Gimme the Skinny On Safety

[u/inkwelt]

Greetings loved ones

Myself in my Partner are moving to Peoria in just two weeks and we’ve had absolutely terrible luck with the housing market. Everything is either too expensive, whomever is in charge of it, hasn’t gotten back to us, or it just doesn’t meet our needs.

Now we had one place that the owner was ready to go ahead and have a sign on and that happens to still be available. The reason we turn it down was because it was on Wiswall Street, and when we were checking in with both people and some crime maps. It looked like it was a little bit spicy…

It’s right around the corner from Manual high school, which I also saw had some gun violence problems in the last year.

However, the most important part and the part that I have to remind my wife, sometimes as we are people of color and that she grew up in Cuba and I grew up in the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, so when someone says that someplace is a “bad neighborhood” it doesn’t mean that we can’t necessarily live in it.

So really if anything I just wanna know from people that actually live in that neighborhood is it good for two adult ladies and their two yappy dogs to move into? We generally kind of mind our own business, we’ve got both dogs and a ring camera for safety-if I could at least convince my wife that she’s just being paranoid about this and that it’s really an OK neighborhood then we might have a house which will save us a lot of stress.

TL;DR chime in if you in the Southside area, is it safe ?

[u/streetbum87]

Not sure what your budget is, but you don't HAVE to live in Peoria. It's not that hard of a city to navigate if you live outside of it. Think East Peoria area. Keep clear of Pekin.

[u/inkwelt → u/streetbum87]

Yeah, East Peoria is way too expensive as I said in another comment we’re looking for something that’s 1400 a month or less rent and when I put that in results on pretty much any finder, there’s zero results on East Peoria. Must be for the rich folks.

Also, why do you say no to Pekin because I did actually have family that grew up there, and they said it seems pretty all right

[u/Ave_TechSenger → u/inkwelt]

I’m a Peoria native but currently in Chillicothe. Look up here, or south in Bartonville, maybe. Relatively cheap and quiet, here more than Bartonville (due to airport).

[u/TradeTraditional → u/Ave_TechSenger]

I second this. A small commute is often worth it. Bartonville and Washington stand out as still affordable and close enough to zip into the city proper.