Worst areas in Detroit (Wyoming, Highland Park: neighborhood, area code, dangerous)

[saraht]

Grosse Pointe is very close to Detroit and is very safe. There are a lot of housing options here in all price ranges. There are also a lot of very nice rentals. It is perfect if you want to live near the city and the lake. The streets and sidewalks are magically cleared when it snows. I am not kidding either. We lived on the West Side and the streets were rarely cleared. I haven't noticed one uncleared street in Grosse Pointe in 3 winters. They clear the sidewalks, too!! You have to do that yourself in most other areas.

[Detroitresident]

Originally Posted by cardwellave

Anyone? Anyone?

maybe there is disbelief about your location choice. Redford? Probably too close to actually living in Detroit for most folks. Not sure which school systems are involved.

[tod]

Originally Posted by mariatherese

all of it.

ha ha ha

i live there now- so i had to be the one to say it. its true. dont move there.

Will not all of the city. areas like the downtown and the northeast side are Still ok.But other places are a huge mess. Crime rate is like hell, and unemployment is going up. public schools are closing in Detroit and well... Anything else sucks here, so don't move here.

[tod]

Originally Posted by GAisGreat

Hamtramck and Highland Park are pretty safe...J/K

Not really


wow........ Not Highland Park. Let's just say that Highland Park... is not are good area to live in. Other wise Hamtramck is not really that safe.

[tod]

Originally Posted by flynncj

Hello,
Can anyone tell me which suburb of Detroit is the safest. I know Detroit is not very safe. How are the roads in both Detroit and the suburbs of Detroit? Please let me know. Does the Detroit Metro plow good in the winter? Is Sterling Heights, Utica, and Warren also safe area too?
Thanks!
Chris

hum..... let's see All the five Grosse pointes.

[tod]

What city do you think has the best schools?

[cardwellave]

Highland Park, Benton Harbor, Flint, Saginaw possibly...

[jeffncandace]

Originally Posted by Rohan

I live in Royal Oak and we are considering a move. The city is no longer family friendly, schools are closing left and right, and they can't even pass a millage to repair the carpet.

We're seriously considering leaving the state due to the horrid job outlook and massive unemployment. However if we do stay, I would choose Petosky Michigan over anywhere else - that place is coming up big. But the wife won't tolerate northern winters, so that is out.

Next on the list if we stay is Berkley, progressive, fantastic schools, still reasonable housing, SAFE (in fact much safer than even Royal Oak) and much more family oriented than Royal Oak will ever hope to be.

The people that seem to enjoy Royal Oak most are people that don't even live here, the people that live here want things different than they are, but nobody is listening. The result? Large scale family-flight out from the city.

I know this thread is old but felt the need to give an alternate opinion. I think maybe this depends on the neighborhood you are living in? I have 3 young children and live in Royal Oak and we absolutely love it. We live near 12 Mile and Rochester Rd, near Red Run. It feels very safe here and we love our neighborhood and neighbors. We have everything from the young gay guy who lives behind us, to the single professional woman in her 40's who lives beside us to the family with small kids living on the other side of us. It seems very close-knit here and vibrant.
I suppose if I lived near 11 and Main it might be different...
Just saying that RO is diverse and has all sorts of different neighborhoods and people!

[Cato the Elder]

I am a resident of RO and I would have to agree with the previous poster. When we were house hunting last summer, we pretty much had the choice to move anywhere in Metro Detroit as we had just sold a house in San Francisco and two houses in Philadelphia not too long before that; we chose RO over places like Birmingham, Huntingdon Woods, Berkley and Pleasant Ridge. As mentioned, RO is a diverse area of many neighborhoods. We live near 14 Mile and Woodward so we have the advantages of living close to Birmingham without paying quadruple the property tax. The RO school district is in flux as it closed down one high school and made it into a middle school. The district isn't in the elite group with Birmingham and Grosse Pointe, but it's more socio-economically diverse and not that much worse. It's surely closer to this group in quality than it is to the Detroit schools.

I don't get the whole Berkley-is-so-much-better-than-RO attitude. The schools, political persuasion, and family life are similar to RO. Yes, there are areas in downtown that are more commercially driven, but that's on TOP of the great neighborhoods like the one we live in. FWIW, we chose RO over Berkley b/c we liked the housing stock better. Berkley is largely smaller, slab houses built postwar over former swampland. We also liked downtown RO over Birmingham and Ferndale with Berkley not really in the same league as these three. Overall though, these towns along Woodward are pretty much all nice places to raise families with slightly different feels to them. Not one is best for everyone but the good news is that there is a choice.

[jeffncandace]

Originally Posted by Cato the Elder

I am a resident of RO and I would have to agree with the previous poster. When we were house hunting last summer, we pretty much had the choice to move anywhere in Metro Detroit as we had just sold a house in San Francisco and two houses in Philadelphia not too long before that; we chose RO over places like Birmingham, Huntingdon Woods, Berkley and Pleasant Ridge. As mentioned, RO is a diverse area of many neighborhoods. We live near 14 Mile and Woodward so we have the advantages of living close to Birmingham without paying quadruple the property tax. The RO school district is in flux as it closed down one high school and made it into a middle school. The district isn't in the elite group with Birmingham and Grosse Pointe, but it's more socio-economically diverse and not that much worse. It's surely closer to this group in quality than it is to the Detroit schools.

I don't get the whole Berkley-is-so-much-better-than-RO attitude. The schools, political persuasion, and family life are similar to RO. Yes, there are areas in downtown that are more commercially driven, but that's on TOP of the great neighborhoods like the one we live in. FWIW, we chose RO over Berkley b/c we liked the housing stock better. Berkley is largely smaller, slab houses built postwar over former swampland. We also liked downtown RO over Birmingham and Ferndale with Berkley not really in the same league as these three. Overall though, these towns along Woodward are pretty much all nice places to raise families with slightly different feels to them. Not one is best for everyone but the good news is that there is a choice.

Couldn't have said it better Cato...we are of like minds, the more I read your posts!