First of all, welcome to CP.
I currently live in McKenzie Lake and I'm hoping to be moving close to downtown soon, so I'm doing the opposite of what you are doing. Here's my 2 cents on this area of the city:
If you want to live in a more walkable community with decent-ish transit, Try looking for a place in McKenzie Towne. I actually quite like that neighbourhood and you'll probably find something very decent within your price range. It's a nice mix of new and old and has some great shops and restaurants all within walking distance. The BRT park and ride/future LRT is also located there. McKenzie Lake and Douglasdale are both great, older neighbourhoods. They are both your standard 80's/90's style communities, so not very walkable and crappy transit access. Choose McKenzie lake if you want lake access, Douglasdale if you want slightly better transit. Douglasglen has always seemed a bit "ghetto" to me, so I would avoid that, but admittedly, I don't know much about the area. New Brighton and Copperfield have always seemed a bit out of the way to me and seem to be almost impossible to get out of during the morning rush hour. Again, I don't know much about those two neighbourhoods, but they don't seem too bad and you can probably get a really good bang for your buck if you decide to live there.
Hope that helps Hocus Pocus.
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