Honestly you don’t even have to worry about walking outside at night unless you look rich or are hot.

Thanks for this!

I’ve lived 2 streets over from Sherman and can say that you have been running with shit circles bro. Mind your own and stop trying to screw people over and those people will fall away. Yea, you still want to chain down anything in the yard and don’t do stupid shit to invite robbers like leaving udo or unlocked, but you only see groups like this on the north side of you are going to a trap house. You are telling on yourself here.

Prettier too, if run down. You see a lot more in the way of murals/yard art/interesting paint jobs. South side looks like it should be a tax haven with all the squat grey buildings.

I grew up primarily in the neighborhood next to valley water mill, Stewart street. Which is considered north I think. That area is paradise to me, but could be nostalgia

And the SE side of Springfield is the Domestic Abuse Zone. Broad strokes don't work.

So you're saying the reason I don't see all the meth addicts randomly roaming my neighborhood as this gentleman describes is that they're south of my north side neighborhood? And that it gets really bad once you go south of the middle of town?

I feel like there's a big difference in what people in this town consider the north and south side. I find it hard to consider south of downtown as the north side.

Wow I opened a can of beans but obviously there is a huge problem in Springfield with pay like there always has been, and possibly the influx of people from other states infuencing the local job market and hiring processes.And when people say Springfield has a low cost of living..... compared to LA yeah but I was stationed in Tx I could for example get a job there paying 10k or more than the same job here, with a lower cost of living!

Man I’m just tryna support my family and give them a better life than I had. I can’t do that working at McDonalds, Walmart, Taco Bell, or any of the other jobs I had, but I guess that makes me a bad guy.

I am not going to downvote that, because I was following until your last statement. I don't blame the homeless for the problems. I have had a naked homeless kid break into 3 of my cars within a month. I refuse to make the blanket statement "homeless because that is the f****** problem". I would be willing to go out on a limb, without any research, and say that I think crime committed by people with dwellings outnumber the crime of those without by over 200%. I would love to see the data.

If the cult pays then fuck it. I’m a space Alien or whatever

I completely understand your point. There’s more complexity to that too but I’m not even going in on that considering the responses.

Trust me though it doesn’t make a difference when housing is over double. I lived in co Springs for 3 years and living wage was fine, housing made the wage comparable to equal jobs in Springfield, whether its medical or retail or whatever. Springfield is top notch for affordable housing.

I live on the northeast side. The neighborhood I am in seems to be undergoing some kind of gentrification. They're building new houses, remodeling houses, rents are going up and property values are going up. Most of the houses in my neighborhood are 20 to 40 years old and in the realm of 1000 to 1200 ft but there is low inventory in the houses still so quickly.

When you look at the Northwest side, there's a high inventory of cheap houses. Houses aren't selling quickly. Lots of lipstick on pig, type of situations and a lot of crime.

You hear people blame the homeless because that is the f****** problem. A lot of the crime around here is committed by people that are not from here and do not belong here. The homeless trash and pollute everywhere they go and refuse any kind of real help to make their lives better.

Fuck yeah it depends on the work? someone who can successfully do many jobs wouldn’t be considering their pay per labor? Idiocracy.

I'm not gonna lie I've considered starting a cult/church more than once. With the surplus of idiots tripping over each other to donate to churches as is, it's tempting to take advantage

You’re incredibly dense and ignorant. Your version of a living wage is incomparable to that of the 70s, 80s, and 90s generations. Sounds like you’re the one crying about hard life’s been for you. As a collective we need to get ahold of our projections and bias of what we’ve lived through thus far in order to change the way we interact with our economy because clearly both sides of the coin aren’t happy.

Not in your exact area, but just south of there, yes.

And even more south of there…the amount of times I’ve had to call EMS for meth/heroin reasons (just south of downtown) is crazy to me.

that is a good point. north east side of springfield is really nice actually. they have that new wild horse subdivision, etc. compare that to the north west side and its a whole different story

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

Literally between this and your post from two days ago- it shows you really haven’t been there. Just shut it and move on.

Yeah, that's where I saw it. I was just curious if it was happening locally.

Was robbed at gun point right off west my Vernon.

It's not "north side" that's the problem, it's north westish.

That’s okay, but the thing is, he doesn’t have a major. He took random ass classes and thought that it would be good enough.

He can’t work in a different field, as compared to his major, because his major doesn’t exist.

We all know to avoid the Karens who live on the South side. Everybody knows.