PULLMAN, Wash. Pullman’s Sunnyside Hill neighborhood is the fourth best college-town neighborhood for adults in the United States, according to the popular real estate website on MSN.com. The site picked its top-10 neighborhoods close to major universities where “nights are calm and porches are free of tattered sofas.”
Specifically, the list was based on FBI crime rates among towns where the population was fewer than 100,000 people. Pullman fit both categories well: it has a population of fewer than 30,000 people and is safer than 87 percent of the neighborhoods in the country. Washington State University has long stood as one of the safest campuses on the West Coast.
“It’s quiet up there,” Pullman resident Angela Corwin, an administrator at Re/Max Home and Land in Pullman, is quoted as saying. “I face south and can look out toward the Blue Mountains and all the gorgeous farmland below. When the wheat comes up, it’s green, and during the fall harvest, it’s gold. You also can see a lot of really nice cloud formations from that elevation. It’s a real serene spot.”
The real estate site describes the Sunnyside Hill neighborhood in Pullman as having many newer homes and notable views. The area also boasts Sunnyside Park, a 25-acre parcel containing a gazebo, community gardens, willow trees, trails and a brook that links two ponds.
The neighborhood sits just a few miles west of the WSU campus.
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