<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>I might go to Gatech in August and am looking for a off campus place to live... All I want to know is what areas are safe... If you can draw them by street would be much appreciated... I have been looking for Post Renaissance and Post Biltmore residences... any insight on this matter</p>
<p>Many people live at the M Street Apartments on Marietta Street. Also the Muses Lofts are on that street I think.</p>
<p>Beside homepark, other place are relatively safe. There was a murder near homepark and Centennial place is also in question of not being safe. My friend use to live there but some stranger came to door to door and see if each resident is empty during what time of the day. He planned the time of break in each resident and broke into 4 resident in single day after he knew what time those resident will not be there. As long as u live in good gate community with security working or in the dorm, I believe you will be safe</p>
<p>Thanks guys for the reply, but apart from specific location safety what about in the neighborhood. If I live in Post Renaissance, for example, I might have to walk from there to the University and wouldn’t like to be walking on not so safe places… plase help and thaks for the answers so far</p>
<p>If post renaissance is the place located southeast from campus (400 central…), its really not walking distance from georgia tech… you probably need some transportation from there to tech.</p>
<p>Post biltmore is gated and located near technology square. There’s trolley bus that you can ride into campus not so far from post biltmore but I know that place is not furnished. If you plan on walking from ur place to campus, I suggest post biltmore. More safe in post biltmore than post renaissance since its near technology square</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want to walk from Post Biltmore at night :\ If you live that far you should get a car</p>
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<p>You should look further out. There are apartment complexes near many MARTA stations. The ones further away from midtown are pretty inexpensive, including some of the Post ones (e.g. Lindbergh, Brookhaven; I know GT students who live at both).</p>
<p>If you want affordable and safe, you could look further out into Vinings (unincorporated Atlanta). The area is a fairly well-off (120K+ avg income, but still plenty of affordable properties, especially from Post) yuppie type of area in Cobb Co. and a MARTA route goes from the Cumberland-Vinings area to Midtown station (where the Tech Trolly stops), as well as several Xpress bus routes and CCT connecting routes. Depending on which bus you take and what time of day (traffic), it could take anywhere from 30 mins-1hr to commute using public transit, and about 10 mins by car.</p>
<p>Centennial Place is still fairly safe, IMO. I mean, I never feel unsafe in the area (they won’t even let people sit on their stoops or decorate it weird because it “will bring in the wrong element,” according to one security guard who told me I couldn’t sit on my stoop). As someone above me said, there were some break ins, but that wasn’t the norm when I had a place there. Homepark is kinda shady, though. It was doing alright for a while, but the economy tanked and crime in that area just kind of came back. M-Street is safe and gated. Unfortunately, Atlanta is a city with pockets of good neighborhoods with pockets of bad neighborhoods; you can drive on the same street and pass million dollar homes, then a block or two down, it’s ghetto, then affluent again. Gentrification, ya know?</p>
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<p>Why not? Post Biltmore is one block from Tech. During that one block walk, you have The Academy of Medicine (Tech building) to your Northeast, a new swanky hotel (with doorman and valet outside) to your Northwest, the Biltmore (office building) to your Southeast, and a Tech office building to your Southwest.</p>
<p>The most dangerous part about walking from Post Biltmore to Tech is not getting hit by a car when you cross West Peachtree or Spring.</p>