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MotherofaPickle t1_j50u4a2 wrote

I would say north of Division, but Walnut to Division isn’t terrific in places either. (Lived there for five years.)

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Numerous-Mix-9775 t1_j519ziz wrote

Yeah, there is a lot of patchiness in between. There are some nice neighborhoods (around the OTC area isn’t bad) and some not-so-nice (stuff off of Grant can get dicey). Some of the houses in the Cox North area are quite nice, you get the beautiful old houses on Benton/Jefferson, but then if something is empty longer than a week, you’ve got a decent chance of someone breaking a window and squatting.

Used to do pharmaceutical deliveries and there were definitely neighborhoods in Springfield where I tried to make sure all the rest of my deliveries weren’t very visible in the car, especially if I had to go into an apartment or something. I also made sure if I had anything north I was going in the daylight.

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MotherofaPickle t1_j5pw2w8 wrote

I call it a “checkerboard town”. One block is great; next one, not so great.

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