How safe is eastern english village?

**jcole** · April-23-14, 09:43 AM

Shirty is not a made up word:

English definition of “shirty”

shirty
annoyed or angry, especially in a rude way:Don't get shirty with me - this is your fault, not mine.adjective UK informal

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**sumas** · April-23-14, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by jcole

Shirty is not a made up word:

Thank you, interesting info.

**poobert** · April-23-14, 01:28 PM

I think 6 posts out of 81 in this thread were actually about East English Village.

**313WX** · April-23-14, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by poobert

I think 6 posts out of 81 in this thread were actually about East English Village.

To be fair, it's rare that a thread on DYES ever remains on topic aside from a handful of posts.

**poobert** · April-23-14, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by 313WX

To be fair, it's rare that a thread on DYES ever remains on topic aside from a handful of posts.

Yes but around 70 of the posts on this thread were Honky Tonk making fun of sumas' prescriptions or some bullshit.

**sumas** · April-23-14, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by 313WX

To be fair, it's rare that a thread on DYES ever remains on topic aside from a handful of posts.

I can stay on topic. EEV is a very nice community. Great community leadership. Nice housing stock. Three of my close relatives live there. Decent choices for schools both public and private. If I didn't love my home I would no doubt invest back into EEV.

**mam2009** · April-25-14, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by sumas

I can stay on topic. EEV is a very nice community. Great community leadership. Nice housing stock. Three of my close relatives live there. Decent choices for schools both public and private. If I didn't love my home I would no doubt invest back into EEV.

I like that sentiment.

Buy in Detroit! Buy in east side neighborhoods like EEV! Good, neighborly homeowners wanted!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...&v=5IAEcrfn7J8

**canuck** · April-26-14, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by mam2009

I like that sentiment.

Buy in Detroit! Buy in east side neighborhoods like EEV! Good, neighborly homeowners wanted!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...&v=5IAEcrfn7J8

One thing I noticed in the video was how low the arches in two of the houses were where the guy and girl were standing underneath them.

Either they were both very tall or else the ceilings and doorways pretty low, which is it?

No house for a Piston that's for damn sure.

Cute little homes though.

**antongast** · April-23-14, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by poobert

I think 6 posts out of 81 in this thread were actually about East English Village.

I'm sure the weird speculator dude who started the thread is extremely disappointed in us.

**poobert** · April-23-14, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by antongast

I'm sure the weird speculator dude who started the thread is extremely disappointed in us.

Then justice was served. International slumlords are no match for the inscrutable citizens of North America's democracies.

**softailrider** · April-26-14, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by poobert

Then justice was served. International slumlords are no match for the inscrutable citizens of North America's democracies.

I'm not sure about the international ones but professional landlords / property managers who know what they're doing usually get the last laugh. Not an easy job but they get their revenge at the tellers window when they deposit their checks.

**SWMAP** · April-23-14, 04:00 PM

Yes but around 70 of the posts on this thread were Honky Tonk making fun of sumas' prescriptions or some bullshit.Let's be fair to HT, who appears to valiantly try to stay on topic. HT never talked about his kids, his sister his inhalers, his Mother, his alma mater, his charming neighbors - not once.
I did a little survey and count that HT posted 10 times on this thread. In contrast, Sumas posted 22 times.
Sometimes its just not worth it after derail-ers get on. Some people are always worried about "trolls," and they should be worried about whether they are making substantive contributions or just rattling on about their personal lives.

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe discussion threads aren’t supposed to be about issues and topics.

**canuck** · April-23-14, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by SWMAP

Yes but around 70 of the posts on this thread were Honky Tonk making fun of sumas' prescriptions or some bullshit.Let's be fair to HT, who appears to valiantly try to stay on topic. HT never talked about his kids, his sister his inhalers, his Mother, his alma mater, his charming neighbors - not once.
I did a little survey and count that HT posted 10 times on this thread. In contrast, Sumas posted 22 times.
Sometimes its just not worth it after derail-ers get on. Some people are always worried about "trolls," and they should be worried about whether they are making substantive contributions or just rattling on about their personal lives.

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe discussion threads aren’t supposed to be about issues and topics.

Maybe the fact is she is close to the area, and cares about it more than many here helps to understand.

She is an older person as she often likes to remind us... for a reason.

I think talking about a neighborhood is a lot like talking about ourselves isnt it?

I also like that sumas isnt a 100% positive, but that she isnt submerged by the negative apsects of life in a tough nut like Detroit.

**canuck** · April-23-14, 10:06 PM

Besides, what is the point of reading and writing about a neighborhood, a city, a street; if it doesnt contain anecdotal evidence. I dont mind this, I relish it in fact. I mean really, let's not mistake these threads for Rocket Surgery.

**softailrider** · April-24-14, 01:06 PM

I think it's pretty simple. If personal safety and the safety of your family and home is of prime importance you probably shouldn't move to EEV or any neighborhood in Detroit except for Palmer Woods MAYBE.

If you want good city services and decent public schools for you property tax dollars you probably should buy elsewhere.

**rex** · May-31-14, 11:52 AM

EEV has some things going for it that other parts of town dont but I wouldnt call it safe. That interactive crime map they stopped updating will tell you in the last 2 years 18 people were shot and 5 were killed in EEV, could be more at this point. People have bars on their doors and windows for a reason over there. Property isnt safe, people breaking into houses probably realize EEV residents have a little more money than people in nearby neighborhoods. EEV would probably benefit from a mini station like they have in Balduck park and police foot patrols and community policing. That would be a good place for such a pilot program. I remember crossing the Whittier overpass at what i suppose is the far corner of EEV at just before dusk in like 04 and the police stopped me asking what i though i was doing. Suppose you could say i looked out of place for the area and they told me I wasn't safe out there like that. All i was doing was going to the liquor store on Harper.

**Danny** · May-31-14, 03:07 PM

Every last ghetto hood in Detroit is not safe these days.

It's not safe where I used to live in NW Detroit back in 1977 to 2005. So I move away. I've experience it from my two eyes. Some of you folks might have to agree with me and other D-YES forum members, too. They used to live their Detroit neighborhoods until the riff-raffs, gangbangers, welfare and food stamp folks and heroine-crack addicts came. Back then it was scare tactic to get middle class folks out of Detroit leaving the poor and meek stuck in their ghetto hood stupidity. Crime in Detroit is not going to disappear overnight or a couple years. It's going to take people and community action [[ not vigilante justice). to keep the riff-raffs out of your community.

It's safe for DEAD [[C) KRAK HEADS, gangs, folks wearing Trayvon Martins mutants.

All of Detroit is a ghetto, and the people are living in it.

Michigan is 'Mich-ississippi, and its burning!

WORD FROM THE STREET PROPHET

I will tell you all this:

Be logical and honest with yourself. America is become like INGSOC [[English Socialism) where Big Brother government is watching everyone through surveillance cameras even from your PC's to cell phones.

For Neda, George Stinney, Guy Fawkes, Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, 99 Percenters and Edward Snowden

**softailrider** · May-31-14, 08:05 PM

Security cameras, guard dogs, guns. If you want to se safe you need the whole nine yards to live in almost every area of the city. If you call that living.

**sumas** · June-01-14, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by softailrider

Security cameras, guard dogs, guns. If you want to se safe you need the whole nine yards to live in almost every area of the city. If you call that living.

Oh BFD, that describes most if not all of this country. Paranoid? Is it a race issue? My neighbors are black, most of my closest friends are black.

I live well thank you. I share community values that support our neighbors and children in need. My community is full of vibrant intelligent people. Sometimes we disagree, so what?

Yes I call it living. Issues come up, get resolved. We care about area kids and seniors. MYKIDs helped me plant Geraniums for a senior neighbor. Certainly Detroit has issues but nothing like you think you know from a distance.

My home is awesome, my neighbors great, area kids get serious help that need it..

I live in a community that pulls together, problems, absolutely worked through.

Know my area folks names for blocks, so where do you live? Can you claim the solidarity we have? Oops forgot we have no kind of life.