Quote Originally Posted by p69rrh51 View Post
You should be very proud of your lodge's efforts, but fund raising and population shifts are two different topics. Hermod is right. Hamtramck of course is a suburb [[even though we all like to lump it in with Detroit) takes its out of the Detroit equation, and Warren is going through some of the same population shifts that Detroit has been experiencing for the last 50 years support his statement.
Hahahaha. That statement contains a few of the most indefensible "qualifications" I've heard in a long time.

Yes, Hamtramck is a suburb. Even though it has been incorporated as a city for 90 years. And is completely embedded in the city. And is the densest "suburb" of any city in Michigan. Oh, but, technically, since it was formed as a suburb when the city was south of it, we're going to call it a suburb and point out how, therefore, by that tortured reasoning, it fits in with Hermod's statement, even though he meant the exact opposite thing.

And since Warren is going through some of the same population shift that Detroit has, we're not going to call Warren, Detroit's largest suburb, a suburb at all, thereby bringing it into line with Hermod's statement.

You have some great points there. Too bad you had to entirely derange their meaning and import in order to make them.