So, I have lived in Woodbridge for awhile now renting and I really have fallen for the city and want to stay here for awhile. I want to buy a house at this point; I am done with renting.

I know there are plenty of other neighborhoods, and believe me I am looking everywhere. But there is one property in particular that I like in Southwest/Mexicantown. I have frequented the area mainly on the east side for the restaurants and nightlife, and ridden my bicycle around the area getting a feel for the community. Still, I don't think I have a proper idea of what it means to live there.

I feel like I have been spoiled in Woodbridge, we get the Wayne State cops patrolling periodically and the the area is much more gentrified [[which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it, but it is safer than most areas).

I have asked my friends about living in Southwest, and I have gotten mixed opinions, and I don't really know anybody that lives in that area currently. I have gotten responses stating it is a great place, has lots of character and culture and they wouldn't mind living there. Then I get people telling me it is much tougher and people they know that live there get their cars and homes broken into more often. However, most people seem to have to have sweeping opinions of Southwest as a whole, when I feel like it is a very differentiated community with different pockets of good and bad areas. That being said, the property I am looking at is on Morrell just south of Vernor, so a block east of Junction off Vernor. Not quite in the sweet spot of Hubbard Farms, but still a couple blocks away. Is there anybody body familiar with this area specifically or know people that live close to there?

I want to stay in Detroit, but I also don't want to constantly fear my house and car will be violated while I am away. I know I would do things to deter this from happening anywhere I would move to in Detroit, but I don't want to move somewhere for the long haul and really regret it if crime is much worse than I originally thought.

So, basically I want the previous question answered about that area specifically of Vernor and Morrell. I don't want suggestions necessarily on other places to look because trust me, I am looking all over. The last house I almost had, that I had really fallen for, was in Boston Edison, in great shape, included the empty side lot and was only 100k. I put my offer in the same day above asking and lost to a cash offer. I am growing very tired of looking, it is very exhausting.