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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Moving to South Portland?
My husband just took a job in the Portland area so we are looking to move instead of him commuting. Is there any places in Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, ect that we should definitely avoid? I've looked at a few apartment complex's online (Redbank, Princeton Pines, Brick Hill, Summit Terrace, ect) but its hard to really tell from the pictures. We're going to see a couple on Friday and I am just keeping my fingers crossed they arent in a bad area or ghetto-ish.
Re: Moving to South Portland?
I would avoid Red Bank. The apartments themselves aren't too bad on the inside, but the complex has a pretty bad reputation as far as the people that live there. I am not sure about the other places you mentioned.
DH and I lived in S. Portland for 3 years. We lived over near the Coast Guard Base and Southern Maine Community College area. I would definitely recommend that section of town as opposed to the mall area, but that's just my preference. We lived at Mill Company Gardens (actually owned by the same people as Red Bank). The apartment itself wasn't anything spectacular, but it was in a nice area of town (close to Portland, Mill Creek shopping area, Green Belt walkway, Willard Beach and Casco Bay). The landlord, Larry (not sure if he's still there or not) was great and the maintenance dept was always timely with any issues.
I've only lived in Portland. The absolute worst neighborhood I lived in was in the West End of Portland, right off of Congress Street. We lived on Horton Place off of Dow and it was AWFUL. The SWAT team raided my apartment one day looking for some drug dealer who apparently used to live there. I saw more fights and drama out my window than anywhere else I've ever lived.
The nicest neighborhoods I've lived in are near the USM campus in Portland. I also had a good experience living on Spruce St. in the West End (further from Congress Street than the terrible neighborhood I lived in).
Red Bank has a bad reputation, but we actually lived there for 2 or 3 years quite pleasantly. I think maybe it's cleaned up a little and some parts of it are crappier than others. It's a lot of lower income families, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, and some younger couples and college students. Our neighbors on all sides were very nice, quiet, just people that couldn't afford a house. We had a two bedroom duplex, our own basement, yard, driveway. We could garden, have BBQ's etc. We were tired of living in an apartment, but couldn't afford a house, so this was a nice compromise. Our apartment was actually in pretty good shape. Not for everyone, but it worked for us at the time, so I had to represent!
If I was going to live in S. Portland again now, I'd rather live in the Mill Creek part of S. Portland.
Before that we lived in Park Side on High St. in Portland...now that is a bad place to live, so I might be biased. (Okay, clearly we picked our apartments based on our budget rather than the location!!)