Is a $37/night AirBNB in Chicago too good to be true?

I used to live in the North and that was safe, and the South’s reputation is overhyped except for a few certain streets (not just the whole neighborhood) in certain neighborhoods*. As in, even in the “bad” neighborhoods you won’t get shot randomly.

What neighborhood is it in?

*the exceptions are Garfield Park and Englewood. Avoid these if you can - they’re the worst in the city

0/10.

It's Englewood but I looked it up on Niche and the crime rate is below or at the national average. Murder rate is 5.6 compared to 6.4, but assault is 508 vs 282.7

65th and Ingleside

I would just read the reviews from people who have stayed there. Cities are big and vary block to block in terms of who lives there and what kind of scene it is. A friend of mine lives in a neighborhood with a bad reputation (not in Chicago). Reading the news you'd never want to go there, but his neighbors are almost entirely elderly immigrants who are friendly, quiet, and keep well maintained houses. So just see what people say about the place. If there's daily drive-bys next door, it'd never succeed as a rental and I think you'd find that out.

Same pathetic poster makes same pathetic thread.

Jim Croce summed it up pretty well.

"Well, the south side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man name of Leroy Brown"

Did you research the area?

(Might be something specific.)

Lol right wingers

Englewood is a warzone

Englewood Colorado is not Englewood Chicago

If you actually chose this AirBnB, I hope you were unscathed. I also had seen a couple of very cheap ones but they're all in the worst neighborhood(s).

Chose to spend the night at a safe downtown hotel instead.

Did you just respond to your own dumb bump of your own dumb thread?

Yes.

0/10, as usual, to this pathetic racist thread. At least it's Chicago now and not Baltimore.

I do seriously have to wonder how small the dick is of the person who keeps posting this garbage.

How is this thread racist? He's asking a perfectly legitimate question about safety in Chicago.

You seem to be assuming that crime is committed by certain non-white groups. Educate yourself and do better - isn't that belief inequitable and not inclusive?

The loser literally bumped a thread pretending to be someone else and then slipped up and posted under the same handle again. So embarrassing, so pathetic.

Plenty of websites that list the demographics of different areas in cities.

My advice is: if the area is mostly White, avoid it.