"By the way, if you're interested in exploring affordable living options in Indiana, be sure to check out the article '6 Cheapest Places to Live in Indiana: Affordable Living Options' for more insights!" www.ushistorians.com/cheapest-places-to-live-in-indiana/
My family on my father side is from southern Indiana, And I've been living here the last 25 years ... I cannot tell you a finer place to live. In the little town of Winslow, you can buy a livable house for a little is $12,000 Are you can buy a nice home for around $100,000 really nice . These little places are awesome to live. Nobody knows they're there, and nobody bothers you. In very small community of 600 people you know who the troublemakers are . We do have a town called Jasper, and while it is a very nice place to live. The people are very snooty and full of themselves. You can tell this when you see one of their school buses drive by , And on the side of it, it says the greater DUBOIS school district. Well, my favorite place to live was definitely northern Lake Tahoe incline Village area. Bang for the buck little town I live in is extremely affordable and you can actually pay your house off in just a few years.... I paid $40,000 for my house just 20 years ago three-bedroom attached garage on 1.75 acres. As I said, it's very affordable.
I've traveled and worked all over southern Indiana Jasper included. But I've also traveled and worked throughout the US. There are lots of small towns and villages that are great places to live.
As someone who grew up in Indaina, I miss it, but they have not done much to better my hometown. #1 on this list has always been the most expensive to live in. No surprise there, Greenwood was a little.... but for peace and quiet, I would easily choose Bloomington over Greenwood. You start traving to Soutport area... have fun lol
S.Bend,raised Penn Township,s.e.of Mishawaka,…lived ;G.Rap.,Kal.,&13 yrs. In Houston,……this area has N. Dame ,sports,ect.,but is “handy” to;Chicago,Detroit,Indianapolis & lake Michigan for beaches,boating,fishing ! !
Although the Indianapolis area has a lot to offer, there are also many other more affordable places to live in Indiana. For example, Terre Haute also offers beauriful public parks, art displays, museums, fishing, several universities, restaurants, entertainment, and even a casino. Rents are cheaper than the Indianapolis area, even for seniors. Terre Haute has affordable public transportation and provides ADA door to door services to those who need it. Terre Haute is a city, but retains many rural elements. Bloomington Indiana is also affordable and has
I live in jasper Indiana. Funny how you concentrate your time on the Indianapolis area. I live rural. The city is nice too visit but at the end of the day I will go back to rural south west Indiana.
I was born and and raised in Bloomington...its a shithole now. I moved 25 years ago to Petersburg (not much better, but better than Bloomington) I worked for Kimball Electronics in Jasper at that time (pre-9/11) and I LOVED that town! Some of the best German restaurants, decent QOL there...but that was over 25 years ago. Not sure what its like now. Hopefully not like Bloomington with drug and crime and the homless sleeping everywhere, even in restaurants! Its a shame, but they allowed IU to completely own that town and now theres nothing of historical value there anymore. Just TONS of 10 story high rise apartments for the students, nothing catered to the working man or woman, just students.
Ft. Wayne, or Columbus, Indiana should have been a head of Muncie, Indiana. Although Muncie would have made an excellent #9 pick, being they have Ball State University and the 62 mile Cardinal Trail
@@ladesigner8764 That's why Columbus is such a great place to live. Let's see, morals, ethics, not judgemental people. Oh yeah, and God loving Christian and Jewish people. All the things your children should have, including freedom.
@@m.e.5482 If you're thinking of moving to Indiana, especially from a fairly large city elsewhere, Fort Wayne should probably be near the top of your list of prospective places to live. This seems like a promotional piece for some outfit that builds houses in the suburbs of Indianapolis. No mention of Fort Wayne or South Bend, seems pretty silly to me...
Bloomington has a 10 foot fence around the downtown post office to keep the homeless out of the parking lot! Watch out for discarded needles in the city parks.
What's the most similar thing about Indiana to TV show The Middle? I would like to live in a similar town and a similar house. Which city is better to choose then?
If you’re aiming for a place like The Middle, I’d say check out Columbus or Greenfield in Indiana. They’ve got that true small-town vibe with friendly folks and a laid-back lifestyle, just like Orson in the show. You’ll find plenty of modest houses and neighborhoods that feel like they came straight from the show, with that cozy, middle-class charm.
Anyone that puts Noblesville, Carmel, Fisher (north of Indy suburbs) on their list is obviously not from Indiana, or lives there... They're only really affordable to for rich.
Columbus didn’t make this list? It is one of the most architecturally important cities in the U.S. People travel from all over the world to see its modernist architecture. The I.U. Architectural Masters program is headquartered in Columbus. It has been written about in National Geographic. Cummins Engine is headquartered here. The movie “Columbus” starring John Cho was filmed here. In 2005, GQ magazine listed it as one of 62 reasons to love your country. It’s a treasure hiding in plain sight in the cornfields.
I would not even consider moving within 50 miles of Indianapolis, unless you have a specific need to be there. Or, if you like continuous urban sprawl,cookie cutter homes, and suburbs for the suburbs, you will like it. As for me, I like the Lafayette area and rural areas.
I'm biased, but any of Lafayette, Monticello, Delphi, Rensselaer, or the small towns around them are better places to live than Greenwood at a minimum. You just named suburbs of Indy plus a couple slightly further "suburbs".
The graphic overlays really need some work. I like the orange/yellow graphic for home value and rental prices, but they weren't always present. While that's a nice graphic, the font and fade-in / fade-out for things like Conner Prairie in Fishers was really amateurish. And there were so many missed opportunities for infographics. Every time a population was mentioned, it should be on the screen. Several times, I heard "a number of tech companies", but none were named. Finally, when describing where a city is, it'd be great to see a map of the state, and a little dot showing us visually, where the city is located. Describing it is too vague. And Carmel is not IN THE north of Indianapolis. That's saying it's part of Indianapolis, but on the north side. Carmel IS north of Indianapolis. It's completely separate. It's a different county altogether. I appreciate the attempt, but this was rather poorly done.
This video would be more accurately re-titled "Moving to Indiana - 8 Best Places to Live in CENTRAL Indiana". Muncie and Bloomington are about an hour's drive to Downtown Indianapolis and all the other so-called "cities" in this video are actual SUBURBS of Indianapolis. They are not the best cities that Indiana has to offer. Far from it. They are not even the best that Central Indiana has to offer. West Lafayette and Columbus should most definitely be in the Top 8, replace Westfield and Noblesville.
Back home again in Indiana, Blackford, county. Moved here last Sept. 2023 from S.w. Ohio. Not much travel distance but a totally different living experience.
Are you not aware of Michigan City Indiana on the shore of Lake Michigan, with a fabulous beach…view of Chicago skyline on a clear day…low crime, great people and affordable housing…well not beach houses ❤️
@@MrTonyPiscatelle Cool. Born and raised central Washington in agriculture and my family sold the farms and business out from under us so if I'm not tied to this horrible state anymore we're thinking of moving out to my wife's family around Muncie area who have a farm and maybe starting something.
Stay away from Indy and cities around indy. Full of murders and crime. Do your research before even visiting. Small towns are your best bet. I'm in muncie and it's a decent town but still has crime. Occasional murder, shots fired in the ghettos and south side of town. Aside from that its decent.
The only place you should go in Indiana is Indianapolis, Spencer, or Greenfield it’s wild how they demonetize us from being where we’re from but in the 18-1900s wasn’t nothing here but old country folks
All this video talks about is cities around Indianapolis. There are some great cities in the northern part of the state ( like Valparaiso) but they are never mentioned.
Carmel really is boring, no places to shop, really is a city that only looks nice and does have places to eat and drink and that is it, everything else you need to leave Carmel. Fishers is nice and is on the border with Hamilton Town Center. I would say Fishers is #1.
As someone living in Indiana I'll give you my little take on it good and bad. So yes, cost of living here is very cheap compared to most of the country. In the cities obviously you'll find more middle of the pack kind of cost of living but still very affordable. But the cities here are very very boring in my honest opinion. Indy is cool but there's just not much to do anywhere else in this state unless you live by Lake Michigan. Southern Indiana does have a considerable amount of caves though and a lot more rolling hills and forest / woodland. Here in Northern Indiana it's extremely flat and has these massive stretches of endless fields of corn which is beautiful in certain regards, but also pretty boring. And the only plus I consider to living in Northern Indiana is low cost of living, close priximity to Lake Michigan and the dunes which are pretty cool, and if you're young there's plenty of good colleges around here. But other than that, the job market here is very blah in most parts of the state and jobs don't pay as much compared to other parts of the country. But if you're not interested in having lots of recreational activites or having some super high-end job, then Indiana should be perfect for you. But for someone in their early 20s like me, I think there's much more exciting places to be right now that also boast a low cost of living. Even Tennessee is a lot cooler to me, just due to the beautiful nature and mountains there. So much outdoors stuff to do there. But maybe if you grew up there you'd think of it the same way as I do Indiana. We probably all naturally don't like a lot of things about where we grew up just because that's what we're accustomed too. But I'm sure you'd like it here in Indiana, as long as you move somewhere here with a little more going on. I live in a rural Amish community which is cool, but not for everyone. Whatever you do or wherever you go, wish ya the best of luck on your journeys!
@@mindofzay2024 I really appreciate you taking the time to give me your thoughts about life in Indiana. I also appreciate your perspective. And in addition I thank you for your good thoughts and I wish you the very same! Honestly it sounds like Indiana has exactly what I'm looking for. I'm originally from Nebraska so I'm used to cold winters and I actually miss the cold weather, strange as this sounds. I currently live in Los Angeles, California. There are some good things about life here but honestly in the recent past those advantages seem to have less and less meaning and importance. California has a myriad of growing problems. In LA the streets are dirty, choked with traffic 24/7 and the city is full of a rapidly-growing homeless problem. I'm kind of done with big cities. Rents and property values are sky-high and it amazes me that someone of average means can even survive in this place! I'm somewhat middle of the road politically but I do lean slightly to the conservative side. I'm hoping to buy a house and there's no way that even if I wanted to stay I could afford what I wanted here. I don't really need a lot of entertainment. Nor does it take a whole lot of social interaction for me to be content. I'm a musician and playing for myself is just as satisfying as playing for an audience to me. I enjoy gardening, doing handy and restoration work, working on vintage cars and socializing to a small degree. So, honestly it sounds like Indiana would be a great place for me! I would not live in Indianapolis because in many ways it's just another big city with big city problems. I have a good friend upstate in Rushville that I plan to visit and hopefully he and I can check out some of the smaller communities like Richmond, Bloomington, Lafayette, etc. Thank you again and I hope to hear from you again soon. Have a great day and a great week ahead. Cordially, Louis
@@mindofzay2024 As someone who's born in Carmel Indiana and lived 8 years in indiana before my parents decide to move to California (Santa Clara), I can assure you that in indiana was better as someone who now lives in the city with the 3rd most homless population in the US and can't even walk out of my naborhood without seeing one. Also the amount of cars that are broken into are unbelivible. The situation is only getting worse with the democratic party taking freedoms away. When I moved I struggled to make friends as a minority (white is a minority here) the diversity of Hispanic, and Asian threw me off with lack of american culture in thier blood. It was Extreamly hard to make a connections with locals with different race, and still to this day the only friends I really kept where the same ethnicity as myself. BTW alot of white people here are critized for anything, because they teach critical race theroy in school. When talking about stuff to do there is nothing, I used to go to SF once a month 50 min drive, now haven't been there since oct. 2019 due to the rage in trash, crime, price, and homless, as politics here suck. The beaches are terrible too the water is coming from alaska and if you don't wanna get a cold afterward you gotta buy a $250 wet suit. I prefered (Carmel) Indiana as people, safty, and freedom are way better.
I'm a refugee from California who moved to Kentucky back in 2001, my father saw what was coming to California with its insane policies. I moved to Indiana with my wife who is from Tennessee, it is much cheaper and culturally the same if you move to Southern Indiana, its got a lot of southern culture mixed in with Midwest kindness. I forgot to say that I dont vote Democrat, they messed up California with their wokeness and identity politics, Im Hispanic but I am always American first. No Plantation jail for me and for that they hate me.
@@louislamonte334I'm a 55 y/o, life long Hoosier. While I agree we're not the most exciting state on the map, I have to say I love Indiana geographically. I am not a conservative so I wish the politics were a bit more forward thinking but being a blue dot in a red state is something I can fight for. A free-spirited musician would do well in Brown County. Do you paint/draw as well?
This is such a subjective video. Muncie by far wouldn't be on my top 100 in Indiana. The other 7 are very nice areas, but the Southern half of the state offers some really nice areas for less than half of the Indianapolis suburbs. Winter time weather is far better in the southern part of the state. No list will every be the same per person, but from this video you can tell they were pro Indianapolis metro.
I’ll give you Bloomington. It’s gorgeous but everything else is just a burb of Indianapolis and Muncie has become a dump. 7/8 is essentially not living in the crime ridden part of Indy 😂
I think you might be confused, she never mentioned Westville, it’s Westfield .. There’s hundreds of new people moving to Westfield every month. They can’t build them half million dollar homes fast enough..
Can't forget Hammond Gary and East Chicago are charming cities! Westville is a prison dump and will soon build an addituon because Michigam City will be closing its prison
OK two things you need too know about, first you are only talking about places around Indianapolis so the rest of the state don't matter, Second thing is that there is no and in give the dollar amount, I wish people would learn how to talk.
Disclaimer: only thing muncie has going for it is ball state. Without ball state it would be a Ghost town. It's a vacation compared to places like new Orleans, but I still hear shots fired every week, and we just had a mass shooting, but they dont cover it because it was black on black, which is where all the crime is aside from the druggies on the south side. Resturaunts are LGBT friendly. By that I mean, little girls have came out of the bathroom crying because grown men(1 being an employee-olive garden), followed the girls in the bathroom and tried to talk to them while using the bathroom and theres nothing anyone can do and the resturaunts wont do anything about it.
@@triciaobrien8220 why do you want to know what part I live in..? Are you trying to claim I don't live here? Or are you assuming i live somewhere like Whiteley or the Southside?
@@DevTechGarage I own a rental home in the Old West End area. I wanted to know if you live in that area so I can know if that might become a possible problem for my tenants (hearing shots fired every week). Thanks
@@triciaobrien8220 oh OK. That's fair. Majority of the shots fired comes from Whiteley/morning side and south side muncie. 2 shots fired calls came through yesterday down south hackley. Old west end isn't the greatest of neighborhoods as far as "hoodlums" and bored kids breaking into vehicles go. I've heard no recent incidents of shots fired from west end within the last year. However even decent neighborhoods can have random incidents. A man was executed last year at north Walmart in front of his family. The suspect was apprehended within an hour. And industry(Willard and Hackley) had a mass shooting last year with 26 being shot. East Jackson just had a hostage situation 4 days ago where the man broke the woman's leg and held her at gun point with a shot gun. And north east on Princeton a man pointed a firearm at a woman and Fled the scene. Muncie is referred to as Little Chicago for a reason. I personally ran someone off my property on the east side last week. And someone had burglarized a marine veterans house, stole his vehicle and hid beside my house 2 weeks ago. He dumped stolen property in my yard, upon finding it I noticed dog tags and contacted the owner who informed me of what happened. Always something going on here. If you would like a better idea of day to day, you can google Muncie Indiana police scanner and it will direct you to broadcastify and you can hear roughly what kind of calls come through dispatch. Hope that helps
@@DevTechGarageYes, thanks. It sounds like you believe there is probably some "hoodlum" behavior going on in the Old West End. By "hoodlum" do you mean people committing acts of violence against strangers (like assaults or attacking strangers to get their wallet/purse)? or people committing property crimes (like vandalism or theft of items from resident's yards / porches)? Or both? Thanks
"By the way, if you're interested in exploring affordable living options in Indiana, be sure to check out the article '6 Cheapest Places to Live in Indiana: Affordable Living Options' for more insights!" www.ushistorians.com/cheapest-places-to-live-in-indiana/
My family on my father side is from southern Indiana,
And I've been living here the last 25 years ... I cannot tell you a finer place to live.
In the little town of Winslow, you can buy a livable house for a little is $12,000
Are you can buy a nice home for around $100,000 really nice .
These little places are awesome to live. Nobody knows they're there, and nobody bothers you.
In very small community of 600 people you know who the troublemakers are .
We do have a town called Jasper, and while it is a very nice place to live. The people are very snooty and full of themselves.
You can tell this when you see one of their school buses drive by ,
And on the side of it, it says the greater DUBOIS school district.
Well, my favorite place to live was definitely northern Lake Tahoe incline Village area.
Bang for the buck little town I live in is extremely affordable and you can actually pay your house off in just a few years....
I paid $40,000 for my house just 20 years ago three-bedroom attached garage on 1.75 acres.
As I said, it's very affordable.
I've traveled and worked all over southern Indiana Jasper included. But I've also traveled and worked throughout the US. There are lots of small towns and villages that are great places to live.
my list
1. Carmel
2. Fishers
3. Geist reservoir
4. Greenwood
5. Mooresville
6. Camby
7. Noblesville
8. Zionsville
9. Plainfield
10. Brownsburg
Is Greenwood safe? I read there are shootings
Didn't realize this video was if you want to live in Indianapolis without living in Indianapolis. Every town within 50 miles of Indianapolis.
that’s good for me considering that’s where the jobs are
Fort Wayne is a lot nice than people think!!!!
I like Lebanon, Thorntown, Kokomo, Wabash, French Lick, Monticello, Nashville, Tipton, and Attica
As someone who grew up in Indaina, I miss it, but they have not done much to better my hometown. #1 on this list has always been the most expensive to live in. No surprise there, Greenwood was a little.... but for peace and quiet, I would easily choose Bloomington over Greenwood. You start traving to Soutport area... have fun lol
Bloomington has the highest rent in the state.
The cost of living in Bloomington is jacked because of IU.
Also in southern Indiana there’s Santa Claus , it has a theme park and it is so cool! Also it has a whole village! With 3 lake in the village!
Love how most of these town around the Indy area are know as wealthy suburbs.
I am moving to Mishawaka,Indiana next month I'm hoping it's a good state I will be relocating from Michigan.
I really enjoy the South Bend, Mishawaka area. Hopefully you find it nice as well!
S.Bend,raised Penn Township,s.e.of Mishawaka,…lived ;G.Rap.,Kal.,&13 yrs. In Houston,……this area has N. Dame ,sports,ect.,but is “handy” to;Chicago,Detroit,Indianapolis & lake Michigan for beaches,boating,fishing ! !
How have you liked it now that it has been almost a year?
At 3:55 you show the Nickel Plate Amphitheater which is NOT in Noblesville. It’s in Fishers
The most calm town I know is New market. Not alot of people and business's, but good if you are looking for some peace and quiet
Although the Indianapolis area has a lot to offer, there are also many other more affordable places to live in Indiana. For example, Terre Haute also offers beauriful public parks, art displays, museums, fishing, several universities, restaurants, entertainment, and even a casino. Rents are cheaper than the Indianapolis area, even for seniors. Terre Haute has affordable public transportation and provides ADA door to door services to those who need it. Terre Haute is a city, but retains many rural elements.
Bloomington Indiana is also affordable and has
I love to Indiana
You live in Indiana?
@@beautifulflower327 not yet
This was a great informative video I'm looking for a place to start fresh for my family and I so this was helpful
I live in jasper Indiana. Funny how you concentrate your time on the Indianapolis area. I live rural. The city is nice too visit but at the end of the day I will go back to rural south west Indiana.
I was born and and raised in Bloomington...its a shithole now. I moved 25 years ago to Petersburg (not much better, but better than Bloomington) I worked for Kimball Electronics in Jasper at that time (pre-9/11) and I LOVED that town! Some of the best German restaurants, decent QOL there...but that was over 25 years ago. Not sure what its like now. Hopefully not like Bloomington with drug and crime and the homless sleeping everywhere, even in restaurants! Its a shame, but they allowed IU to completely own that town and now theres nothing of historical value there anymore. Just TONS of 10 story high rise apartments for the students, nothing catered to the working man or woman, just students.
was this about Indiana or a commercial for suburbs of Indy?
Ft. Wayne, or Columbus, Indiana should have been a head of Muncie, Indiana. Although Muncie would have made an excellent #9 pick, being they have Ball State University and the 62 mile Cardinal Trail
Columbus is far too conservative and religious for many people leaving cities. The food scene isn’t great either. My opinion.
Ft. Wayne is beautiful!
@@ladesigner8764 That's why Columbus is such a great place to live. Let's see, morals, ethics, not judgemental people. Oh yeah, and God loving Christian and Jewish people. All the things your children should have, including freedom.
@@m.e.5482 If you're thinking of moving to Indiana, especially from a fairly large city elsewhere, Fort Wayne should probably be near the top of your list of prospective places to live. This seems like a promotional piece for some outfit that builds houses in the suburbs of Indianapolis. No mention of Fort Wayne or South Bend, seems pretty silly to me...
Bloomington has a 10 foot fence around the downtown post office to keep the homeless out of the parking lot! Watch out for discarded needles in the city parks.
My grandmother is from Gary Indiana 💙 ❤️ i want to go to Indiana
My kids Live in G.I. I'm next door in Hammond!
@Berlin70 yaa we are the bastards of the state. Region is still the best part! Hammond, Gary, East Chicago!
@Berlin70 I can actually throw a rock from my house and land in Chicago lol
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I remember a hamburger restaurant in city of Carmel. I forgot the name of it but they serve huge one called big ugly.
Bubs burgers 210 w main st Carmel Indiana
@@ClarenceJones-uf9dh Thank you!
Can you explain about porter county?
What's the most similar thing about Indiana to TV show The Middle? I would like to live in a similar town and a similar house. Which city is better to choose then?
If you’re aiming for a place like The Middle, I’d say check out Columbus or Greenfield in Indiana. They’ve got that true small-town vibe with friendly folks and a laid-back lifestyle, just like Orson in the show. You’ll find plenty of modest houses and neighborhoods that feel like they came straight from the show, with that cozy, middle-class charm.
Anyone that puts Noblesville, Carmel, Fisher (north of Indy suburbs) on their list is obviously not from Indiana, or lives there... They're only really affordable to for rich.
Columbus didn’t make this list? It is one of the most architecturally important cities in the U.S. People travel from all over the world to see its modernist architecture. The I.U. Architectural Masters program is headquartered in Columbus. It has been written about in National Geographic. Cummins Engine is headquartered here. The movie “Columbus” starring John Cho was filmed here. In 2005, GQ magazine listed it as one of 62 reasons to love your country. It’s a treasure hiding in plain sight in the cornfields.
The price not bad ilove to visit some day
should be title 8 places near Indianapolis.
I would not even consider moving within 50 miles of Indianapolis, unless you have a specific need to be there. Or, if you like continuous urban sprawl,cookie cutter homes, and suburbs for the suburbs, you will like it. As for me, I like the Lafayette area and rural areas.
Not to mention never-ending road construction!
I was born in Anderson,In.
Considering what its been through, Anderson is still decent.
Even by Muncie's "median", that wasn't anywhere near a $126K house! That should tell you how "run down" the lower end sections of town are.
How about Cloverdale?:(
Bloomington has the highest rent in the state.
How much?
Lafayette!!
What about Columbus, Indiana?
It's a horrible place to live.
@@kinjunranger140 really? I was told the told is quiet near Columbus Regional
You forgot Lafayette/West Lafayette
Batesville!
I was born in Franklin.
I'm biased, but any of Lafayette, Monticello, Delphi, Rensselaer, or the small towns around them are better places to live than Greenwood at a minimum. You just named suburbs of Indy plus a couple slightly further "suburbs".
The graphic overlays really need some work. I like the orange/yellow graphic for home value and rental prices, but they weren't always present.
While that's a nice graphic, the font and fade-in / fade-out for things like Conner Prairie in Fishers was really amateurish.
And there were so many missed opportunities for infographics. Every time a population was mentioned, it should be on the screen.
Several times, I heard "a number of tech companies", but none were named.
Finally, when describing where a city is, it'd be great to see a map of the state, and a little dot showing us visually, where the city is located. Describing it is too vague.
And Carmel is not IN THE north of Indianapolis. That's saying it's part of Indianapolis, but on the north side. Carmel IS north of Indianapolis. It's completely separate. It's a different county altogether.
I appreciate the attempt, but this was rather poorly done.
This video would be more accurately re-titled "Moving to Indiana - 8 Best Places to Live in CENTRAL Indiana". Muncie and Bloomington are about an hour's drive to Downtown Indianapolis and all the other so-called "cities" in this video are actual SUBURBS of Indianapolis. They are not the best cities that Indiana has to offer. Far from it. They are not even the best that Central Indiana has to offer. West Lafayette and Columbus should most definitely be in the Top 8, replace Westfield and Noblesville.
Correct, or titled most over populated cites in Indiana, most traffic in Indiana. 😅
Bloomington is not a suburb of Indianapolis. Far from it. It's a college town.
Back home again in Indiana, Blackford, county. Moved here last Sept. 2023 from S.w. Ohio. Not much travel distance but a totally different living experience.
Talk Yo ish
Are you not aware of Michigan City Indiana on the shore of Lake Michigan, with a fabulous beach…view of Chicago skyline on a clear day…low crime, great people and affordable housing…well not beach houses ❤️
No mention of anything within a hundred miles of Gary or Lake County...
I've lived in Indiana for 18 years so far and I can tell you nobody wants to live in Muncie Indiana.
Why is that?
@@JNOSNOW Crime is pretty bad there, not to mention the town is looking run down
@@MrTonyPiscatelle yeah that's most places now. What is there to do for work? Farming and trucking?
@@JNOSNOW No !! There are a lot of jobs in Indiana. Just about anything you could think of
@@MrTonyPiscatelle Cool. Born and raised central Washington in agriculture and my family sold the farms and business out from under us so if I'm not tied to this horrible state anymore we're thinking of moving out to my wife's family around Muncie area who have a farm and maybe starting something.
Raised in Mishawaka
I'm moving to Indiana
Stay away from Indy and cities around indy. Full of murders and crime. Do your research before even visiting. Small towns are your best bet. I'm in muncie and it's a decent town but still has crime. Occasional murder, shots fired in the ghettos and south side of town. Aside from that its decent.
Wish you the best of luck your going to need it
@@globalincrisis9229 u2
How is that going?
Well chucks, they left out Gary.
The only place you should go in Indiana is Indianapolis, Spencer, or Greenfield it’s wild how they demonetize us from being where we’re from but in the 18-1900s wasn’t nothing here but old country folks
All this video talks about is cities around Indianapolis. There are some great cities in the northern part of the state ( like Valparaiso) but they are never mentioned.
Greenwood??
I like Beech Grove which is near by. Greenwood is good too.
Fishers & Carmel used to have an over abundance of online female singles too btw.
WHERE THE FLIP IS ARBURN
What the heck is Arburn?
Carmel really is boring, no places to shop, really is a city that only looks nice and does have places to eat and drink and that is it, everything else you need to leave Carmel. Fishers is nice and is on the border with Hamilton Town Center. I would say Fishers is #1.
Should have called this Places to live if you want to live in Indianapolis.
Nice to see the southern end of the state gets shit on again.
Not that I think we deserve to be on this list.
WITHOUT further ado? I insist on more ado.
What? Not Marion? UNless you are African-American of course. Lots of history for the buffs there.
BRO WHATTT I WATCH “ worst places to live in indiana” AND MUNCIE IS ON THERE😂😂😂😂
Indiana... nah I'll pass
Bloomington is not in the southern part of the state there was not one city from southern Indiana in this, but OK 🤷🏽♀️
Muncie also has high crime!
Muncie? They were also on your 10 Poorest Cities . . . Hmmm . . .
I would love to move to Indiana for a lot of reasons!! California stinks to high heaven and is a Terrible place!!
As someone living in Indiana I'll give you my little take on it good and bad. So yes, cost of living here is very cheap compared to most of the country. In the cities obviously you'll find more middle of the pack kind of cost of living but still very affordable. But the cities here are very very boring in my honest opinion. Indy is cool but there's just not much to do anywhere else in this state unless you live by Lake Michigan. Southern Indiana does have a considerable amount of caves though and a lot more rolling hills and forest / woodland.
Here in Northern Indiana it's extremely flat and has these massive stretches of endless fields of corn which is beautiful in certain regards, but also pretty boring. And the only plus I consider to living in Northern Indiana is low cost of living, close priximity to Lake Michigan and the dunes which are pretty cool, and if you're young there's plenty of good colleges around here. But other than that, the job market here is very blah in most parts of the state and jobs don't pay as much compared to other parts of the country.
But if you're not interested in having lots of recreational activites or having some super high-end job, then Indiana should be perfect for you. But for someone in their early 20s like me, I think there's much more exciting places to be right now that also boast a low cost of living. Even Tennessee is a lot cooler to me, just due to the beautiful nature and mountains there. So much outdoors stuff to do there. But maybe if you grew up there you'd think of it the same way as I do Indiana.
We probably all naturally don't like a lot of things about where we grew up just because that's what we're accustomed too. But I'm sure you'd like it here in Indiana, as long as you move somewhere here with a little more going on. I live in a rural Amish community which is cool, but not for everyone. Whatever you do or wherever you go, wish ya the best of luck on your journeys!
@@mindofzay2024 I really appreciate you taking the time to give me your thoughts about life in Indiana. I also appreciate your perspective. And in addition I thank you for your good thoughts and I wish you the very same! Honestly it sounds like Indiana has exactly what I'm looking for. I'm originally from Nebraska so I'm used to cold winters and I actually miss the cold weather, strange as this sounds. I currently live in Los Angeles, California. There are some good things about life here but honestly in the recent past those advantages seem to have less and less meaning and importance. California has a myriad of growing problems. In LA the streets are dirty, choked with traffic 24/7 and the city is full of a rapidly-growing homeless problem. I'm kind of done with big cities. Rents and property values are sky-high and it amazes me that someone of average means can even survive in this place! I'm somewhat middle of the road politically but I do lean slightly to the conservative side. I'm hoping to buy a house and there's no way that even if I wanted to stay I could afford what I wanted here. I don't really need a lot of entertainment. Nor does it take a whole lot of social interaction for me to be content. I'm a musician and playing for myself is just as satisfying as playing for an audience to me. I enjoy gardening, doing handy and restoration work, working on vintage cars and socializing to a small degree. So, honestly it sounds like Indiana would be a great place for me! I would not live in Indianapolis because in many ways it's just another big city with big city problems. I have a good friend upstate in Rushville that I plan to visit and hopefully he and I can check out some of the smaller communities like Richmond, Bloomington, Lafayette, etc. Thank you again and I hope to hear from you again soon. Have a great day and a great week ahead. Cordially, Louis
@@mindofzay2024 As someone who's born in Carmel Indiana and lived 8 years in indiana before my parents decide to move to California (Santa Clara), I can assure you that in indiana was better as someone who now lives in the city with the 3rd most homless population in the US and can't even walk out of my naborhood without seeing one. Also the amount of cars that are broken into are unbelivible. The situation is only getting worse with the democratic party taking freedoms away.
When I moved I struggled to make friends as a minority (white is a minority here) the diversity of Hispanic, and Asian threw me off with lack of american culture in thier blood. It was Extreamly hard to make a connections with locals with different race, and still to this day the only friends I really kept where the same ethnicity as myself. BTW alot of white people here are critized for anything, because they teach critical race theroy in school. When talking about stuff to do there is nothing, I used to go to SF once a month 50 min drive, now haven't been there since oct. 2019 due to the rage in trash, crime, price, and homless, as politics here suck. The beaches are terrible too the water is coming from alaska and if you don't wanna get a cold afterward you gotta buy a $250 wet suit. I prefered (Carmel) Indiana as people, safty, and freedom are way better.
I'm a refugee from California who moved to Kentucky back in 2001, my father saw what was coming to California with its insane policies. I moved to Indiana with my wife who is from Tennessee, it is much cheaper and culturally the same if you move to Southern Indiana, its got a lot of southern culture mixed in with Midwest kindness. I forgot to say that I dont vote Democrat, they messed up California with their wokeness and identity politics, Im Hispanic but I am always American first. No Plantation jail for me and for that they hate me.
@@louislamonte334I'm a 55 y/o, life long Hoosier. While I agree we're not the most exciting state on the map, I have to say I love Indiana geographically. I am not a conservative so I wish the politics were a bit more forward thinking but being a blue dot in a red state is something I can fight for. A free-spirited musician would do well in Brown County. Do you paint/draw as well?
If you enjoy corn and a whole lot of nothing, it's a great place to live
you had muncie on your list of worst places to live...
I got this by looking up cheapest places.
9:09 If Carmel is number one I'm disliking as she is only going with safe. 10:09 it is done
This is such a subjective video. Muncie by far wouldn't be on my top 100 in Indiana. The other 7 are very nice areas, but the Southern half of the state offers some really nice areas for less than half of the Indianapolis suburbs. Winter time weather is far better in the southern part of the state. No list will every be the same per person, but from this video you can tell they were pro Indianapolis metro.
Wow. Can't believe you drove the 50 miles to Muncie. Everything else is
They never show these places in the winter lol
Winter can be a pain.
I live in a safer environment than all of the in north west Indiana
120k average house cost. Not any more. 240k seems to be the norm. That's bidenomics in action.
Demotteeee
Hammond!
I’ll give you Bloomington. It’s gorgeous but everything else is just a burb of Indianapolis and Muncie has become a dump. 7/8 is essentially not living in the crime ridden part of Indy 😂
you gotta be kidding on muncie. it's depressing
This information is incorrect. Munster, Crown Point, Valparaiso, Carmel, South Bend, and Franklin. No one is looking at Westville. Do your research.
I think you might be confused, she never mentioned Westville, it’s Westfield .. There’s hundreds of new people moving to Westfield every month. They can’t build them half million dollar homes fast enough..
I don’t know. Westville has its charms. The cat no kill shelter and the juvenile prison are great attractions. Well the cat shelter at least is.
Can't forget Hammond Gary and East Chicago are charming cities! Westville is a prison dump and will soon build an addituon because Michigam City will be closing its prison
You didn't even spell it correctly. It's Westfield.
@@dangabor8585 it's a Westville and a Westfield goof troop
OK two things you need too know about, first you are only talking about places around Indianapolis so the rest of the state don't matter, Second thing is that there is no and in give the dollar amount, I wish people would learn how to talk.
You lost me at Muncie its a eye sore and has a real crime problem with out Ball State it has nothing going for it.
Grew up in indianus, I'll pass....
This should be called " Indianapolis suburbs are the best places to live"
I dont even count those 🤣 its all indy
Right away I know you don’t have a clue. Muncie is one of the trashiest towns in Indiana, crime rates are very high, just a bad place to be
The only HEEEELLLLL with Indiana! Not even Indians are there
There are no good places to live in indiana. Trust me
Disclaimer: only thing muncie has going for it is ball state. Without ball state it would be a Ghost town. It's a vacation compared to places like new Orleans, but I still hear shots fired every week, and we just had a mass shooting, but they dont cover it because it was black on black, which is where all the crime is aside from the druggies on the south side. Resturaunts are LGBT friendly. By that I mean, little girls have came out of the bathroom crying because grown men(1 being an employee-olive garden), followed the girls in the bathroom and tried to talk to them while using the bathroom and theres nothing anyone can do and the resturaunts wont do anything about it.
What neighborhood in Muncie do you live in? Old West End? Industry? 47302? Thanks 😊
@@triciaobrien8220 why do you want to know what part I live in..? Are you trying to claim I don't live here? Or are you assuming i live somewhere like Whiteley or the Southside?
@@DevTechGarage I own a rental home in the Old West End area. I wanted to know if you live in that area so I can know if that might become a possible problem for my tenants (hearing shots fired every week). Thanks
@@triciaobrien8220 oh OK. That's fair. Majority of the shots fired comes from Whiteley/morning side and south side muncie. 2 shots fired calls came through yesterday down south hackley. Old west end isn't the greatest of neighborhoods as far as "hoodlums" and bored kids breaking into vehicles go. I've heard no recent incidents of shots fired from west end within the last year. However even decent neighborhoods can have random incidents. A man was executed last year at north Walmart in front of his family. The suspect was apprehended within an hour. And industry(Willard and Hackley) had a mass shooting last year with 26 being shot. East Jackson just had a hostage situation 4 days ago where the man broke the woman's leg and held her at gun point with a shot gun. And north east on Princeton a man pointed a firearm at a woman and Fled the scene. Muncie is referred to as Little Chicago for a reason. I personally ran someone off my property on the east side last week. And someone had burglarized a marine veterans house, stole his vehicle and hid beside my house 2 weeks ago. He dumped stolen property in my yard, upon finding it I noticed dog tags and contacted the owner who informed me of what happened. Always something going on here. If you would like a better idea of day to day, you can google Muncie Indiana police scanner and it will direct you to broadcastify and you can hear roughly what kind of calls come through dispatch. Hope that helps
@@DevTechGarageYes, thanks. It sounds like you believe there is probably some "hoodlum" behavior going on in the Old West End. By "hoodlum" do you mean people committing acts of violence against strangers (like assaults or attacking strangers to get their wallet/purse)? or people committing property crimes (like vandalism or theft of items from resident's yards / porches)? Or both? Thanks