Good to know! Which areas of Tacoma are “safer”? I visited a few years ago but only to see friends that lived there at the time so I wasn’t able to get a good picture of the city aside from a few really cool places we visited

Brainbridge is beautiful but a little out of our price range for rentals unfortunately.

Would you say other areas are a little less “trumpy”? We were looking into Tacoma initially but heard that there’s some safety issues. Seattle is a little too much of a big city (+ out of price range) for our preferences but we’d like to live close enough to commute on occasion.

This is exactly the kind of first hand experience I want to hear! Folks that aren’t bipoc or lgbt they may have totally different experiences!