If this place is near the places you need to be, it is very safe and well furnished. There are bakery's, clinics, pharmacy's, grocery stores, and restaurants within a 2 minute walk. Athens is a highly populated area, so you get the street noises of a city as well as the smells of a city. I live on an acreage, not being use to any city smells, I was very sensitive to every smell. Lucas is very accommodating and quick to respond, please note if you pay him you will never see the money (hence the strict note on the app). We advanced him money for a visitor that ended up not staying with us, that was a mistake on our part.