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Originally Posted by AnfieldRiot
Thanks for all of the info everyone, much appreciated.
How about parking... I really don't want nor sure if I can afford a $200 a month charge to park in a garage. How safe is street parking ? I know the usual pitfalls of dings and scratches may come from parking on the street but are break ins and theft that bad ?
Also... how is the White City area ? The most affordable places to live I see are around there but the stories I've read makes it seem to be full of lowlife's ?
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You're from Jersey, right? You can handle White Center. It's the crime/low income area of the greater West Seattle area. Your other option is an Apodment. There are a bunch of these popping up. Little 200-400sqft apartments for like $600-$800 a month.
If you're talking parking in West Seattle just park on the street and you'll be fine. If you're talking parking in Downtown Seattle there's no such thing as cheap street parking. I guess you could park like 2 miles away and walk where you need to go but at that point why even bother doing that instead of busing it?
I live off California Ave in West Seattle near the Zeek's Pizza and it's a pretty nice area. If you go about 10 minutes south you start to hit the lower cost places but it's still relatively safe.
If you don't want your car broken into just never leave anything of value visible. Cars with alarms don't get targeted anywhere near as much as cars without them. Thieves in the area are pretty smart I've gotta hand that to them at least because they typically target cars with no alarms that have gym/shopping bags sitting in plain sight.