16 Mile? (Detroit, Southfield, Royal Oak: crimes, university, statistics)

[BurtsBees]

Originally Posted by mjb68-19

Maybe so. You are living in the exclusive city - city? woods? park? farms? and I agree with you on the "borders" between the pointes and detroit - it's a shame - i wish Detroit would make a comeback - I was up in Michigan a few weeks ago and went downtown - its really looking beautiful down there.

You forgot shores

City, Park, Farms, Shores, Woods

[MonaLisaVito]

Originally Posted by BurtsBees

You forgot shores

City, Park, Farms, Shores, Woods

Damn!! I was trying to think of it and couldn't remember!!

[BurtsBees]

Oh, and the people who dont come south of Hall road annoy me. Seems like a totally different breed of people when I cross there. Snooty, stuck up attitudes.

[elmoslg]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

You poor innocent child. Run away. Push away from the computer and run like the wind while you still can! Don't become CD addicts like the rest of us! We have no life. We live inside of this forum and can't get out!

I'll show you what a rep is by giving you one.

i spent so much time browsing this forum i had to be hospitalized for exhaustion!
maybe it was the 5 kids that did me, either way - i'm back!

[Maxine3]

Quoted by BurtsBees

"Oh, and the people who dont come south of Hall road annoy me. Seems like a totally different breed of people when I cross there. Snooty, stuck up attitudes.

Oh really, FYI we are not snooty. We are afraid.
I was born (1937) and raised in a house in Northwest Detroit.
I haven't been passed the old place since 1981. We slowed down to observe the old neighborhood when a crowd started to gather on the corner.
Enough said....

[jrmontag]

Originally Posted by jeffncandace

I have recently seen some posts where the poster advises people that are moving here to stay north of 16 mile because anything south is too close to Detroit, and therefore already crime-ridden, or on the verge of being so.

yeah that logic is the most assanine thing I've heard today

[jeffncandace]

Originally Posted by jrmontag

yeah that logic is the most assanine thing I've heard today

Sadly, this "logic" passes for wisdom for some of the locals. Assanine is definately a more accurate word to descibe it.

[jrmontag]

It's amazing how Detroit has suddenly extended northwards another 8 miles. I must have been asleep for that.

[reconmark]

Originally Posted by Maxine3

Quoted by BurtsBees

"Oh, and the people who dont come south of Hall road annoy me. Seems like a totally different breed of people when I cross there. Snooty, stuck up attitudes.

Oh really, FYI we are not snooty. We are afraid.
I was born (1937) and raised in a house in Northwest Detroit.
I haven't been passed the old place since 1981. We slowed down to observe the old neighborhood when a crowd started to gather on the corner.
Enough said....

Sorry the sight of so many of "those people" frightened you.
Did they say or do anything to frighten you or just the sight of them was enough to send tremors down your spine.

People like you moved because of your perceptions, and what you were told about the mass influx of "those people".

I live around the corner from a white lady, she's about 70 or mid 70's; I see her out most mornings watering her grass or taking care of her garden.
Because of so many negative posts on this board, I asked her one morning why she did not move. She was somewhay taken aback by the question but she confided in me and said that her husband and son had both been police officers and they had more than enough guns to deal with any problems that any "new neighbors" may have brought their way.
After twenty years and no problems they decided to stay because the predictions going around during the 50's and 60's just never happened in her neighborhood. Their home wasen't looted, she wasen't robbed and/or raped and her son actually started to get along with his neighbors.

I have tried to get her to get on the internet, but she has said she wants nothing to do with these things and simply prefers to take care of her flowers.

[Maxine3]

"Sorry the sight of so many of "those people" frightened you.
Did they say or do anything to frighten you or just the sight of them was enough to send tremors down your spine.

People like you moved because of your perceptions, and what you were told about the mass influx of "those people"."

Did I mention "those people"? Touchy, aren't we?
FYI I moved out when I got married.
My family wasn't driven out until 1968. A year after the riots, as you might recall.
And, let's not forget the riots of 1947.