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lidocainedreams t1_j81056x wrote

I mean, reading is huge so it depends. Cotton Street? Absolutely not. West Reading/Penn Avenue/Wyomissing/Exeter, absolutely.

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EstablishedLeaf9279 OP t1_j811g13 wrote

I wish I could give you an award but I'm broke

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lidocainedreams t1_j8169zh wrote

Saw you’re in Laureldale- cute neighborhoods but I’ve heard muhlenburg is getting bad as far as schools go. Like i said it really depends. I live in Exeter/Oley but have a reading address, I love where I live and would absolutely raise a family there.

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CardiBsKnees t1_j84yq65 wrote

Id also add that, unless you are actively involving yourself in the drug trade, you are unlikely to have issues in the city itself. My wife works in the city, never had any issues. I also used to work in the city, and never a problem.

Judy's is great, Santander & Doubletree are fun for events, Alvernia just poured a bunch of money into their new Penn Street campus, IMAX and the Goggleworks are great. Theres also deck hockey leagues that play down by RACC, never any issues at all, and all those places are in the city itself.

Im sure if you get away from Penn Street and the business corridor, you can find issues. But I also have no idea why you'd be venturing to those places for the lolz.

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artificialavocado t1_j87cvy4 wrote

I agree. I’m not exactly the type of person afraid of poor areas but many people are. I lived in a bad part of Philly years ago and they were the nicest people ever. But yeah random acts of violent or robbery of course can happen but are kind of rare at least in Reading. It is mostly gang or drug related. Be mindful and use some common sense if for whatever reason you are passing through. Those neighborhoods are all residential so yeah there isn’t much reason to be wandering around.

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artificialavocado t1_j82pstk wrote

My brother lived in West Reading for awhile it’s nice but is gentrified.

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BeatsMeByDre t1_j83m31l wrote

How is gentrified bad??

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artificialavocado t1_j83maju wrote

I didn’t say it was necessarily bad.

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BeatsMeByDre t1_j856s7q wrote

You differentiate it from nice, just asking how so

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artificialavocado t1_j87cail wrote

I phrased it clumsy. Not so much in the context of this discussion but when places gentrify rent and stuff usually goes up very quickly so it becomes unlivable for a lot of the folks that used to live there sometimes cresting every denser pockets of poverty somewhere else. It can be a double edge sword sometimes.

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yeags86 t1_j82awa9 wrote

Add most of Shillington to the list. I’m on the south end of it. Nice little suburb of older semi detached or small single houses built in the late 1920-early 1930s. Most of them have been updated since then but not all of them are fully modern.

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lidocainedreams t1_j82mx9k wrote

That’s right! I used to rent an apartment in Shillington and loved our neighborhood

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No-Setting9690 t1_j8fbt8h wrote

Thought Cotton was better with the MC club at the end? Now that question is based on like 10 year ago data. So don't look to much into it.

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