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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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BrowniesAndMilk1 t1_j812wsc wrote

Nah dude the life we live is not meant for the faint of heart. You must adapt your abilities before it’s too late. Good luck.

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moravian t1_j815t63 wrote

Downtown Reading is a shithole.

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lidocainedreams t1_j8169zh wrote

Replying to EstablishedLeaf9279 (#1,774,026)

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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BitchyWitchy68 t1_j81jz0m wrote

I live in Reading and I don’t go out after dark.

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yeags86 t1_j82awa9 wrote

Replying to lidocainedreams (#1,773,958)

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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hayydebb t1_j848f1e wrote

Pa is a weird one. I moved to York which apparently has like 5x the crime rate of where I used to live but I’ve never seen or heard anything. But I’m sure if you asked about York people would say it isn’t safe as well so it’s all just where in the city you are

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theREALPLM t1_j8492vc wrote

My co-worker wanted to move to Reading to raise his son in a more cultured area than our rural slum. He hadn’t moved yet but he spent a lot of time there outside of work until he got shot to death one evening in November.

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theREALPLM t1_j849493 wrote

My co-worker wanted to move to Reading to raise his son in a more cultured area than our rural slum. He hadn’t moved yet but he spent a lot of time there outside of work until he got shot to death one evening in November.

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theREALPLM t1_j849qqo wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,776,763)

My co-worker wanted to move to Reading to raise his son in a more cultured area than our rural slum. I emphasized to him that our hometown was safer and had a decent school district. He hadn’t moved yet but he spent a lot of time there outside of work until he got shot to death one evening in November. They haven’t made any arrests.

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theREALPLM t1_j849s93 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,776,763)

My co-worker wanted to move to Reading to raise his son in a more cultured area than our rural slum. I emphasized to him that our hometown was safer and had a decent school district. He hadn’t moved yet but he spent a lot of time there outside of work until he got shot to death one evening in November. They haven’t made any arrests.

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CardiBsKnees t1_j84yq65 wrote

Replying to EstablishedLeaf9279 (#1,774,026)

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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AtBat3 t1_j86ghlw wrote

You’re like 5 minutes away from it go check it out for yourself

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artificialavocado t1_j87cail wrote

Replying to BeatsMeByDre (#1,781,439)

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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artificialavocado t1_j87cvy4 wrote

Replying to CardiBsKnees (#1,780,898)

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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sageTDS t1_j898x04 wrote

Replying to hayydebb (#1,779,441)

If you live in the nicer neighborhoods northwest of downtown or in a neighborhood that's not actually part of the city proper then you are unlikely to see or hear anything.

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Christopher_Walkman t1_j8dc1tm wrote

its as dangerous as any other city, lots of people raise their families there and it recently got out of financial recovery. people in the city are putting in the work to make it better

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dalex89 t1_j8df44y wrote

I lived in Reading for 8 months and twice had people hit my car then try to scam me into giving them money. That wasn't even a bad part of town, just across the river on Lancaster ave

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No-Setting9690 t1_j8fbnp5 wrote

I'm currently in Muhlenberg. I would say most of it is, every major city has some areas you do not want to take your family into.
I've live around Reading for 35/36 years of my life. I can say I have never felt unsafe in certain areas, I've delivered food to every single block in all of Reading. Sometimes with almost 2k in my pocket (Room Service Express think UberEats\GrubHub before it existed).

I am a middle age white male, somewhat built. This can help sometimes too.

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Sus_Whore t1_j8nmydf wrote

I'm in Reading a lot usually by myself as a 19 y/o girl and I've yet to had any trouble, I don't live there but live in a town right outside it so I have to venture there on an almost daily basis. It is very poor though.

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