[kelseyfrancis]

I love Atlanta, but let's be real: the northwest side of town is getting better but it is hardly "perfectly safe". People have been held up at gunpoint on 10th Street where I walked daily, literally across the road from Georgia Tech, in the middle of the day. My old house in Home Park -- about a mile from Collier Hills? -- was broken into in broad daylight. A house three lots down the street was raided by police because some criminal organization was being run out of it. At an apartment complex I lived at in the same area (10th and Northside), the apartment next door to me and a bunch of others were broken into. In the parking garage at that same apartment complex, a Georgia Tech student was shot in the chest during a random crime and very nearly killed. These are just the incidences that I remember and that I have a fairly close connection to, as a counter to your own, more fortunate anecdote.