I was looking to buy a house for a couple years, looking in Wolseley, River Heights and South Osborne but everything was out of my price range. Drove through Point Douglas one day and fell in love, purchased a two story house with hardwoods, new roof, etc. for only 79,000 and I've never had a problem with it. In any other neighbourhood living across from a park is a perk but in Point Douglas I thought it would be a nightmare (being two blocks east of Main street). I was wrong, never had any problems, there's rarely ever people in the park, and when they are they are just walking their dogs or having picnics and I walk to Metro Meats all the time to get bacon (its thick cut and only 5.00 for 400 grams!). When I drive home from work, I see all the main street zombies and drunks and it really bums me out, but I guess they tend to keep to the west of main street. Basically, if your looking to buy an inexpensive house, the North End can be underrated but the prices in Point Douglas have already gone up since I purchased my house (avg price now 150,000 +). I spoke with a woman a while ago who purchased a house in Point Douglas, and picked up two more houses on her street that went up for sale, because they were cheap and her friends loved the area and she now rents them out. There's a retired cop thats chased out all of the crack dealers and you can call him if kids aren't going to school and stuff like that and he will go and see whats going on, pretty great neighbourhood, met more people living there in a year then I ever met in my apartment building in Osborne, and I feel safer walking my dog down in the park in the evening then I did in Osborne. I can walk to Jets games and the Exchange quickly. And when I see things like the Forks plan to utilize and develop land around the river, and the plans to move the tracks, I have great hope for the area, and can't see what it's going to be like in the next five years.