eh, people think it's a bad neighborhood, but I know folks in other parts of town that have similar problems and supposedly live in "nice areas".

Lot's of section 8 and duplexes. Can't fix it. All the old timers back in the 40's and 50's built duplexes on the large lots they owned to "make money" during retirement, now they are dieing off and leaving the duplexes to HUD or selling them off to slum lords. Eventually we get our revenge on the slum lords though, if they have a bad renter, we make sure they know about it. Police reports, phone calls to city code enforcement etc. Took 2 years to get rid of the last batch of renters. Landlord won't do that again, lost a lot of money on them. (home repairs)

I've got good neighbors at the moment, the ones in the rental across the street are mostly quiet and don't bother anyone, so who cares if they are drunk and don't realize someone just ran over their lawn.

My only suggestion though, move into the "center" of a city, don't live near the border of several other cities. (not far off denver, edgewater, wheatridge, in lakewood) seem to get a lot of riff raff passing through. (colfax) Each city pushes the riff raff back to the other side, back and forth.

and don't live on a corner of a couple semi-major streets.