  N7hn Member Username: N7hn Post Number: 89 Registered: 02-2008 |
Isnt harper woods really just detroit? I saw one of the home shows and they showed some houses in harper woods. I always just thought it was just part of detroit. Am I wrong? The show presented it well but i always thought it had the same troubles and problems as the BIG D. am i wrong and misled? | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 4832 Registered: 04-2005 |
Harper Woods has been an incorporated city since 1951 More info here | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 5495 Registered: 02-2005 |
While it looks a lot like neighboring NE Detroit, it's a different entity, thus it has its own government which is much better than Detroit's. Part of it (SE of 94, roughly) gets to be in the Grosse Pointe North district. Crime is more than GP but less than most of Detroit. | ||
Rj_spangler Member Username: Rj_spangler Post Number: 67 Registered: 10-2008 |
Exactly -- part of HW is in the GP school district which means they go to Poupard Elementary, Parcell's middle school and GP North. The rest go to HW schools that feed in Harper High, which was totally demolished and a new school was built in the last year. There are many lovely homes in HWs. A close friend of mine lived three blocks outside of HW's (in Detroit) and his home was getting broken into over and over. He moved three blocks inside HW and its been crime free ever since. This was move of 6 blocks. | ||
Maof2 Member Username: Maof2 Post Number: 1133 Registered: 06-2008 |
House Hunters on HGTV featured Harper Woods a couple of days ago. | ||
Haikoont Member Username: Haikoont Post Number: 41 Registered: 09-2008 |
Re: the schools, I heard about one single mother who dated too many men and dressed too risquely for the PTA's tastes. They sent a note home with her daughter (a middle school student) criticizing her parenting techniques. I guess the mom went to the next meeting and pointed out what a bunch of hypocrites they were, what with their own substance abuse problems and infidelities. I wouldn't put you on because it really did, it happened just this way. That day some mama socked it to the Harper Woods PTA. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 966 Registered: 02-2005 |
i just purchased a foreclosed home in HW, got an excellent deal, looking for 2 more | ||
N7hn Member Username: N7hn Post Number: 92 Registered: 02-2008 |
haikoont.... that was an 80's tv show..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H arper_Valley_PTA_(TV_series) lol. apparently under urban legend status now, go barbara eden.... maof2, yeah that was the show..... (Message edited by n7hn on November 29, 2008) | ||
Meaghansdad Member Username: Meaghansdad Post Number: 281 Registered: 07-2007 |
I live in Harper Woods, and my son goes to GP schools. Purchased a foreclosure a year ago, on a cul-de-sac. Crime free, no noise, very fast police response. Lived in Detroit before, (Whittier/Harper) Car broken into several times, house broken into, etc. Police takes hours to show. HW is close, but nothing like the D, in my opinion. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 9318 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: quote: Whew, good I'm not the only one. | ||
Qdaddy77 Member Username: Qdaddy77 Post Number: 167 Registered: 05-2007 |
when junk mail comes to our house, it sometimes says detroit instead of HW. the 48225 zip code crosses both cities i guess. our 343 phone exchange is also shared with detroit...it makes election time very interesting in our house. | ||
Rj_spangler Member Username: Rj_spangler Post Number: 69 Registered: 10-2008 |
Dig this Qdaddy77: I lived right outside of HW for 17 years, in Detroit. My zip code was 48236, the same as three of the Grosse Pointes. A small sliver of Detroit shares that zip code. I must say I did get some better junk mail than my pals that lived blocks away, also in the D, but there zip code is 48224. Often my mail came saying that I lived in GP, which wasn't true. |
