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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
As we're talking about (East) St. Louis, yesterday there was that incident with that couple pointing a machine gun against protesters.
Anyway, I found out it took place in an upmarket neighbourhood called Central West End which is actually inside St. Louis city proper. I didn't know there were very good neighbourhoods left in the city, only in the suburbs, a bit like Detroit.
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St. Louis has more than a few desirable neighborhoods within city limits in the central corridor and on the south side. The Central West End, Skinker-DeBaliviere, Demun, Hi-Point, Franz Park, Clayton-Tamm, The Hill, Southwest Garden, Northhampton, Southhampton, St. Louis Hills, Princeton Heights, Tower Grove South and East, Compton Heights, Shaw, Soulard, Lasalle Park... and a number of others where demand and home prices are soaring, like Forest Park Southeast, Benton Park, Fox Park, and Botanical Heights. And that's not including the neighborhoods that are *just* over the city line but walkably contiguous with the city, like Maplewood, the Moorlands, Parkview, and Wydown-Skinker.
The Central West End probably has the highest density and the most money, but the others are solid neighborhoods ranging from working class to upscale where homes are perpetually in high demand. And I would say that a lot of the neighborhoods that I didn't specifically mention aren't
un-desirable, but have issues to varying degrees and haven't yet seen the level of investment that some of the others have seen.
Much of the north side is another story, but there are still well-maintained and populated neighborhoods there as well, particularly on the near north side and along the northwest edge of the city.