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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
^ which has always been a little interesting to me because, as I understand it, Detroit's original "old money" burbs were the gross pointes, which lie to the east of the city, not the west.
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Yeah, the Pointes were kind of the original suburb. The cachet has faded quite a bit, but well into the 1990s, maybe early 2000s, if you had a lakefront estate in Grosse Pointe you were considered "old" money, or "real" money. Places like Bloomfield Hills were considered "new money".
There are a couple of nice middle-class neighborhoods on Detroit's east side, with good housing stock, but all of it is within 1-2 miles of the border of the Pointes, or within a mile of the east riverfront (or both).
For example. The west side has a much larger quantity of good single-family housing stock, but unlike the east side that housing was built far away from the riverfront.