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Originally Posted by Jkpoker10
The strip or close by prolly isn’t ideal location to live.
It just depends. Quality of neighborhood can change block by block in LV. My first house in LV was at Rancho and Oakey. It was phenomenal, and the neighborhood south of us was also pretty good but the access from Sahara created a few more problems. We had basically no issues for the 6 years we lived there. Friends lived over on 5th place behind the Ocha Thai on LVB. Awesome little pocket there. They had a random dude in their backyard once, but drunk people exploring happens... Idk, just wasn't a dangerous area. Whereas go a block east of Paradise on Twain and hoo boy.
Maybe some of these aren't the best for leaving a house vacant for months at a time, but my point is that there are some gems out there for sure. Look for solid working class neighborhoods where people want a sense of community and good neighbors. When you're looking your realtor should be able to help you, but realtors have to be careful about what they say because of fair housing policies. Ethical ones can't tell you about "the element" etc because of how that language has been used historically to segregate towns.
But for value I would look at older neighborhoods in Green Valley (not GV South) and basically the I-15 corridor south of town. We have friends that live in a nice little neighborhood off I15 and Cactus just west of the 15. You'd probably never look there without someone telling you it's totally fine. IDK how I would navigate without some local friends helping, so I'd lean into the community pretty hard for where their friends live and just start driving the communities.