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Old 03-28-2008, 09:31 AM
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This argument seems silly to me. What difference does it make if the people committing crimes in Highland park are from other cities? It still has a terrible crime problem that other cities do not have. I would love to see a nice historic area like Highland Park revitalized, but lets nto try to mislead the O.P. into thinking that this is a good area to move to if you have other choices.

What I would like to see is a hundred or so middle/working class people get together and buy and entire neighborhood of HIghland Park and restore it. They can control crime with neighborhood watch and citizen patrols. However simply fixing broken windows, peeling paint and other decay does wonders for keeping the bad guys away. They do not want to go into "nice" neighborhoods becuase people there will call the police.

I lieve in a formely bad neighborhood in California and watched it transform into one of the places to be in the city. It never was perfect or crime free, but it did become desiraeable and sought after for people who wanted to live in and urban environment. Only ten years early, gang shootings were common in that neighborhood. From the time we moved there, it got better and better as people fixed up historic homes until it reached the point where the gang bangers considered it off limits, because people would call the police if they even walked into the neighborhood. Plus there were regualr citizen patrols in the eveings/nights until about 11 p.m.

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Old 03-30-2008, 11:20 PM
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No, Don't do it I know from past experience by witnessing a drive by shooting about four houses down from where I used to live it was said to be a drug house and my parents always told me not to hang out over there and to make matters worst my grandmother's house ended up burning down do to vandalism in the neighborhood so take my advice do not move there or anywhere close to highland park it's a spooky place to live!!!!!!!

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Old 07-22-2008, 01:47 PM
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Lol be very smart go ahead and move to highland park nobody will last long staying there cuz i just saw them building the brand new house and now it's abandoned!!!!!!!!!!!! Go see it yourself!

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Old 08-01-2008, 09:16 PM
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Highland Park is a tragedy. My aunt and uncle had one of the beautiful homes there on one of the last nice streets (Moss). It's unfortunate, but it's really not a good place to live right now. It started to undergo a renaissance about 10 years ago, but when everything else in Detroit tanked, HP tanked even further.

The other posters' suggestions of mid-town Detroit if you are childless (crappy schools), or a (better) inner ring town if you have kids. The Grosse Pointes, Ferndale, Royal Oak...

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