<p>spacygirl - We’d love to know your decision 
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<p>We enjoyed hanging in downtown Ithaca for dinner with the kids. But that was about 8 years ago, and it was summer so still daylight. So I can’t make a current schoolyear, night safety judgement. Certainly there were city schools (Case, CMU, Northeastern) that worried us at first, but we kept them on the list.</p>