Offer accepted!

[peeonme]

I placed an offer on a house and it was accepted, now I need to sell my place. Tomorrow I will cut my asking price and hopefully it will sell quickly. Yesterday we had a murder in our park... one brother shot his other brother in the face. Shootings, stabbings and drug deaths have been on the increase in here for a few years.

In the area where we plan to move there are more robberies such as in gas stations and convenience stores. It seems as though domestic violence and drug abuse are getting all to common.
How is it where you live?

 

[cityboy-stl]

Things are getting worse. We now have organized groups that come in three cars. The drivers go block by block. People jump out the passenger side and look for unlocked parked cars to ransack. Then jump back in and go on to the next block. Thefts of Kia and Hyundai cars are over 5000 now. Fortunately, my Mazda has not been hit. Catalytic converter thefts are on the rise too. It sucks.

 

[unloadonme]

How is it where you live?

It's actually pretty good. There is no gun crime (as I don't live in the US!) and the streets are safe to walk at night. Car crime seems increasingly restricted to people breaking into homes to steal keys to high value cars. That's not all that common, helped by various lockdowns over the last few years, and I have a low value car in any case. If I were to put my home on the market, the local crime rate would not be an issue.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Albuquerque has a serious crime problem, which had worsened over the decade while I lived there. Danbury, Connecticut is much smaller, and has a low crime rate.

The suburb of Huntsiville in which I live has a low crime rate, if you don't count tax cheats, traffic violations, or MAGA lies. I've never heard of anyone among my neighbors or co-worker getting a car stolen, car broken into, or a house burglary. That was not true in Albuquerque.

And I'm sorry to learn of your neighbors. Imagine the wreckage that has left behind in their family.