[prottog]

> many of them are literally a 10 minute bus ride to downtown

Is that 10-minute bus ride a pleasant experience on a daily basis? If you live in a quiet part of the city but must commute back and forth to downtown during which you run a non-negligible risk of a particular unpleasant encounter, then you don't gain a whole lot by being in that quiet part.

[scarmig]

Depends on the particular bus line. Yes, they can be unpleasant.

However, you do gain a whole lot living in a quiet area compared to living in the middle of the shitshow, and it's not close to comparable.