Two Las Vegas questions in one post!!!

[SpazzyChicken]

Hmmmmm..........I am looking into taknig a position at UMC in Las Vegas, and I was wondering the very same thing as you. I have no idea where the nice areas to live are, or if it is even a good place to live.

Keep the info coming!!

 

[SLU MD]

there are two nice parts of town, northwest as in around summerlin. the other is henderson.

there are obviously other nice parts of town, but they are much smaller in size. ie: the surrounding area could be pretty crappy. not what u want.

i would definately check out those two areas and go from there.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: SLU MD
i can only speak for the master planned community of summerlin. and its great. i absolutlely love it, there are plenty of trails and you can just tell people thought about it before they built it. Shopping and grocery stores are close. But summerlin is a good hike to the airport (or where you wanna work).

About how many miles (i.e. I'm wondering if it could be done on a bike safely)?

Bike commuting is not readily setup.

Henderson would be between 5 and 10 miles, depending on where you were.
There are 2-3 mainraods from that area, nonehave make bikeways attached to them and mosthave 1-2 accidents per day on them.

Summerlin would be 10-15 miles. Unless you take surface streets, you will be driving into the sun with 5 miles of traffic feading into the spagettit bowl (2 major highway intersecting from north and west feeding the strip and downtown.) (8 lanes -> 4)

Some streets have bikeways, however, they are few and far between. There are not master bikeways that are commutable between areas.

 

[EagleKeeper]

The northwest, Centenial Hills area is becoming a semi-planned community - everything is 5 years or newer.

North Las Vegas has its good, medium and ugly areas. Big problem is that anything from there goes through the bowl

Commute into town will be a shock. Can take anywhere from 5-15 minutes to get to a highway and then anywhere from 30-60 minutes depending on time of day and target location.

 

[Mustangrrl]

Winter nights are bone-chilling? hehe I lived in Canada for a year (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), THAT was bone-chilling, Vegas is just chilly.

Oh, and not all of Henderson is nice, I work in social services in Henderson, a lot of it is absolutely nasty. Old Henderson, Pittman, Basic High area - all nasty nasty nasty, stay away!