No neighbors, no neighborhood

First residents of Henderson development hope slump won’t dash their dreams

“It felt inspired,” said Lacey Hawk, who moved in at the end of last year after living for nearly two years in Southern Highlands and meeting no neighbors. “It was the old style of people getting together. I thought this was going to be different.”

She had seen the advertisements.

“Imagine a community that reflects your spirit,” a TV ad says, showing a young woman walking from her home to a coffee shop, a school and a flower stand, then meeting her husband and child at a park.

There’s no telling, though, when such Norman Rockwellesque images may become reality.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/21/no-neighbors-no-neighborhood/

Is it possible to manufacture community?  The builders have tried but all the slick advertising in the world cant change the unfriendly nature of this hard scrabble town.  Las Vegas is not the land of opportunity that most would imagine it to be.  It's a mean corrupt town run by thugs who have the highest of connections and the deepest of pockets.