Researcher Extraordinaire

...or, rather, I'm just driving myself crazy.

Now I'm uncertain about the "safer" apartment I had decided on--North Pointe Commons--and would prefer to live in the Woodstone Apts. In addition to ApartmentRatings.com, I've also discovered the Duke Graduate/Professional Students' Apartment Ratings and the Durham Crime Mapper (I've been highlighting neighborhood crimes on an Excel grid I created).

Though North Pointe is gated, more crimes are committed there than in Woodstone, the highest rated community by grad students.

Unfortunately, Woodstone has very few one bedroom apartments, and even fewer of those are top-floor units. Though I would be the first one on the waiting list should my application be accepted, the chances of someone moving out are apparently pretty thin.

Sigh.