[lvmensch]

Originally Posted by Holycoooooow

Piggy backing on this question but in regards to Henderson...I noticed there are two middle schools in the Green Valley Ranch area (Miller and Webb). Is one significantly considered a better school over the other? Are homes zoned for one of those schools considered more valuable than the other?

Two of the top five most years. Rogich in Summerlin is also similar. Might be a slight edge to Webb over Miller this year but nothing significant enough to influence home values.

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by TJUSN

Another way to put which areas are the good areas of Henderson are is anywhere in the zip codes 89052 and 89012.

I would add 89044.

[SportyandMisty]

Live where it is more convenient for work. They are pretty much interchangeable.


I live in 89052 (Seven Hills). Here's the view from my backyard:

[justthe2ofus]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

We like that we get the morning sun instead of the afternoon sun. It gets hot as dickens here and having the sun disappear behind the mountains earlier helps.

Very true.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

Live where it is more convenient for work. They are pretty much interchangeable.


I live in 89052 (Seven Hills). Here's the view from my backyard:

That is s a gorgeous view, but does it ever get dark where you live with all that shining at you?

[lvmensch]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

That is s a gorgeous view, but does it ever get dark where you live with all that shining at you?

It is roughly 11 to 15 miles away. I would think that shot is made with a long lens. S&M can tell us. But I know that view well in fact from a place 2 or 3 miles closer...and that is not the naked eye view.

If you check out the view on Airlands or Vista Butte and some others you will find a significantly better view than that one. And those views frame the Strip with much of the valley.

I still find the most overpowering strip views to be in much closer...the tenth or fourth section or some of the area between Henderson and the city. The south Henderson and Summerlin views are in some ways nicer...but they are of the valley not the Strip.

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

That is s a gorgeous view, but does it ever get dark where you live with all that shining at you?

Yes. Not a problem.

Originally Posted by lvmensch

It is roughly 11 to 15 miles away. I would think that shot is made with a long lens. S&M can tell us.

Yes. I'm not a camera guy, but I borrowed a friends digital camera kit -- the kind of kit you could buy at Sam's Club or Costco for about $750 that included two lenses. I can't say what type of lens - but it was the long one. And I zoomed in as far as I could get for that picture.

[foundapeanut]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

Live where it is more convenient for work. They are pretty much interchangeable.


I live in 89052 (Seven Hills). Here's the view from my backyard:

Hubs bought a lot in 7 Hills in 1999. View was very similar to that but further away. We might of been higher up in the development as strip buildings looked smaller and we had a panaramic view. I think the street name was Villa something.
Didn't own it long, I like the west side and bought a custom house under construction and owners going through a divorce.
But was there long enough for hubs to meet a friend who was buying MIG jets. Only in Vegas!

[JonathanLB]

This question always fascinates me too because it apparently has no clear answer, locals seem to either agree that good Henderson and Summerlin are about equal, or they have some clear personal bias for choosing their own location.

I will say my family, two aunts and two uncles, live in Henderson and I found where they live to be a lot of row houses and strip malls, it just seemed... too suburban to me. I don't know if their area was one of the 55+ communities or what, I think it is, perhaps. They also told me it was 15 minutes from the Strip but the drive was a good 35-40 minutes so... yeah I don't know what's up with that. Maybe traffic was just especially bad.

We are pretty much set on Summerlin, but I want to remain open minded because I think the only good way to look is to spend at least a few days in each location, and maybe also (since we will move years from now) see what's up with South Las Vegas, if that's an up-and-coming area by that point.

My main thing I'm trying to figure out is not which is better, Henderson or Summerlin, for your average family, because it does seem to be a wash there, personal preference.

What I'm more curious about is my own situation. Where is the best place for two people to live who won't ever have a "job" in Las Vegas (my company operates nationwide, I can run it from anywhere, and my other work is in the film industry), don't want kids, and are building a $1M+ home? I keep coming back to there must be some reason that every celebrity, business owner, and Golden Knights player I've ever heard of lives in Summerlin and not in Henderson. I feel like when I talk to people outside of Las Vegas, everyone has heard of Summerlin, even people like my dad who is idiotically negative on Las Vegas always speaks highly of Summerlin and knows it's one of the best places to live. Random people who you'd think don't know much about a suburb of some city they don't live in, they all seem to know of Summerlin and it reminds me a lot of the Pearl District in Portland. It's famous for what it represents in city planning, I guess, so people have heard of it far and wide.

I'm curious if for my situation, it would still be a tie between Henderson and Summerlin, or given those factors if it does as I suspect tip the favor to Summerlin? When I see the place, Downtown Summerlin, City National Arena, Red Rock Casino, the hiking trails not far away, somehow it just feels right. Henderson when I went didn't have that feeling to me, but I grant I didn't see that much of it so it's an unfair judgment to make. There are probably amazing areas of Henderson just as good as anything in Summerlin, I'm just so far leaning more toward Summerlin.

[WorldKlas]

^^ So, go with Summerlin! No biggie. But do check out Seven Hills and Lake Las Vegas just to be sure you haven’t missed anything.

We came to the Valley specifically to live in an active 55+ community. We compared ad nauseum! Visited all the communities we were interested in and focused on Summerlin because it was our preferred location. We even liked that our address could be “Las Vegas, NV” vs. “Henderson, NV”. But, alas, the community we felt best fit us was in Anthem/Henderson. We kept going back, for about 4 months, to Summerlin — hoping to find a house and 55+ community that felt as good to us. Finally just went with this place, haven’t been sorry; somehow we just knew where we belonged. But ours was a decision very specific to our social and recreational interests.

Listen to yourself; there’s no one right answer. Just check out all the areas that interest you.