South Bend - need advice about buying a house
My husband and I are considering buying a Victorian in the Chapin Park neighborhood of South Bend as a weekend house. We've always wanted a historic home, but we live and work in Chicago and the prices are so high here, we can't even afford a dingy little fixer-upper in our far north neighborhood. But since prices are much lower in South Bend, we can probably manage to buy this house and keep our little condo in Chicago. But we don't really know much about South Bend and we're concerned about a) crime, b) falling housing prices, and c) neighborhood ire because we can afford to have a big house just for weekends.
So if anyone who currently lives in South Bend can tell us about the Chapin Park neighborhood and the surrounding area - whether it's safe, depressed or up-and-coming, whatever - and how South Bend itself is economically and how it appears to be going, we'd appreciate it.
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