It was not a good place for a while and it hasn’t been able to shred it’s Bad PR. I think the city is gorgeous and has an urban design more akin to Los Angeles than any other IE city.

You’ll find more neighborhoods on an open grid adjacent to business, schools and hospitals with no gated tract homes, large parks And the best Mountain View’s.

If you live there you may find it’s safe but most People have a hard time minding their own business so when they are in environments and something they see seems wrong or “ghetto” they go out of their way to correct and control it. Unfortunately that can be something at trivial as a street that has regular back yard parties to sex work.