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Not so safe, but it all depends where you live in the city and all that. Downtown / midtown is the best, anything else is hit or miss. Areas on Moross St. by Grosse point are just as nice as anywhere else. Also, even though Detroit is arguably the most dangerous city in the country, suburbs are very safe.
West Roxbury, Allston/Brighton and Dorchester top the list for safest neighborhoods in Boston. Safe is always a murky term since you can't quantify safety purely on the amount of crime in an area â however, a lot of renters who reach out to me asking about safety cite crime as the primary metric they're concerned about.