Well, overall Springfield is a pretty nice town. It has it's good areas and bad areas like most places, but it's pretty easy to tell where they are. The newer part of the city which is closer to Greenbrier where we are is pretty nice - alot of new buildings, alot of business's, streets are well lit, Super Walmart/Kroger, bout everything you could want is there. Then you cross the train tracks literally into the old city and it's mostly (but not all, still some nice areas and large, plantation houses around city hall and the library) your lower-income area or "the hood".
The Springfield PD is great, I'm good friends with the chief and one of their detectives. The crime isnt bad, alot lower than the majority of the area's around us like Goodlettsville and Davidson County.
There are alot of manufacturing jobs around here, Electrolux and Frigidair among them (unless Frig has changed into something else... shrug, never go to that part of town).
Plus, we're like 8 minutes down the road in Greenbrier!