Apartments, West Hill in Kent? (neighborhood, to live, price)

[snyder.101]

Hello all.
Am new to forums in general, so please bare with me.
The hubby has a job offer in Kent, Wa. We presently live in the heartland. However, I did spend quite a bit of my youth in Kent. I actually consider myself "from " Kent, even though I really know nothing about it!
I have been doing some research, and the apartments seem sky high! Ideally we get a 2/2 under $1000 in a nice neighborhood.
I remembered that as a child, then again as a teen we lived on west hill. The Brentwood apartments. I also spent alot of time next door at Swiss Gables. I checked, and they both seem reasonably priced. ..is the neighborhood cruddy? It's a 7 minute commute to work for the hubby, so that's good. .
Any ideas, suggestions, advice?
Thanks so much!

[Chris Meyers]

That area has gotten very very seedy, like all of kent. I grew up in that area too, it is really nothing like it was. The demographics are very different. Just be careful and safe if you decide to live there

[pnwguy2]

west hill, I assume is the area near Sea-Tac, the city. Which is kind of awful. The further east you go the better.

[Plenus]

Did you folks move yet? If so...where did you decide to live? I really don't know of any decent apartments on the west side of Kent. I'm not real familiar with apartments on that side since I live on the east side. But....plenty of them exist. The bad thing is that MUCH of Kent has really become very nasty in terms of cleanliness and a lack of nice, decent, people.
I'll be moving far away from this area and won't mind a longer commute to finally distance myself from Kent.