Quote Originally Posted by SammyS View Post
Huntington Woods, with its ~6,000 residents within about 1.5 sq. miles, is a good example of how you can make it work....and taxes are not that terrible. HW is ofcourse the exact opposite to HP in regard to income, education, demographics etc.
Huh? Huntington Woods an example? I don't get that in this context. Is the population of Highland Park to suddenly become upper-middle class like Huntington Woods? That would fix matters over night.

Calls for Highland Park to be annexed into Detroit exasperated me and my neighbors to no end during my decades there. We would say, "You want us to be taken over by broke-ass Detroit? Are you nuts? How about we get annexed by Grosse Pointe? We share a water system with them. Isn't that a start?"

Fact is no one has wanted to annex Highland Park. Ever.