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Old 05-20-2010, 08:42 PM
 
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Is it a safe suburb? Is it more blue collar or is it more middle class?
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Old 05-21-2010, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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I lived in Garden City for a couple of years, and much more of my life has been spent in it's neighboring city of Westland. GC is safe, better than Inkster but not as nice as say, Livonia. It doesn't have any decent restaurants or shopping, it is a very boring suburb in itself. I'd say more white than black, however many of the white kids I know there somehow think that they are black. As a whole I would say it is just very average, leaning towards blue collar but certainly not bottom of the barrel as far as crime or income is concerned.
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Old 05-21-2010, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Livonia,MI
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It's more blue collar. As the other poster said, it's nice, but not as nice as some of the surrounding areas. And it does beat the heck out of Inkster for sure.
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Old 05-21-2010, 12:39 PM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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Blue collar is not middle class?
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Old 05-21-2010, 12:51 PM
 
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Blue collar is not middle class?
I guess you can be both. I think many people might call blue collar towns more working class or lower middle class.
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Old 05-21-2010, 01:22 PM
 
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"Not being Inkster" doesn't make it good. LOL. That's like saying "Oh thank God it's only kidney failure! It's better than liver!" Garden city is too close to Inkster in my opinion, too much of that cities cess spills into GC. In the 80's GC was pretty decent, now.. well like I said.
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Old 05-21-2010, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Detroit suburbs
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Seems to me to be a basic, blue collar type bedroom community. It's a fairly small town with Ford Rd. having most of the commercial establishments and a lot of older neighborhoods with large, deep lots compared to the subdivisions of '50's ranches. When I was a kid people joked by calling it "Garbage City" but it seems kept up. The "downtown" area around Ford Rd. and Middlebelt has been spruced up a little so they're trying their best. The town museum is very nice if anyone ever has a chance to visit it. They even have rotating exhibits, which to me is kind of unusual for a small town museum.
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Old 05-21-2010, 05:35 PM
 
Location: On the brink of WWIII
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Is it a safe suburb? Is it more blue collar or is it more middle class?

I remember when "blue collar" was the middle class.

Can't believe I am agreeing with Grosse Ile??

Our daughters all live in Garden City (where they grew up) and really seem to like it there....so much so that we have been inable to getthem to be here with us??

So, is blue collar economically LOWER than middle class nowdays?
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Old 05-21-2010, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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I guess I consider blue collar to be lower middle class. But maybe I'm wrong?

Why in the world would they want to stay in GC, MI vs. NC? You can adopt me if you want, I'll come down there! ;-)
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Old 05-24-2010, 06:19 PM
 
Location: On the brink of WWIII
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I guess I consider blue collar to be lower middle class. But maybe I'm wrong?

Why in the world would they want to stay in GC, MI vs. NC? You can adopt me if you want, I'll come down there! ;-)

We ask the girls this everyday. But their paternal grandmother lives in GC and they think they would be abandoning her -- and she has even tried to get the girls to leave as well and have a life.

They have lots of friends in GC still and are nervous about change.

Dispite loving the place, as they lose employment (oldest just got laid-off) they may consider their options a little more seriously.

That is, if they wanna be with their "blue-collar" folks...
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