"Central Square used to be like Boston," she says. "It used to have all the shops, the Harvard Bazaar, three bowling allies. It was a pleasure to go there."
She says she doesn't feel comfortable with the square late at night like she used to.
"Everything's drugs, everything's violence," she says.
But she says crime has decreased over the past few years.
According to CPD statistics, Cambridgeport is susceptible to auto thefts and robberies from homes and cars--consequences of being a dense residential neighborhood close to Central Square.
Like crime nationwide, theft in Cambridgeport has decreased significantly in the '90s compared to the '80s. And those three categories all decreased by double-digit percentages last year compared to 1998.
Like many people in Cambridge, Quayle says she's known people who have had to move out of her neighborhood.
"You can't live here unless you're really poor or going to be rich," she says.
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