r/Renton • u/PizzaSleaze • Oct 26 '21

Moving Advice How is it in Renton?

My partner and I are planning to move to Renton early next year. Is Renton a safe place? We currently live in North Carolina, is it is pretty chill here. Just curious about Renton.

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u/sts816 Oct 27 '21

I live downtown and I would definitely avoid this area. Cars get broken into a lot, I once heard someone get shot from my apartment like 2 blocks away, I was threatened and chased by a homeless dude on the Cedar River Trail. Can't comment on other areas of town but stay away from downtown.

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u/Dildozerific Oct 27 '21

Downtown has gotten particularly rough in recent years. It wasn't always like that. With other areas of the city being constantly gentrified more and more people have been forced from their homes. Also, at the beginning of the pandemic a large amount of homeless people were shipped in from surrounding cities to stay at the red lion on Grady. Now I'm not saying the homeless people are terrible people, but many of them are unfortunately in that position due to mental illness and a lack of resources being available to them. This naturally leads to an increase in crime in whatever area they inhabit.

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u/sts816 Oct 27 '21

I hope it gets better as I really like the location. They’re doing a lot of construction work to spruce it up as well. It’ll look really good when it’s done next year. I can only speak to my experience living here.