Where will you be working? The trek from Armstrong to Winfield is...long.
We've got a house in Vernon being rented out and my mum lives in Coldstream
(outskirts on the Kelowna side of Vernon, nice rural area, relatively convenient to the highway if you need to drive that way
).
'Bad' neighbourhoods are anywhere right around the sewage treatment plan
(lots of low rent housing with less than stellar inhabitants at times
), as around both arenas
(they're both pretty low rent areas
). Some real nice subdivisions are out towards Coldstream
(just off Buchanan Road
) or up towards Silver Star
(ie Phoenix Estates
) and then out by Kin Beach
(ie Longacre Drive area off Okanagan Landing Road...well past the sewage treatment plant and by the lake - where our rental house is...which we're wanting to sell, btw!
), also Middleton Mountain area is nice. Most "in town" isn't fantastic. Out by Kal Lake is pretty nice, too
(the Vernon side of Coldstream
).
Lake Country has some nice areas
(Winfield is part of "Lake Country" now...that's the new muni name for Oyama, Winfield, and a couple other areas whose names I can't remember
)....and some not so awesome neighbourhoods. Off the highway
(North/West usually is better
).