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To: LiveFree99; Brilliant
Dearborn also has dirt cheap housing, particularly compared to my area of the country. Greenfield Village is worth a visit. It helps to speak Arabic though.

As far as the schools are concerned, it doesn't seem like the place that produces national merits or Westinghouse winners.

60 posted on 01/16/2011 10:30:59 AM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Clemenza

I grew up about a mile from Greenfield Village. The schools were good when I was a kid. Relatively speaking, they are still pretty good. There are a lot more Arabs in the City than there were when I was a kid, but I would not call it an Arab city. When I was a kid, East Dearborn was heavily Arab. Since then a lot of the East Dearborn Arabs have earned a bit of money, and moved to the nicer West Dearborn. There were only a few Arabs in West Dearborn when I was a kid.

There were no black people at all in Dearborn when I was a kid. The mayor, Orville Hubbard, was a segregationist. Look him up on Wikipedia. He spent some time running the City from and living in Canada, where the Feds could not arrest him on corruption charges. Ultimately, the Feds dropped the charges and he moved back to Dearborn. Reading his bio gives you a sense of how different things were in those days.


61 posted on 01/16/2011 10:46:24 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Clemenza
Dearborn also has dirt cheap housing, particularly compared to my area of the country.

The whole area has dirt cheap housing right now.....if one is working enough hours long term to buy it and put down roots. Anywhere bordering Detroit is a bargain....if it can come back. Dearborn's in better shape than most areas bordering Detroit. Most of the inner right old working class and middle class white ethnic areas are now under 40K.

There's just few jobs here anymore.

77 posted on 01/17/2011 7:12:47 AM PST by Darren McCarty (We should lead ourselves instead of looking for leaders)
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