Adrian Thompson |
11-07-2018 11:26 AM |
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Originally Posted by tabs
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BH is part of Birmingham right? Birwood drive....
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Interesting de-tour from he thread at hand. I believe Beverly Hills was originally part of Birmingham, but the houses were large and on more land. Sometime in the late 50's they voted themselves a separate community which later changed it's name to Beverly Hills. Then in the 70's people realized how awesome a real down town was. Birmingham then took off, property prices went through the roof, property tax went through the roof and the vast vast majority of the old houses were torn down and rebuilt 3-4-5 times their original size.
Today Beverly Hills is still part of Birmingham schools, library etc. but we officially a Village and we use Southfield township to collect our taxes etc. Southfield township is not part of Southfield and is only 0.2 Sq miles in area.
Whatever. The upshot is, we effectively live in Birmingham lite, have access to all Birmingham's facilities, live in smaller cheaper houses on larger lots than Birmingham residents yet pay a fraction of their property taxes and laugh at our good fortune.
Back to our regularly scheduled election back patting.
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