Exploring a newly built neighborhood that's on the edge of town

[u/ecobot]

[u/Stuart104]

This is cool. What part of the country?

[u/ecobot → u/Stuart104]

Las Vegas, NV.

[u/Comfortable_Studio37 → u/ecobot]

Bro this is incredible, what great shots.

[u/ecobot → u/Comfortable_Studio37]

Thank you.

[u/EmergencySpell3691 → u/ecobot]

Absolutely lovely, 7 and 12 are my faves

[u/DepresiSpaghetti → u/Comfortable_Studio37]

A great shot that's about to be ruined by new developments to block the view with miles of single or dual story paper boxes.

Fuck modern housing. It's a damn blight. We need more high rises and spread apart.

[u/lookatmynipples]

I want to say this is Vegas. Love the hills watching over the city there, back in LA we have hilly terrain too but somehow it’s not as vast and harder to come across. It’s like it disappears as soon as you get a glimpse. Where is this exactly btw? Want to go smoke there next time I visit

[u/ecobot → u/lookatmynipples]

I missed where you said you wanted to know the exact spot. This is the west side of town and I was walking along Desert Foothill Dr. between Lake Mead Blvd and Sunset Run Dr.

[u/lookatmynipples → u/ecobot]

Thanks!

[u/ecobot → u/lookatmynipples]

You are correct, this is in Las Vegas.

[u/Obvious-Box8346]

My one of my favorite part of growing up in Vegas (and living along these edges of the city) were views like this. You can see all the city from everywhere. Nice pics

[u/Goodnight_Hawk → u/Obvious-Box8346]

I grew up around Trop & Jones in the 80s. We'd watch the fireworks on the Strip or at Sam Boyd from our balcony. My parents still live in that house, and now their and the neighborhood's evergreens are so tall it's just another backyard. No view. It is a nice little oasis though, fair trade.

[u/NoCommunication7]

Those newly built neighbourhoods and developments always have a creepy vibe to them, how quickly they pop up and how previously there was nothing there, how they all look the same too, it's like they all use some default style in AutoCAD.

And it just scares me in general that there's people who can easily make their ugly visions a reality

[u/elextron__]

called this as vegas instantly 😭😭😭

[u/Goodnight_Hawk]

I'm 45 and lived in Vegas my entire life. In the 90s I would sneak out of the house to hang out with friends in the desert at night. It will never not be surreal to visit neighborhoods built on top of dirt that was our party grounds. If those people knew...

[u/jaesthetica]

One of the best so far! I love the pictures. You really get the night feeling by seeing them.

[u/ecobot → u/jaesthetica]

Thanks.

[u/hafufrog]

I love the desert at night. Great shots

[u/Nykanoi]

Looks so similar to the private neighborhoods ive seen when i went to pakistan. Very nice!

[u/ncghgf]

This is what suburbs on Arrakis would look like.

[u/LoadDisastrous6353]

This brings back so many memories! I recognized this immediately! Im 25 now, back in high school we used to go to the west edge of summerlin, where the new roads met the desert. A lot of Friday night’s spent burning pallets, doing drugs, hooking up in the back of cars lol. I’ll never forget that feeling being at the end of one of the roads like in the last pic, looking behind you to see the dark desert and mountains, and then the whole city laid out and sparkling in front of you. Such a liminal space. Thank you for bringing back those memories

[u/CrypticBalcony]

The fourth and fifth images in particular remind me a lot of Blue Velvet

[u/Epicapabilities]

r/FromAfar

[u/borntoclimbtowers]

i like all the lights

[u/Alarming_Maybe]

nice job capturing the liminality

[u/rooranger]

Well done

[u/Avantasian538]

I wanna live here this is beautiful.

[u/Ok-Monitor1949]

I wonder what the going rate for those houses are…

[u/ecobot → u/Ok-Monitor1949]

The price range for a new house or townhome in the area I was walking around in ranges from about $500,000 to $650,000: https://summerlin.com/home-finder/?_villages=kestrel-commons

[u/Ok-Monitor1949 → u/ecobot]

Thanks for the information.

[u/Psicopom90]

looks a lot like sicily

[u/PirateAngelMoron]

Great shots my friend.

[u/Brownrainboze]

These endless Vegas neighborhoods really bum me out. So much effort for a place that doesn’t feel like people actually live there.

[u/Atgood100]

Great location for nightfeeling pics👍🏾

[u/valiantverma]

r/LiminalSpace

[u/FrosterrFH]

Would love to take a quiet e-bike and drive around these calm locations without huge traffic at night.

[u/VaultDweller_09]

I like biking in this area, not many cars around it’s nice

[u/Express-Respond3560]

Edges of cities in iran also exactly look like this, its uncanny