cheesebot

Hello all, I just read through through all the comments here and I felt I had to come in as the lone voice from Elmwood. I moved over here from the East Side a few months ago and I must say that I'm so much happier here. We were kind of rushed into buying on the East Side when my girlfriend got a job offer from Brown about six months before we were planning to move (from New York) and we didn't know any neighborhoods beforehand. Basically, it was too expensive and too boring for us. Without dogs or kids we felt out-of-place, and NOBODY works on their own cars or house - ahem. So after a couple of years figuring out the city (yeah, we take our time) we sold and found a beautiful plaqued victorian in historic Elmwood and I couldn't be happier. We met almost every neighbor within a few days. The street is the second nicest in Providence (after Benefit, of course). This is a lively, interesting neighborhood where we can sit on the porch every afternoon with beer/wine/daiquiri and chat with everyone who passes by. I don't know why people are so scared of Elmwood. I saw more crime and graffiti on the East Side. And the best part? My mortgage is less than a third of what I was paying on the East Side! So that's all for now, but if anyone has questions about Elmwood feel free to ask away.