I live on Meadow Land Drive and we have an exterminator come once a month and we have no problems. We did however have problems with wolf spiders and crickets when the house next door sat empty for a year, so we bumped up the service to once a month and its perfect now.
As for the crime our experience in the last three and a half years has been maybe a car or two being broken into. I have been concerned though with all the forclosures on our street and no lights on outside.
Overall we love our home, our neighbor's, that have stuck around and our community.