Quote Originally Posted by jackie5275 View Post
My husband lived there in the 80s & early 90s. He lived on Joann near St. Raymond's in the area near 8 Mile & Schoenerr. From what he described, it was a gradual decline in his neighborhood to where it was never going get any better. Gang activity was starting. He had his car broken into for the radio & wheels on different occasions. His car was finally stolen. He was mugged. Several of the neighbors were robbed. One elderly couple was robbed, bound, & gagged in their house and not found for over a day. This all happened over a period of a couple of years before he finally moved out to Lincoln Park in 1993. We got married later in the 90s. I moved in with him there. We moved out from there in 2002 when he noted he was seeing the same decline in that neighborhood that he had seen in Detroit. Of course, the dead body found in Council Point Park about 3 blocks from our house was the final incident.
Crime happens everywhere even when you live in Detroit or suburbs. You can move to a farmland and still your house gets robbed. Reason you and your husband move because you too don't want to get into fear with robberies and security is your concern before freedom.