Tinypliny's Journal

05/20/2007 22:02 #39356

The Safety issue...
Category: flat hunt

Hey everyone,

Since you are living or have lived in (and around) Elmwood/Allentown/Downtown, what do you think of safety of these areas:

Oak St & E. Huron St.
North Pearl @ Allen
Franklin @ Allen
Virginia St
Summer Street
Linwood Ave @ Barker
North Street
Elmwood @ Tracy, @ Bryant, @ Utica, @ Lexington @ Johnson Park
Jersey St @ Richmond, @ Porter
Prospect @ Georgia
Porter Ave @ Plymouth Ave
Richmond @ Bryant

I am looking to avoid projects, section-8 housing, crack houses, deaddiction centers, emergency shelters, loud bars/clubs and other not-so-great areas for a student who might be staying up late studying and might be keeping late hours at office.

Any advice/input/suggestions/tips are very much appreciated!

tinypliny - 05/24/07 23:30
Not late at all, I am still looking. :) Thanks!

ladycroft - 05/24/07 13:17
a little late in this game, but i live on bryant between elmwood and richmond. it's a nice neighborhood.

tinypliny - 05/22/07 23:06
Thanks so much jenks, ingrid, mrmike and Carolinian. This has been very helpful!! mrmike, I will check out Delaware court, thanks for the tip.. and Delta House, yikes! Carolinian, that's really good to know! I will be sure to drop you a message if I rent that place (given its still available). jenks, the boundaries you mention form a narrow long rectangle. I had fun tracking them down and shading them (posted next :))

carolinian - 05/21/07 23:48
I've lived on Richmond @ Bryant for close to a year and a half. Stuff has been mostly okay. The only thing I've seen is one time that some kids were vandalizing cars on the sides of the road, but they were caught by the police a short time after. I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this, but I do like this area a lot, and it's beautiful in the summertime; it's a fairly nice place to live. Yeah, I have to be a little vigilant and look out my window from time to time, but you have to be a little vigilant in any sizable city that's seen better days no matter where you're living.

And if you choose to live on Richmond @ Bryant, I've got your back. :)

mrmike - 05/21/07 16:23
Delaware Court has places for 605 all inclusive

mrmike - 05/21/07 16:22
I live on Delaware near Utica and Lexington, it's fine. As are these
Virginia St
Summer Street
Linwood Ave @ Barker
North Street
Elmwood @ Tracy, @ Bryant, @ Utica, @ Lexington

You just have to watch individual landlords and the types of properties they run. Elmwood and lexington has a primo apartment building and I won't rent there because the owner runs it like Delta House. Keep your eyes peeled everywhere

jenks - 05/21/07 12:53
The boundaries that were recommended to me when I was apt hunting were to stay in a box from allen to the south, forest to the north, elmwood to the east, and richmond to the west. Sure there are areas outside of that that will be fine (particularly: extending the east border to delaware or linwood), but I also think that's a reasonable place to start looking.

ingrid - 05/21/07 00:42
I just graduated from Roswell with my Masters. My friends lived off of Allen. One lived on Virginia and the other one lived off of Park or possibly Irving and Allen. Anything from off of Allen from Virginia to about Elmwood is pretty safe I would say.
North Street is a pretty good street as long as it's near Delaware and possibly Linwood.
I used to live on Delaware and Auburn but that's like closer to Gate's circle.
I hope that this helps. :)

05/20/2007 21:49 #39355

So my hunt for a flat
Category: flat hunt

is going dismally. Am I asking for too much? I just want a simple 1BR/studio
-- within a mile from Roswell (so I can walk/bike)
-- within $600 inclusive of all utilities
-- with access to a laundry not more than a 10 minutes walk off
-- in a comparatively safe area where I am not likely to get shot in some crossfire or assauted or heckled or panhandled.
-- near bus/metro stops.

I am a non-smoker, non-party'er and don't have a pet or a car, and yet I am having so much trouble finding an apartment!

I scour craigslist and artvoice everyday and all I come up with is a few apartments within my price and distance range -- which are gone before I can contact the landlords.

I need some luck here and fast! I need to positively move to Buffalo on June 16th.

jenks - 05/21/07 12:55
Hmm. Well roswell isn't in the GREATEST part of town. Not that it's so bad, but it's not super residential RIGHT around there. But Linwood has a lot of gorgeous houses... (e:paul) is probably a good person to ask about the immediate neighborhood. He walks to roswell.

05/20/2007 21:42 #39354

My Comprehensive qualifiers...
Category: the odes

are next week - and I feel like an empty shell. I just got done with the semester finals and here I am having to study for another round of exams. Yeesh.

04/07/2007 23:44 #38792

According to Darwin...
Category: goals

I should have been weeded out from this planet by now.

I heard people telling me all week how they ran for 3 miles that morning or worked up a sweat at the Gym or played squash every alternate day. I got inspired and went biking up a gentle slope and by the time I reached the "summit", not only was I panting like a dog, I was wishing I could get off and walk... and I did! I was just hoping that none of those super-athletes drove by seeing me straggle up a small slope they would have gracefully covered in the blink of an eye.

And what's up with those people I see running everyday for hours? I try running and within 30 seconds I feel I could go up in a massive explosion.

That brings me to another new Roswell Resolution (TM) I made.

RR1. I will bike more when I move to Roswell.

04/01/2007 19:59 #38712

Scary
Category: the odes

I find it a little more than distracting that the default pic actually looks like me right now.... especially the cowlick. Hmmm.. maybe not the bodyart.

Well.. all the more reason why I should stick to it. Heheheh...