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    Default Moving to a shady neighbourhood

    I need a new apartment ASAP or I will be homeless in two weeks. And it's suddenly so hard to find a place. Mindblowingly hard. Worse comes to worse I can throw my stuff in storage and stay with my mom for a month (everything seems available October), but my roomate for various reasons wants us to get our own place immediately.

    This is all my fault for procrastinating, but that aside...

    How wary should I be about sketchy neighbourhoods? I found a place, and I was willing to take it, although I know the area has a bad rep. Then my family's friend, also our insurance broker, said "NO WAY". He basically assured me I'd get broken into, unless I bought a rottweiler or something.

    Man. I think he's wrong...I actually have a friend who lives in this block, and he's had no issues. It looks ok...I think it's at least three blocks away from ScaryTown Proper anyway.

    But as we were leaving we did see several cops and a humane society truck blaring lights across the street...Actually, we also saw a cop pull someone over on our way there.

    I'm so conflicted over this. I need to decide soon. How much of a risk am I running? At the end of the day, it IS Ottawa. Not, say, Gatineau, where all our citizens go to get shot, statistically speaking. Thoughts?

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    Default Re: Moving to a shady neighbourhood

    I'd stay with my mom until I could find a safe enough place to live if I were you. I've never been to Ottawa though so sorry I can't help.

    I know living in Miami was Hell sometimes. We found the place online and moved in without seeing many pictures of the place or the surroundings. We were that desperate. Luckily we were in a safe enough area..or at least we thought. I think it was about 6 months of living at our new place before someone broke in. Well, they broke in to 3 of our neighbor's places because they weren't home. The guy came to our place knocking afterwards. My husband and I were both home luckily so he ran away and we called the cops along with the landlord. We moved soon after that. The somewhat cheaper rent wasn't worth the fear every time we left our place.

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    Default Re: Moving to a shady neighbourhood

    I've lived in a couple of crappy neighborhoods because I was able to get a lot of space for not a lot of money, and basically people like your family friend are scared 'cause of the poor people. It's usually not nearly as bad as people make out (though, as always, use your special elevated strippersense to be aware of your surroundings). If you have friends already in that neighborhood I'd say it's fine. And seeing the cops, hey, bonus, that means they give a shit and show up. One of my neighborhoods was esteemed so lowly by the local PD that they would avoid it. Really.

    If you're sincerely concerned you can have an alarm installed really easily.

    But that's just my two cents. I never felt unsafe in these places. If you really don't feel safe walking around a particular neighborhood, listen to that instinct.

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    Default Re: Moving to a shady neighbourhood

    This makes me think of the thread about the dancer in Florida who posted a couple weeks ago the thread called, "I just got robbed at gunpoint." I was thinking to myself, poor girl! she needs to move to a better neighborhood!!!

    I guess that expresses my sentiments. Why risk it?

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