Paradise Hills is close enough to the freeway to make a quick hop into Boulder City. From College and 95 it's 15 minutes to the BC range.
Assuming you don't need Cat buses, you can generally find better neighborhoods the further you get from the bus stops. Folks just don't want to walk 1 mile uphill in the summer after they get off the bus.
Warm Springs and Center Street/Lake Mead area is crap full of economically challenged persons. You have the Indian streets right there which is basically a big trailer park, the Alta Vista Trailer Park right there at Warm Springs and Lake Mead. Housing project and section 8 complex there at Warm Springs and Center, and then right down at Taylor and Lake Mead, as well as Center and Burkholder. Oh, and it's about 10 minutes further to the freeway than Paradise Hills. Schools that Cadence is zoned for are the same schools that all the shitbirds from there attend (when they can be bothered to) Brown MS and Basic HS. Paradise Hills area appreciated a lot initially simply due to the schools they are closer to, Manion MS and Foothill HS.