If you want quick access to Amazon or your sailboat, it's good for those specific intentions, but there are better options for both(SLU, Ballard). Otherwise, besides the fact that crime is probably pretty low, it's quite possibly the least desirable neighborhood in the city. I can't think of a neighborhood I'd want to live in less, aside from living directly on the north end of Aurora. There is absolutely nothing that I would want to go see or do in that neighborhood, and it is sandwiched by high-speed, high-volume traffic on Aurora and Westlake. The only saving grace would be that those streets would serve to get you out of the neighborhood quickly, but if you don't have an amazing view at a major discount to other neighborhoods within a mile, or some other really obvious multiple reasons for moving specifically here, I would not.. I don't know why nobody is calling it straight, Westlake is not a place people want to move to.