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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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Old 02-21-2009, 08:13 PM
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I would never advise anyone to live in Highland Park. I lived there for a year back in 1972 and got out the minute my lease was up. My building was nice, it was less than a block from Woodward...and on a park. But the night a woman was murdered right outside my kitchen window was the end of it for me. Oh, yes, the guys that broke into our building, stole the leaded glass windows in the lobby and were shooting their way down the hall I lived on didn't help either. Trust me, it has NOT improved!
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Old 08-17-2009, 10:10 PM
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Jee-bus!
I don't want to sound rude, but....Highland Park? Over Detroit?
For everyone's information, HP is a suburb. This is exactly what that little suburb looks like.

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Old 08-18-2009, 08:10 AM
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I realize most of the posts in this thread are old, BUT...

So the argument seems to be over whether the abundance of crimes are committed by HP residents or "outsiders" but nobody seems to have raised the question: DOES IT MATTER??? If there are still tons of crimes being committed IN Highland Park, that still makes it a crime-ridden place to live! When you get mugged, do you really care what city the mugger lives in? If I get robbed in Highland Park but the robber is from Birmingham, does that make Birmingham the REALLY dangerous city - the place where I DIDN'T get robbed?

Stoopid.
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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!
That's probably because they lost their jobs or something, not because the house was being built in Highland Park, for crying out loud.

It's not a pretty neighborhood lately but it has all the potential in the world. And the real estate there is going at fire-sale prices. If you are the fixer-upper type, by all means move there. They need you!
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and the.... You missed the whole point! I've worked for the HP Police Dept. Why not take a trip to the station and discover for yourself where most of the offenders actually "live". Sit and watch who visit the local porn shop and follow them home, better yet inquire who owns the place. And since you only mention sex-offenders, have you ever thought about the fact that just maybe the sex-offender in your "perfect" suburb hasn't been caught......yet. If you've never lived or worked in Highland Park your opinion is really distorted. Further more, the writer is moving from Cincinnati to work in Downtown Detroit. If given the choice between Highland Park and Detroit, the person is much better off in Highland Park. Just remember one thing - its called "robbery" in the city and "embezzlement" in the suburb.
Marcia, just let me say this. In the avalanche of hateful, negative, hopeless, racist posts I see on this forum on almost a daily basis, this was a real ray of sunshine. You rock!
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Highland Park is also home to drug dealers and drug users who last resided in places such as, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing, Novi etc.( I have them as clients).
Sure, right. All the junkies and dealers in Highland Park are just visiting from Bloomfield Hills. This makes complete sense!
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Highland Park also has some of the nicest people you ever want to meet living here. From all sorts of backgrounds and of many races ( a melting pot if you will).
Yes, what a diverse city! Only 97% African American according to the most recent Census estimates. Like a mini-United Nations!
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The point is no matter where you live there will be problems of one kind or another.
Uh, yeah, but you will have 100 times the chances of those problems affecting in you in some locations relative to other locations.

Yes, there are thieves in Bloomfield Hills, but you have 100 times the chance of suffering theft in Highland Park. This is (in part) why Highland Park has lost 80% of its population and is almost completely vacant.
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