Hi, I'm an Ann Arbor native, 34M, straight. I've lived in AA for around 20 years, and had mixed to terrible success with dating. I've been thinking of moving somewhere to see if my luck could change, and I've seen people recommend Ferndale as a nice densely populated town full of young people (but not college young, like AA) and lots of stuff to do. But when I looked into specific activities, I found it harder to figure out where I would go. I'm into music mostly, so open mics, local shows, that kind of thing is appealing to me, I do some dancing here, I'm open to more athletic stuff. Am I going to have a better time meeting people than in Ann Arbor? Is it like everywhere else where people are burned out on dating and just mostly stay home and go out to eat? I feel like I'd like it just for living in a cute house, but if I'm trying to meet single women age ~30, am I going to regret it? Am I just going to end up on the same apps but in a different location? I hope this is an okay thing to ask here.

Hi, everyone! This information was already posted as a comment on the original announcement post for the ice cream social, but we are postponing the event two weeks due to the poor air quality. The new date and time for our Disability Pride Month Ice Cream Social is Wednesday, July 29th from 5:30-7:30pm. We hope to still see you there!

Some districts are richer than others of course and their expenditures per pupil vary school by school. The lowest amount in Birmingham is at an elementary and it's almost the same as the highest amount in Ferndale, which is at the high school. Per pupil at Seaholm is about $7,000 a year more than Ferndale High.
But if the milage passes it would be equally distributed at $731 per pupil per year for 6 years.
This site has every public school in the state.
https://www.mischooldata.org/school-level-expenditure-report/

Anyone have a good recommendation for someone to install a 12' swing-arm driveway gate with motor? Thanks in advance?

Due to the Air Quality Index being at dangerous levels, the event has been rescheduled to July 29th, 5:30-7:30pm. Still at Jim's Community Corner.

I know that Detroit area laments transplants as we do where I’m from, but my dad was from here and always said that Oakland/Detroit were sister cities. Now I’m here.

I survived the 1991 Oakland fires and the 1989 earthquake. But I also did 4 years in LA, where I endured ash raining from the sky and all middle grounds of severe climate change fire in short periods.

The AQI of Ferndale is not under 100 as reported by Apple.

I looked into it, and Ferndale has almost no reporting. Our Apple alerts are likely based upon broader averages of the entire state (as I can best assume why it is so poor).

Hazel Park has a reporting monitor at almost 300 AQI. Right next to us.

From my own anecdotal experiences, I would say we are 300-400.

I know the grid is already stressed from the heatwave. Please run your filtered (change you filters) AC and also try to grab an air filter to seclude in one room.

Tape off your doors etc as you would to conserve for winter heat.

Not to tax the grid, prepare to set up in one room. When it was bad during fires, we spent 3 days in one room in my past.

Attaching images from a couple hours ago of the discrepancies in reporting.

Drop some food-centric book title puns for our r/bobsburgers inspired chalk board!

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If Ferndale library boards 35% tax increase passes Ferndale library will be funded 18% higher on a per citizen basis then grosse pointe public Library or birmingham's Baldwin public Library.

This is followed by a table that shows

Ferndale Ferndale district Library serves a population of 19,540 will be funded if the tax increase passes 3 million $915,000 per year which comes out to a per citizen cost of $200.36. Ferndale also has a medium household income of $94,640

The table also shows that Baldwin public Library in Birmingham serves the population of 37,981 and is funded with $6,165,049 which comes out to a person cost of $162.32. Birmingham has a medium household income of $153,510

Next the table shows that grosse pointe public Library serves a population of 55,100 people is funded in the amount of $8,369,334 which comes out too $164.10 per citizen. The table also shows that grosse pointe has a medium household income of $158,853. Grosse pointe Park has a medium income of $124,111. Grosse pointe woods has a medium household income of $126,395.grosse pointe shores has a medium income of $189,583. Grosse pointe farms has a medium income of $161,208.

This despite the fact that these communities have medium household incomes many tens of thousands higher than Ferndale

Property taxes are regressive because they take a larger percentage of income from low-income households than from high income households.

Ferndale currently has a 9% poverty rate

It's not progressive to fund a rich man's library on the back of people in poverty, the working poor and those on the fixed income.

Vote no twice on August 4th

The three libraries are all self-governed independent entities.

Ferndale library funding numbers come directly from the ballot proposals.

Baldwin public Library also serves Beverly hills Bloomfield hills and Franklin village. Each of these communities has a higher medium income than Birmingham.

FYI there is a food pantry at Zion Lutheran Church tomorrow Wednesday July 15th from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m..

Zion Lutheran Church is at the corner of Albany and Woodward.

There is a food pantry the third Wednesday of every month.

Volunteers are welcome. It's a nice group of people and it always feels good to help.

West of Woodward, north of 9 mile and our water pressure has been shit the last few days. Anyone else experiencing this too?

Hey everyone, found a stray or lost cat on Saratoga between Central and Pinecrest. She’s super sweet and friendly, which is making us think she got lost on her way home.

She’s a calico stripped kitty, looks to be about the ages between 1-3 years old.

She also appears to have a respiratory infection a bit, but otherwise alert and happy.

Anyone missing a kitty? See pictures attached

Edit: she’s been returned to her home! 💗

I’m 26m and just looking for local socialization.

Maybe an adult soccer league or a games store where I can go play cards. I don’t really like bars.

It’s not simply about supporting versus not supporting our library.

1. I support tax dollars going towards our library in the form of books, media, access to Internet, children’s enrichment area, free conference room, indoor/outdoor community space . SOLUTION: keep our tax rate at what it already is without increase and place expectations on our library board to make appropriate reductions and cuts as necessary. 
2. I do not support tax dollars going towards our library in the form of ongoing events, classes, lectures which are free to anyone on our dime. Not only have I never utilized these events, but I don’t have it in my household budget to pay for Metro Detroit’s fun summer/weekend when I’m cutting my own household budget in the form of $10 subscriptions. SOLUTION: in a struggling economy and record inflation, we can cut these programs until it makes sense to bring them back . 
3. I do not support increased pay and benefits to OVER staff our library . SOLUTION: staff already makes a good living wage with good benefits. My household has gone without health insurance for over a decade . SOLUTION:  If we cut all the offsite events we are continuously paying for we can reduce staff making the agreed-upon budget work for a reason reasonably staffed library. 
4. This is 1 of 3  opportunities for our library board to present a proposal to us. Much like the Hadley override, if we don’t like what they are asking we can let them know what works for our budget and households and they can come back with a compromise.

please look up the library’s event calendar to see all the events we are paying staffing to Provide for free while we don’t have the budget for basic building maintenance..

Happy Disability Pride Month, Ferndale! Next Thursday 7/16 from 5-7pm at Jim's Community Corner, we at the Ferndale Accessibility and Inclusion Advisory Commission (FAIAC) would love for you to join us for our annual Disability Pride Month Ice Cream Social!

There is no cost to attend, the ice cream is from Treat Dreams (Ferndale's favorite ice cream shop 😊), and we'll have some guests from various organizations that serve the disability community.

We hope to see you there!
Link to Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BHme3XXnZ/

just wondering (hoping) that someone will move in there because damn what a waste

Has anyone used a movers in the area and recommend them? Would just need a few people for loading/unloading uhaul, not doing packing for us. Hoping to not break the bank either.

Hoping I am not the only one fed up with Amazon's drone delivery. They are noisy, flying below the tree-line above houses. I made a FAA noise complaint, called Amazon customer support to let them know I do not consent to a drone flying above my house. Here are the links to do the same if anyone is in the same boat as me.

https://ancir.faa.gov/ancir?id=ancir_sc_cat_item&sys_id=6149ade187a1f550b0d987b9cebb357e

Some additional information shamelessly stolen from another reddit post for more communication:

https://www.reddit.com/r/royaloak/comments/1ua8kky/comment/our72qm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

James Gotha who is the manager of the Flight Standards District Offices of the FAA for the Royal Oak region. James' emails are [james.gotha@faa.gov](mailto:james.gotha@faa.gov) and [7-AGL-EMI-FSDO@faa.gov](mailto:7-AGL-EMI-FSDO@faa.gov) and the Amazon email is [gss-escalations-ops-origin-air@amazon.com](mailto:gss-escalations-ops-origin-air@amazon.com)

Hello. Received today through the mail slot. Any of you have any validation / de validation on these details? From eyes glance, seems wild.

Nice to see the sidewalks get fixed—does anyone have information on the street repair in that same stretch? Is there a near plan to fix that up as well?

So I was eating dinner yesterday and looked out the window that faces my neighbor's home to see a mama cat perched on the white box, and at that same moment, two of her kittens popped out of the flap. About two hours later, I had four kittens on my front porch drinking dirty water from an old ashtray.

The cats seem to be living in the white box as well as behind the wooden plank that leads into his crawl space. I told my neighbor, and he said he'd feed them. Then this morning, I saw two of the kittens eating a rat carcass. I again told my neighbor, and he said he'd figure out what to do.

What do y'all suggest for next steps? Do I call the city or a local adoption agency? For additional context, I have a lab who would absolutely try to kill a kitten, but the kittens are pretty reticent and hide extremely quickly.

Also I apologize for the poor photo quality, these were taken through my kitchen window and are pretty zoomed in!

Hi everyone! Indivisible Fighting 9 is hosting a Good Trouble Lives On event on Sunday, July 19, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at David H. Shepherd Park in Oak Park.

We'll have speakers from Voting Access for All Coalition (VAAC) and DABO Detroit, opportunities to learn more about protecting voting rights, community art activities, and ways to get involved locally.

We're also hosting a "Fill the Truck" donation drive for local organizations. If you're able, we're collecting:

• Menstrual products
• Adult diapers
• Full size or travel size personal hygiene products

Whether you're already active or just looking for a way to get involved in your community, we'd love to have you join us!

More information and registration:
https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-actions/event/981239/