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My fiance and I are moving to Providence and are having a hard time finding the decent areas to live, everyone is giving us mixed advice. We wanted to stay on the East Side. What areas should we stay away from? Has anyone heard anything about these areas:
Wayland Square is quite a nice area in the East Side. Walkable, safe, nice. Fox Point is a larger area which used to be rather downtrodden, these days it's on the up with lots of college kids renting there. The housing there is often not quite up to par though, old apartments where nothing has been done for a while. It's getting better though.
Generally speaking, the East Side is a very decent area to live in Providence.
Thanks for the help. I have been finding a lot of apartments located near camp st. Some of the other forums have said that this is generally a bad area. How true is that?
Haha, thats what I thought. My fiance thought that I was being paranoid! What do you think about the Summit area, near burlington st?
I really appreciate everyones help, it is so hard moving to a new area and not knowing which sections are good. I want to be safe and appreciate all the help out there, thank you!
Believe me, stay away from Pleasant and Camp Streets. Burlington I think is just fine, but I can't say with certainty. In general, the closer you are to Hope Street and the farther away from North Main Street the better off you are likely to be.
Waterman St near Blackstone Park would be fine. However, Waterman is a fairly busy thoroughfare. I hope you're not going to do anything sight unseen. The best way is to come here and look around. the East Side is only a few miles in diameter. You'll quickly get a sense of what you like.
Avoid Pleasant St. and Doyle Ave west of Camp St. Though not as bad as they once were (there's actually condos on Pleasant St for sale now), they're still higher crime. In the Camp St area, (Mt Hope neighborhood), east of Camp is fine, west of Camp is a little seedy still with pockets of good and bad. Camp St itself is also hit or miss, there are a lot of decent fixed up places along there now, but it's not quite there yet. There are a few bad houses filled with druggies that ruin it for everyone else. It is affordable though.
The Summit neighborhood (north of Rochambeau Ave) is nice, decently affordable and pretty safe. There are shops and restaurants in this neighborhood along Hope st between Rochambeau and the numbered streets. Wayland Square is very nice and has shops and restaurants, but it's pricier. Areas around Brown U have lots of students.
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