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Old 02-28-2010, 02:40 PM
 
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My family (husband, three young kids and I) found a house we love in Lakewood (right around the corner from the Lakewood Amphitheater). Is this a safe area? When you first get off 85, it's very seedy looking--run down buildings, crappy pavement, etc., but when you get off Pryor onto the street where we're looking (Pickfair) it's completely different--there are new construction houses, apartments, etc. Is this a safe area? Are the schools any good?
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Old 02-28-2010, 06:28 PM
 
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I used to drive through Lakewood to get to Marta. It did not look appealing. If you are moving into one of the nicer developments surrounded by seedy areas, there is a significant possibility your neighborhood will become a target for crime. Mainly because criminals will believe you have things to steal.
About a year ago ,there was a news story about nearly ten families who lived in Lakewood. These families chose to allow the banks to foreclose on their houses, because of the crime. As someone who also lives in the city, with break-ins happening in my neighborhood, there is no way I would move to Lakewood.
If you want an honest, non-paranoid, and non-biased opinion of the area attend your target areas neighborhood meeting.
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Old 03-01-2010, 06:13 AM
 
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Oh my God...I wonder if that's the neighborhood we're looking at (or if it's the same thing happening in a different neighborhood). Most of the houses on the street are either foreclosures or short sales. Good lord. Well, thanks for the excellent info--we'll be looking somewhere else!
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Old 03-01-2010, 11:33 AM
 
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You may want to rethink that move. Lakewood has a lot of potential with its older homes and somewhat dense commercial nodes, but it is currently racked with problems--including crime, empty houses that are eventually stripped of copper and sometimes appropriated by derelicts, and low levels of services. Moving there would require the patience that only a non-family household could have.
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