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A wealthy Michigan suburb who built FENCES across the streets to keep out Detroit 'have-nots'
Daily Mail ^ | 19 October 2014 | Sophie Jane Evans for MailOnline

Posted on 10/19/2014 1:18:08 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister

On one side, there are dilapidated houses, gardens overflowing with weeds and a high crime rate.

On the other, there are streets filled with spacious homes, well-manicured lawns and yoga studios.

This is one of numerous fences that have been erected by the wealthy 'haves' of the Michigan suburb of Grosse Pointe Park to 'prevent 'have-nots' from Detroit from driving into the city'.

The brick barrier, reading 'Road Ends', represents a significant divide between the two cities, which despite their proximity, differ greatly in terms of average salary, crime rates and general desirability.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: cities; detroit; economy; grossepoint; grossepointepark; houses; michigan; suburb; takersvmakers
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To: CorporateStepsister
Haves and have nots

more like law abiders and criminals

81 posted on 10/19/2014 4:30:03 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Faith Presses On

Sure, nearly everyone needs help at times in their life.

Have you made it a career? Are there three or four generations of your family which have never held a job or been off welfare?

I kinda doubt it. However that is exactly the situation we have with significant numbers of people in this country of both white and black skin colors.


82 posted on 10/19/2014 4:39:19 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

BTTT.


83 posted on 10/19/2014 4:41:56 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: CorporateStepsister

In Austin, the same phenom is present, just not so stark. Meaning, generally there is a tendency for people with means to “go west young man”............and that “generally” means as far west as possible but there are close in neighborhoods still holding value too. And, downtown Austin is a phenom all by itself with condos going for 1,200 psf or higher!

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, I think all large cities have their no go areas. I’ve been in or around this city for 60 years plus and there are areas I have NEVER been in and NEVER will. There also are whole subdivisions that have been quietly and quickly bulldozed. Nothing like Detroit in terms of scope but certainly the same underlying causes. And, no question that any objective analysis of the whole problem would conclude that the Democrats (liberals) hold on the so called “black community” is to blame.


84 posted on 10/19/2014 4:56:40 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Sherman Logan
I count 27 streets going from Detroit into GPP. With two of them “fenced off.”

Look bro, I have no intentions of getting into an argument with you over this blatant bullshit article from across the pond. Why?

Because number one, I know the area, my sister lives in the area, my niece lives in the area and I travel thru the area on a regular basis!

Nunber two, the only major streets which lead into the Pointes from Detroit proper are from the following, :

Jefferson Ave. which becomes Lake Shore Drive at around Moross.

Charlevoix which ends at approximately 7 mile rd.(Moross)

Kercheval which takes up where Charlevoix ends up.

Mack Ave

Harper Ave. which ends at approx. 9 mile rd. and mack Ave. takes over. None of which have been blocked off to prevent traffic from Detroit......

As for this bogus picture here, you think that maybe, just maybe the barrier was constructed because of freshly laid concrete?

This is the Lochmoor Country Club golf course located along Moross between Mack and Kercheval………

One only has to look at this picture to see that the wall has been in existence for years and there was never a thru street to begin with………


85 posted on 10/19/2014 4:57:33 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Negros...the other Obola.


86 posted on 10/19/2014 5:01:39 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: Hot Tabasco

I’m unclear why you think I’m trying to argue with you.

There are at least 25 streets by which one can drive from Detroit directly into GPP. Only two streets appear to have been fenced off, quite possibly for reasons other than keeping the riffraff out.

IOW, I agree it’s a BS article.

If you want an argument, you’ll need to argue with yourself.


87 posted on 10/19/2014 6:05:30 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: cripplecreek

That’s great news.


88 posted on 10/19/2014 6:12:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Is $101k/year average income considered wealthy there? They’ve got to be paying quite a bit in tax to sustain what is left..


89 posted on 10/19/2014 6:18:26 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

So? It’s a gated community. Not the only one in the world. What is this article trying to say, that the people in the gated community are evil and should allow in criminal low-lives? Why should they?


90 posted on 10/19/2014 7:20:19 PM PDT by Nea Wood (Even Heaven has a gate.)
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To: Nea Wood

Actually, it isn’t a gated community.


91 posted on 10/19/2014 8:00:42 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: CorporateStepsister

“Considering the crimes committed by upper class kids,...”

Yeah, the MSM scours the nation daily to find those half dozen or so cases a year of upper class white kids committing serious crimes. Then they drop everything to report on it for a month.

Even then, they will bury the story if it’s a rich white demonrat’s kid.

It’s big news because it’s so damn rare.


92 posted on 10/20/2014 7:55:46 AM PDT by Beagle8U (If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then shoplifters are undocumented customers.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Reminds me of “The Walking Dead”.


93 posted on 10/20/2014 8:25:39 AM PDT by Rum Tum Tugger
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