I am a person that due to the real estate market over the last few years now lives in a “transitioning” neighborhood. In addition, I walk about a mile to work and part of that is past a local high school. I have to admit, with this type of attitude out there, I am beginning to have a fear of walking in my own neighborhood.
That is Obama’s America. An America where a middle class white veteran now fears walking in his own neighborhood. I have to admit, it IS change.
Do you want to come up an stay with us for the summer?
Another potato in the pot won’t kill us.
Thomas Jefferson
Redford, Westland, Dearborn Heights, Taylor, Belleville, and even Eastern Livonia and Farmington Hills are getting crushed in this market. I wouldn't buy east of Haggerty this days, nor near the airport.
If you have those fears you need to change your actions. You should move and you should not walk that route.
If you regularly walk the same route at the same time each day then someone has taken note, especially if you look different or out of place in that neighbourhood. You will be marked if trouble occurs. You will be zeroed-in on.
I would suggest you move out of that neighbourhood. People that you think are friendly to you there will either turn on you or abandon you as others come after you. Seriously, move.