Coral Gables, S. Miami, and Coconut Grove: Help Needed (Hialeah: apartment, rental)

[iamanewcomer]

Originally Posted by crisp444

For Coconut Grove, I would say that you should avoid the area in which:
US1 forms the western bound
Franklin Avenue/Charles Terrace/Grant Drive forms the southern bound
McDonald Street forms the eastern bound, and
Bird Road forms the northern bound.

Virtually everything else is very nice.



The area between 37th Ave. and 27th Ave. from US1 to Coral Way (22nd St.) is a lower-middle class area. Safe, but more blue collar than affluent. This is not Coconut Grove, but rather the part of the "Coral Way" area of the City of Miami. West of 37th Ave. (Coral Gables) and East of 27th Ave. (Shenandoah neighborhood of the City of Miami) are nicer. The Roads neighborhood is located east of 12th Ave. and south of 11th St (I-95 curves and makes up the eastern and southern boundaries of the neighborhood).



There is nowhere in the entire City of Coral Gables that I would recommend that you avoid. 8th St. is the northern boundary of Coral Gables and there isn't anything south of there that isn't nice. North of 8th St. is lower-middle class / middle class area, so you don't have to worry about large amounts of spillover crime (because that area isn't a ghetto).

The generalization to avoid the area west of US1 is a bad one to use; there are some beautiful streets west of the university. What your friend may have meant is to avoid some streets SW of the university that are in the City of South Miami, particularly the small area around 64th Street directly west of Red Rd. (57th Ave.)

Yes, Coral Gables does extend over US1 toward Biscayne Bay. ALL of that is an extremely safe and affluent area.



You must have mixed up your friend's advice because the area s/he recommended is actually the "bad area" of which I speak above. Everything else in South Miami is nice.

The area whose boundaries you are trying to find is either South Miami or Coral Gables. I am not sure which it is, but I can tell you that all of it is very safe and nice.

Would you say that the area around Virrick Park is the best in Coconut Grove ?

[kevinkagy]

Originally Posted by iamanewcomer

Would you say that the area around Virrick Park is the best in Coconut Grove ?

Considering Virrick Park is in the "bad" part of the Grove, the answer is no. Anything outside of the area that is highlighted blue in the map in the Grove is great for renting. The difference between a street in the blue area and a street right next to it outside of the blue area, is a huge difference, it's night and day. Just stay oustide of the bad parts, and you'll be fine.

[twiggers]

Thanks Kevin and Crisp! SO I can go all the way down to the bay and be OK (except for that one area of the Grove)?

[iamanewcomer]

Originally Posted by kevinkagy

Considering Virrick Park is in the "bad" part of the Grove, the answer is no. Anything outside of the area that is highlighted blue in the map in the Grove is great for renting. The difference between a street in the blue area and a street right next to it outside of the blue area, is a huge difference, it's night and day. Just stay oustide of the bad parts, and you'll be fine.

Oops,but I...followed the ...guidelines .

[iamanewcomer]

Sorry,I got it wrong,thought that the blu area is the...desirable...

[twiggers]

Ahhhh.....no the blue area = bad areas! I am going to play around with the map a bit and maybe change it to green = good and red = bad....maybe start a new post and have people give information about it and create an entire Miami map of the good vs. bad neighborhoods.

[iamanewcomer]

Great idea...

( In the "bad " area,lots cost...400K !)

BTW,what about an area which looks ideal for boaters,right "above " the Marina,
between
1 Federal- 22 east- Tigertail- 27 east ...?

[iamanewcomer]

If you colour the Mi map in

green= good,

orange = acceptable

red =bad.

& your info is right,

then you will create one of the most popular threads & make this website really helpful.

Info you find here cannot be found elsewhere...

[iamanewcomer]

I hope that the commentators return to this very interesting & helpful thread...

[crisp444]

I can comment more, I suppose, but I've answered all of the questions that have been asked! Haha maybe we should make this thread a "sticky" because that map is awesome. I should play around on Google Maps and make a map like that for all of Miami-Dade County