “coins”. I didnt have that Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen feeling…being there:)
   At times I buy lottery but mostly I forget:)