[Jeff Higgins]

Everett is a bit of a dichotomy. There are many beautiful, safe neighborhoods, but there are also some utter schitt holes with unlivable crime rates. One of the problems that some of the nicer neighborhoods face is the relatively small size of Everett proper - it makes it too easy sometimes for the riff raff of the bad neighborhoods to wander into the good ones. Having rented there for four years, I would hope she knows where the "battle lines" are drawn.

Having worked "in" Everett (really just south of it, at a large commercial airplane facility), many of my coworkers lived in Everett proper. The vast majority of them moved out as soon as they were financially able to do so, for the reason mentioned above. There are a lot of surrounding communities that are not a terrible (although not a great) commute into Everett. I would suspect that she is familiar with some of them, and has coworkers living in some of them as well. I would highly recommend she look into some of them.