Woodland Hills is okay crime wise. It's not like Arizona is some crime-free zone so you wouldn't be in for a huge shock if your car gets broken into. But unless you want to spend hours in freeway traffic you'll try to live as close as possible to the workplace of whomever in your family has the most steady job.
Clearly anything in production or acting is hit and miss and if you're lucky enough to be working you'll be driving all over anyway. But if your mother has a job on a series that might last for a year or two you should try to live near to where she needs to be.
Woodland hills is nice, but the traffic on the freeway to the studios is awful.
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