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Originally Posted by DC2LV
I guess it depends upon what you consider near the strip and/or far enough out in the SW. I live in one of the nicest, safest developments in the entire valley, and I'm about 5 miles straight out west off of Trop.
5 miles is close to far enough out. But it sounds like you're in Spanish Trail. A place like that counts a lot like a high rise condo. Ringed with a high wall, guard-gated, and $400/mo (or whatever they are) HOA fees to pay for it.
If I can't live behind guarded gates, I'd rather be a couple miles farther out on Tropicana. Rainbow feels very sketchy, still, and that's about 4 miles. Buffalo is better at 5 miles, Durango better still at 6 miles, but Apache is where it has mostly lost that urban jungle feel, and I think that's about 7 miles. But I don't live there so I don't spend a lot of time hanging out in the area.
It's all just an approximation, and my opinion. And it's not a hugely informed opinion, for that matter. I ain't a real estate agent or metro cop, I haven't lived anywhere but the SSE, and I don't get out much.
Feel free to ignore me, and I mean no disrespect to anybody's neighborhood.
I live about 4.5 miles south of Trop, but there's an airport and an interstate between me and the strip, which helps act as a buffer, I think. I wouldn't move any closer, that's fersure, and I often wish I were a wee bit further out. But it does make the trip to MGM a 12 minute affair most of the time.