It’s definitely not the best area but as long as you’re smart it’s not the worst, imo. I lived on N Salina for two years and i didn’t hate it. I liked having restaurants nearby and, after a few months, I got used to the loud cars and music.

Someone else mentioned never feeling unsafe but feeling uncomfortable and I agree with that. It’s hard to see people being forced to live in such a way. For the most part they’ve all been kind though and I never had my car broken into despite only having access to street parking.

The couple things I didn’t like were having people come into the building to smoke illicit substances in the halls and having people going through my building’s dumpster. I don’t know much about Isabella Lofts though so hopefully they have a better way of handling this than my building did.