The flat and quiet streets along Sequoia Parkway in the Hollywood Park subdivision are home to many first-time buyers. Some stay and some move on in this transitional area, conveniently close to highway access ramps and the commercial strip along Maple and Stadium. Multifamily housing is available at the Arbor Landings apartments on Dexter west of Maple.

M-14 divides the Abbot area. West of the highway along Dexter Road, the city sewer lines come to an end as rural residential development carpets onetime farmland between Wagner and Zeeb roads. The area has some of the most affordable housing in Ann Arbor, with small starter homes, perfect for young professionals and families, mingling with larger ranch-style homes on lots big enough to require a riding lawn mower. Representing the economic extremes are Walnut Ridge, a 1990s-vintage executive subdivision at Miller and M-14, and Scio Farms Estates, a 900-unit manufactured-home community off Jackson Road.

Abbot schoolchildren graduate to Forsythe Middle School and Pioneer High. However, Forsythe grads will begin attending the new high school after it opens in the fall of 2008.