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From: New Orleans
Says the guy from Louisiana. :loco:
As the goob said, Warren and Sterling Heights are really not that bad. Actually, lets compare them to where you live. For laughs.
The crime rate in Hammond, LA is 6.5 times higher than Sterling Heights:
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...-Michigan.html
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...Louisiana.html
And 3 times higher than Warren (If you look at crime maps, most of that happens south of 696, as I mentioned before):
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...-Michigan.html
Average income is 65% higher in Sterling Heights than Hammond:
http://www.city-data.com/city/Sterli...-Michigan.html
http://www.city-data.com/city/Hammond-Louisiana.html
Household income is 39% higher in Warren than Hammond:
http://www.city-data.com/city/Warren-Michigan.html
And now, we return to your regularly scheduled 'oooh Detwoit skurrrry warzone Somalia oooh' programming. :uhhok:
As the goob said, Warren and Sterling Heights are really not that bad. Actually, lets compare them to where you live. For laughs.
The crime rate in Hammond, LA is 6.5 times higher than Sterling Heights:
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...-Michigan.html
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...Louisiana.html
And 3 times higher than Warren (If you look at crime maps, most of that happens south of 696, as I mentioned before):
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...-Michigan.html
Average income is 65% higher in Sterling Heights than Hammond:
http://www.city-data.com/city/Sterli...-Michigan.html
http://www.city-data.com/city/Hammond-Louisiana.html
Household income is 39% higher in Warren than Hammond:
http://www.city-data.com/city/Warren-Michigan.html
And now, we return to your regularly scheduled 'oooh Detwoit skurrrry warzone Somalia oooh' programming. :uhhok:
Mandeville's crime rate is only double that of Sterling Heights, and about 1/3rd lower than Warren.
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...Louisiana.html
The point is, though, is not the numbers. It's that the impression of the entire Detroit Metro as a crime-ridden ghetto is 1) not true, and 2) means you can get a house on the cheap. If I knew someone in the Sterling Heights / Warren area who could serve as a property manager for me, I'd have long since bought 3 or 4 houses and started renting them.
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...Louisiana.html
The point is, though, is not the numbers. It's that the impression of the entire Detroit Metro as a crime-ridden ghetto is 1) not true, and 2) means you can get a house on the cheap. If I knew someone in the Sterling Heights / Warren area who could serve as a property manager for me, I'd have long since bought 3 or 4 houses and started renting them.
Listen, I don't know why this turned into a pissing match. Your first mistake was assuming that when I said "There's a reason houses in MI are cheap" meant that I didn't think the same principle applied to Louisiana. Frankly, I couldn't care less what the crime rate is in a place I'll never live.
But my statement stands. There certainly is a reason, or a handful of reasons why one can score a house for cheap in MI (and some parts of LA) in respect fo California. Do you think they build houses at a lower level of quality everywhere in the US compared to California? Of course not. That's all I was saying. :no: