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Old 10-16-2012, 10:13 AM
 
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I grew up in Dearborn and watched Fairlane decline. There is no debating that it is a dangerous place.
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Old 10-16-2012, 12:44 PM
 
Location: Detroit
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Meh, you feel that way about every place within a 25 mile radius of Detroit.
Exactly. I never met a person afraid to go to Fairlane with the fear that they would be mugged in the parking lot. Eastland Mall is more "dangerous" than Fairlane. I have been to much more scary shopping areas than Fairlane, (Warren & Conners for example).
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Old 10-16-2012, 07:55 PM
 
Location: north of Windsor, ON
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I've been told Macomb Mall may actually be more dangerous on the whole than Eastland. More gun crime at Eastland, but Macomb definitely is creepy nowadays. They were even keeping the lot lights off at night for a while. Most SE MI malls aren't all that safe- I have been followed in the parking lot at Somerset North and at the former Tel-12.
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Old 10-17-2012, 05:52 AM
 
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Exactly. I never met a person afraid to go to Fairlane with the fear that they would be mugged in the parking lot. Eastland Mall is more "dangerous" than Fairlane. I have been to much more scary shopping areas than Fairlane, (Warren & Conners for example).
It's a ghetto mall. If you like ghetto malls, then more power to ya.
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Old 10-17-2012, 08:17 AM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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I have been to Fairlane a few times. It seems like any other mall I have been to. I really do not see a vast difference between any of them with a few excpetions. Fairlane has more black people at it than most malls I have been to, maybe that is why some presume "ghetto" (People who use that term need an education in what a Ghetto really is). I have been told Fairlane is dangrous at night. Not sure about that having never been there at night, except one time we went to a movie there. We were the only white people in the theater and it was really fun. I do not know whether that is a cultural thing or just chance, but the people in the theater were a blast. THey did to just sit there all stiff and slient, just watching. They talked to the chacters all the way throught the movie, yelled things like "Oh no you don't go in there, oh no your don't!" Some people were having full on loud conversations with the people in the movie.

If that is normal, I want to go to movies with all balck people more often. It made the movie way more fun.
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Old 10-17-2012, 12:27 PM
 
Location: Detroit
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Ghetto= Too many black folks or black culture. So I'm guessing the mall down in Monroe or one in Windsor would be... Utopia???
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Old 10-17-2012, 01:01 PM
 
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Nah. More like run down, blighted, shady and attracts a lot of low-lifes.
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Old 10-17-2012, 04:14 PM
 
Location: north of Windsor, ON
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Ghetto= Too many black folks or black culture. So I'm guessing the mall down in Monroe or one in Windsor would be... Utopia???
Funny thing is, last time I went to Devonshire in Windsor, there were teenagers fighting...
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Old 10-17-2012, 04:36 PM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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I went to that Monroe mall once. It is funny. There is not much there and hardly any people. It hardly qualifies as a mall. I forgot about that one. That is also different from the "all malls are the same" comment. I am destroying my own generalization. I have eliminated Somerset, Monroe, and 12 oaks. How many are left?
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Old 10-17-2012, 08:09 PM
 
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The Mall of Monroe is practically on life support. The anchor spot that once housed JCPenney and then Steve and Barry's has been empty for years, Sears closed their anchor store there earlier this year leaving another huge, gaping, empty anchor spot, and the Elder Beerman just changed names to Carson's. Target is probably the main thing keeping this mall alive, and I have heard rumors of them wanting to leave the mall to build a free standing store on Telegraph Rd.
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