boundaries for where you would live in Wicker Park/Bucktown/South Loop (Ashland: real estate, renter)

[surlycue]

Originally Posted by grapico

South loop???

the Harrison north/Wells West, Michigan East, Roosevelt South corridor is safe. once you past roosevelt though... I'd only go east of State street down to 18thish.

You're nuts. South of Roosevelt to the end of whatever fuzzy neighborhood boundaries South Loopis fine. Cermak is fine too unless you are worried about the Yakuza.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by jessiegirl_98

ha! OK, so if Western is the West edge, what would your north/south/east boundaries be?

Thanks!

To be honest with you I would stay E/W between Damen and Wood.

N/S between North Ave. and Armitage.

That is the best advice I can give.

It is really hard to narrow things down because of all the scattered sites (that I do not have the addresses to or know of off the top of my head) that are in Wicker Park and Bucktown.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

I think this may be what we had in our alley. We lived on Evergreen, but shared an alley with Wolcott--and there were two new-ish (1980s?) low income buildings on the alley that caused BIG TROUBLE for us...

Yes, there are plenty of low-income buildings built between 1980-1990 as well to the newer ones in Wicker Park,Bucktown,and Ukrainian Village.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by Jesse69

On on the edge near Western, on Oakley, and everything here is A - OK...

In fact, Oakley is one of the streets that have a huge number of questionable characters and crap buildings. The closer you get to Division the worse it gets.

[Mister Mappy]

I live on Webster just west of Damen and it's fine. There are no scattered site housing developments over here, nor do there seem to be north of Armitage & east of Western. I know there is a few in Wicker Park south of North Ave. Basically, north of Armitage is fine east of Western, it's been gentrified for the most part.

[brainiac138]

The South Loop is predominantly Columbia College now, it is crowded, and people are mugged frequently. However, I guess that is true of the other neighborhoods you mentioned, it is just Columbia kids really crowd up the South Loop.

[aragx6]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

I think this may be what we had in our alley. We lived on Evergreen, but shared an alley with Wolcott--and there were two new-ish (1980s?) low income buildings on the alley that caused BIG TROUBLE for us. This was in the heart of Wicker Park on a block with multi-million dollar homes. I now avoid the so-called "affordable housing" like the plague and have embraced staunchly conservative housing policy. Living in Uptown pushed me over the top!

We looked at a place -- I *think* it was at Hoyne and LeMoyne (we looked at like 8 apartments so my memory is failing me) -- that was right next to a Bieckerdike and specifically because of what I'd learned on this forum, we crossed that place off our list.

As far as a northern boundary? Other than accessibility to the el, there's not much reason to worry. We looked at a place at Webster and Hoyne in Bucktown that was really nice, but we wanted to be closer to the l and to the heart of the neighborhood. But safety wise it seemed perfectly fine.

[jessiegirl_98]

Thanks guys and gals!! That helps!

[grapico]

Originally Posted by surlycue

You're nuts. South of Roosevelt to the end of whatever fuzzy neighborhood boundaries South Loopis fine. Cermak is fine too unless you are worried about the Yakuza.

yes, south of roosevelt east of dearborn/state street area... if you go down to the bottom towards cermak its projects by the white castle, etc.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by grapico

yes, south of roosevelt east of dearborn/state street area... if you go down to the bottom towards cermak its projects by the white castle, etc.

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