I've gotten to know West Warwick a lot better since I moved right to the Warwick side of the border. I've lived pretty close for the past eight years but sometimes thought about how little I was actually there. Now that it's close enough that I could walk there in 10 minutes, I don't really have a choice!

Basically, it's a mixed bag. Some of it is gritty and unpleasant, other parts look like any suburbia anywhere. As others have said, none of it is really unsafe. There's even a little bit of charm there -- the bike path, old converted mills. It is very far from my favorite place in the state, but if you're looking for a value, you could do a lot worse. I guess that's not a ringing endorsement but what I'm trying to say is that it varies a lot from neighborhood to neighborhood and the worst that it gets is "kinda unattractive and trashy."