Learn your street before moving?

We recently sold a house and purchased a new one. With the divisions in this country today, I wanted to find a place with true diversity. I found this site that tells you the ages, politics, and in some states, the ethnicity of the people on the street. It's a great tool for selecting where you'd want to live.
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It cant find a single street in my neighborhood

 

Does that make the site seem spot on or incorrect?

 

ditto

 

it actually found my street, which is really surprising since it's just a 100 yard long dead end. the local snow plows and pothole filling crews can't even find my street.

and it answered an interesting question for me. there seem to be about 30 hillbillies that live in the house across the street, but according to this there's only 5.

 

It's pretty simple to know where you are going to move to.
Just make sure you aren't in an area where you find many criminals.

Where i live in Australia, you can get plenty of hoons and other dickheads who do the wrong thing.
If i wanted to live in a place that was full of weirdos i'd probably move to wendouree west where you get a heap of different people doing all sorts of things.

I reckon when i lived in Wendouree i had my fair share of weirdos.
Including one dude who decided to rock up at my unit playing around with his dick and then taking a leak on my bedroom window.

Disgusting.

Where i am now is safe.

 

I did the drive around for sure, but i live in a peaceful part of the world so it didn't matter where I moved here.

When I moved out of home into town house renting then yes we looked at our neighbours and decided whether or not we wanted to live there. Just look at the neighbours gardens and yard, if it's all scrappy then it was a no go zone. Less chance of people looking out for your place if they don't even care about their own.

 

Too funny! I guess there are lots of things you can discover about your neighbors with a little help from the Internet, huh?

 

I should have checked better, my former downtown street was much more pleasant. Happily I'm on the first floor and don't hang in the street here a lot anyway.
But... this site in OP would be worthless as I can not determine shit on only diversity. Esp downtown this could indicate shit neighbors just as easily as the opposite. Besides, cities (esp centres/downtown) are almost always diverse here anyways. Neighbourhoods far less.

 

no one else's review is going to tell your gut, your soul, your sense of being, as much about a place, as riding there on public transit and walking around in it.
for me, any place you don't have a car making you a second class citizen is as much or more a no go zone as poverty.
the real no go zone, rich or poor, is how people act toward each other in public. i mean you can see, not from one person of course, but by observing a lot of people,
if they're all hostile toward anyone who doesn't look like them, or even if they're all hostile all the time toward everyone,
well some people aren't bothered to live like that, but i sure would be.

and that gets down to, there's really no one size fits all. i really doubt anyone is ever going to feel like they belong anyplace they don't know as well as having lived there for at least half a year,
and i really don't believe any one review is ever going to reliably tell you that. maybe a consensus of a whole bunch of them,
but the idea that you're going to know a place, even know it enough to try it, from something like that, i just don't buy it.

 

When friends of ours bought a new house, they could not get into the attic.
The neighbors had cut a hole in the wall, installed a floor (over the opening) and converted it into a bedroom for half a dozen of their friends.
When it was investigated, they had more than 30 people living in their 2 bedroom house. Many of them were shift workers, so they had shifts in the bedrooms too.

 

It does not seem to work in the UK either.

 

While the data that it yields are interesting, I don't think the database is up to date--maybe a few years outdated.

 

Pretty sure you can look around and tell a shithole from a shithole.. just go to the gas station and count crackheads. more than 3 crackhead, move .. 1 crackhead. meh deal with it..

 

There are crackheads everywhere though.

 

They're well hidden here

 

Did ya'll have "town crazy people" growing up? Like nicknames for certain homeless people who had some kind of memorable character?

I used to have "Seal" who was this big African American dude who looked like Seal and always marched around town wearing a wet suit and spinning some sort of sporting implement, like a across or hockey stick.

We also had "the skirt dude" who would walk around in a skirt and no underwear and sometimes he could be spotted assaulting trees and shrubbery.

Aaand of course there was "the cowboy" who was just a man who was spotted everywhere at all hours wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots.

 

yes. that's why I put in numbers..

 

In the village I grew up near there were enough village idiots/lowlife crazy folks with commonly used nicknames. In the city I'm in now there are actually homeless drug addicts but although some are quite wellknown i don't know of any names
You rarely need to move for them in my country unless you're in the worst hood of some cities.

 

There's a panhandler in my city who wears rubber boots (like wellies) and spandex pants though. He's quite a site and wellknown. Not sure he has a nick. I had a teacher who went to school with him and said he's real smart.