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Old 10-07-2010, 06:34 PM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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Yes, but my friends and family actually like me. I want to see them even if they do have an irreational fear of the city.
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Old 10-07-2010, 06:38 PM
 
Location: Huntington Woods, MI
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Yes, but my friends and family actually like me. I want to see them even if they do have an irreational fear of the city.

If they really liked me their response to coming over wouldn't be "It's all black there" I responded by saying I'm not going to Sterling Heights, It's all white so now we're at a stalemate. I made friends in my neighborhood that aren't fear mongers.
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Old 10-07-2010, 06:47 PM
 
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If someone will tell me how to post pictures here on CD, I'll go recon the B&E area bringing back pics.
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Old 10-07-2010, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Huntington Woods, MI
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Old 10-07-2010, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Friends and family won't come to Harper Woods. I told them to get lost. Couldn't be happier.
When residents there stop getting carjacked and robbed by 12 year old black kids, then maybe you'd get more to join you.
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Old 10-07-2010, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Michissippi
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You should read this article about a medical worker who thought it would be good to buy a house in Detroit (Boston-Edison, actually). Her home was broken into several times, she felt scared walking from her car to the front door, and eventually a burglar burned her house down and killed the large dog she had purchased for self defense. Now she's living in a condo in the low-crime but <gasp> almost all white West Bloomfield.

Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit - WSJ.com

If you purchase property in the City of Detroit or choose to rent there you are asking for it. Your best bet is to find a house in a predominantly white middle class neighborhood (just telling the objective truth here).

I have no idea what the accounting job market is like in Detroit, but if you have to ask then you probably shouldn't be moving to Detroit in the first place or should be looking to flee Michigan. If you are young and looking for a place to settle and build a life and career, Michigan is probably the wrong state.

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Ms. Barham just left. And she's not coming back.


In seven years as a homeowner in Detroit, she endured more than 10 burglaries and break-ins at her house and a nearby rental property she owned. Still, she defied friends' pleas to leave as she fortified her home with locks, bars, alarms and a dog.


Then, a week before Christmas, someone torched the house and destroyed almost everything she owned.
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Old 10-08-2010, 12:53 AM
 
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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You should read this article about a medical worker who thought it would be good to buy a house in Detroit (Boston-Edison, actually). Her home was broken into several times, she felt scared walking from her car to the front door, and eventually a burglar burned her house down and killed the large dog she had purchased for self defense. Now she's living in a condo in the low-crime but <gasp> almost all white West Bloomfield.

Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit - WSJ.com

If you purchase property in the City of Detroit or choose to rent there you are asking for it. Your best bet is to find a house in a predominantly white middle class neighborhood (just telling the objective truth here).

I have no idea what the accounting job market is like in Detroit, but if you have to ask then you probably shouldn't be moving to Detroit in the first place or should be looking to flee Michigan. If you are young and looking for a place to settle and build a life and career, Michigan is probably the wrong state.


people like you make me perfer, even more, to live around all black people smh. white people commit crimes, black people commit crimes, asians, hispanics etc smh
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Old 10-08-2010, 12:56 AM
 
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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When residents there stop getting carjacked and robbed by 12 year old black kids, then maybe you'd get more to join you.
hmm so if they were living in Warren getting carjacked by 12 yr old white kids, would it be any better?

whats funny is I recently almost got carjacked by a WHITE guy in brightmoor! smh

people need to stop judging by skin, its old and played out
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Old 10-08-2010, 01:38 AM
 
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SMH! SMH! For the love of Pete, detroitlove, please start using different expressions to convey your sense of frustration!

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Old 10-08-2010, 07:19 AM
 
Location: Huntington Woods, MI
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When residents there stop getting carjacked and robbed by 12 year old black kids, then maybe you'd get more to join you.

In 18 months it hasn't happened. Stay away from Eastland and your good.

Has any of your white, middle class neighborhoods netted you guys a 40% return on investment in the past 18 months?
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