@Stan Wu
Almost all of the violence has been a few blocks of Youngstowns south side I think maybe there's some gang activity going on. Most of Boardman is pretty nice and supported by the crazy amount of commercial enterprises there. I only know a couple parts of Mahoning county, I've lived in the neighboring Trumbull county my entire life. Here I've been looking at Girard, Niles, and SOME parts of Warren. Girard has a LOT of small multi family properties especially near the main strip in Girard. This is a fairly middle ground kind of place, decent business and they're not in the newspaper often, Niles has a lot of larger apartment complexes since it's got the Eastwood mall and Howland right by it. Howland is all doctors and lawyers, low crime but much higher end homes for this area. Warren is one of those cities where the street, and even which end of the street, is really important. It's got a lot of everything right next to each other, and some parts are ok and some parts make me nervous to even drive through. A good example is if you drive up and down East and West Market streets in Warren and look to your left and right as you drive. One side will be doctor's offices and nice homes, and the other side is a lot of run down homes, particularly in the space between niles and Warren. There's a town near here called North Jackson that is seeing a lot of warehouses and distribution centers opening in the past 5 years. Amazon, FedEx, and now Macys, despite North Jackson being about 2 streets total in the whole town. This is an area that may experience large growth over the next few years. Austintown isnt far from North Jackson, I dont hear about a lot happening in Austintown as far as crime and I think there's a mix of multi fam and single fam there as well.
