Author Topic: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?  (Read 197 times)

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Re: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?
« Reply #1 on: Today at 06:32:58 AM »
Decent, not super great. VERY Islamic (for years) but middle class (ish). Household income in Michigan overall $71,000.  Dearborn household income $65,000. Been a while since I drove through. City of Detroit $39,000 (low low) as a yardstick.

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Re: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?
« Reply #2 on: Today at 07:05:32 AM »
Decent, not super great. VERY Islamic (for years) but middle class (ish). Household income in Michigan overall $71,000.  Dearborn household income $65,000. Been a while since I drove through. City of Detroit $39,000 (low low) as a yardstick.

World wide headquarters of Ford

Checking the clip above, any opinions?

That a regular occasion?
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Re: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?
« Reply #3 on: Today at 07:23:11 AM »
Checking the clip above, any opinions?

That a regular occasion?

Could not watch the clip, my own neighborhood has elements of that and “From the River to the Sea” offends me. For its Islamic population, Dearborn has a lot more countries of origin than my area which has smaller Islamic concentration but mostly Jordanian/Palestinian. It’s a huge mix within that group, lots of professional people and small business owners and for example, young girls working in the stores wearing their head scarves, usually very nice and very assimilated with English just like everyone else’s, but I passed an Islamic food pantry near my gym yesterday and cars were lined up for blocks, so there must be a fair amount of poverty which is hard to see because these are neighborhoods of nice homes (like Dearborn). Our Islamic areas are not ghetto like at all (like in France), but there are lots of viewpoints like I am sure in your video, which may be understandable but to me are anti-semitic, for years not just Gaza.

Our Gaza demonstrations have been downtown and on college campuses, not in the suburbs so much. So the clip is not a regular occasion here.

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Re: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?
« Reply #4 on: Today at 08:13:28 AM »
I used to live there. I still have an elderly relative that still does live there.

I remember back in 01, the arabs celebrating wildly when the towers came down.

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Re: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?
« Reply #5 on: Today at 08:14:46 AM »
Wasn't Dearborn pretty affluent many decades ago?

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Re: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?
« Reply #6 on: Today at 08:25:09 AM »
Ford still manufactures LOTS of vehicles in Dearborn (Ford Truck and Ford Engine plants and lots still going on at Rouge plant). But no Ford executive would live in Dearborn these days.

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Re: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?
« Reply #7 on: Today at 09:22:02 AM »
Isn't AbrahamG from there? I heard he runs the local Muslim charity - Hamas something or other

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Re: Anyone in Dearborn, Michigan here?
« Reply #8 on: Today at 10:16:20 AM »
I used to live there. I still have an elderly relative that still does live there.

I remember back in 01, the arabs celebrating wildly when the towers came down.

That bullshit aside, it's still a very good and safe place to live. Largely because of the middle eastern population.