Best suburb for middle aged parents with kids finishing high school

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Originally Posted by Wmsn4Life

The conventional wisdom on that is ... if you don't participate in a high-crime lifestyle (drugs, gangs, etc) you typically can move into a safe neighborhood and not have any problems whatsoever.

That doesn't mean you will NEVER be a crime victim, but, generally speaking, non-property crime here is not random.

There is also some issue with the way Tennessee reports crimes that makes our rating seem worse than it is. Yes, there certainly is crime here, and even the safest areas have break-ins and vehicle smash-and-grabs, but if you use street smarts and live in a safe area, you should have no problems.

I appreciate this. I tried telling my wife this. We have lived most of our lives in the Phoenix area and it seems even the "nicer" area's fall victim anymore to crime, drive-by's, theft, burglary etc. That's just the way it seems to be anymore. It's the more "violent-crime" assaults that worries us. Our old neighborhood in Phx was once a really good neighborhood, even some million dollar homes in the neighborhood, but everynight, police cars, sirens, helicopters, police stopping by asking if we saw anything etc. Don't want to be around that nonsense anymore.. So just curious. Thank you.