Originally Posted by
Bham1982
Hazel Park and Taylor have never been "middle class suburbs", at least not if you're defining middle class as "somewhere remotely around average income and home valuation."
They have always been less desirable towns. They're among the poorest suburbs in the metro area. Hazel Park was the Oakland County town best known for Appalachian whites and Native American migrants, and Taylor has an area of housing projects formerly known as Little Saigon [[and, no, it isn't a place to go for Vietnamese ethnic eats).
I don't doubt there are good areas too, but overall, not really reasonable to call these areas middle class, unless your point of reference is Brightmoor or something.