[saucemoney]

according to cnn money, paradise is one of the best places to live and claims that the crime levels are low, but yet crime levels are so high their?im guessing thats is why the apartments in that area so cheap? where do most college kids stay and hang out?

[Chest Rockwell]

Paradise between Twain and Harmon has apartment and condo living from dirt poor to filthy rich. There is dining from super cheap to 5 star, cheap casinos, nice casinos and everything in between. It's a great place for college students to live.

UNLV is kind of a glorified community college in that many students live way off campus and commute into UNLV, but the area east of Maryland in between Flamingo and Hacienda is chock full of students. Some areas can be a little dodgy at night if you're walking alone, but otherwise it is probably the best area to be that is close to school, close to all the best bars and the Strip and around student life.

[olecapt]

I think we are doing two different Paradise...the town and the street. The town of course is the strip and east of there. The road is a parallel just east of the strip. Off the road you can find both reasonable student housinng and the pits of Las Vegas. So a certain amount of local knowledge is highly desirable in that area.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by saucemoney

according to cnn money, paradise is one of the best places to live and claims that the crime levels are low, but yet crime levels are so high their?im guessing thats is why the apartments in that area so cheap? where do most college kids stay and hang out?

UNLV is like other colleges in that there are a lot of kids going there and living on campus or in the immediate area. But UNLV is actually a large urban university and a large percentage of the students are people who have already started their careers and live all over town. I've heard it said that there are more classes at night at UNLV than during the day in order to accommodate the working people. Maybe someone who is a student can comment on that. But Paradise is not a city in Nevada. It is one of the unincorporated areas of Clark County which comprise the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, which in itself is just a great big city. When you live here you never pay attention to those boundries except for a few minor things. That said, a lot of that area of town is extremely high crime. I lived in the area in the 60's and 70s when it was really nice. But I worked on Maryland Parkway near DI Road from 1998 until 2005 and I never walked out to my car that I didn't see somebody in hand cuffs. I saw drug deals going down on a daily basis. In the Boulevard Mall across the street it got to be very dangerous. One kid was beaten to death in front of his parents in the food court. At least once a week somebody gets shot within four or five blocks of my old office. UNLV is .7 of a mile down Maryland Parkway from there. My daughter went to grade school and Jr. High right behind the Boulevard Mall. She graduated from UNLV and I'd still send a kid there because it's a good school. But I wouldn't let a kid of mine live within two or three miles of that campus.

[lvkewlkid]

The eastern part of Paradise (the town) is much better than the western part...

[saucemoney]

thanks for the replies! The places im looking at are east of UNLV.....the apartment complexes are villa del sol, destinations at eastern and fountains at flamingo. Villa del sol and Destinations are near the desert springs hospital and the flamingos is a tiny bit south of E flamingo road.

[lvkewlkid]

The Fountains at Flamingo is a fine complex in a great location, across the street is the great Food4Less shopping center with a good pizza place, Zaba's, Panda Express, Ace Hardware, and its just a great center, even though it has a welfare and probation office, but for that reason the center has high security...great infrastructure is in place for that area...If you stay near Pecos or Sandhill on Flamingo it is a very good idea...