SperlingViews - Gary, Indiana

This is not a safe environment to raise your family due to the high crime rate. There are no jobs and the public schools are horrible. The atmosphere is dated and cheap. It looks like a ghost town. The only compliment I can give Gary, In. would be the fact that this is Michael Jackson's birth place. Joe Jackson knew what he was doing when he got his family out of that dump![read more...]

Those who never left Gary cannot appreciate the brilliance that is the city. It has more major highway connections than cities 12x its size, it is less than an hour from 3 major airports, 2 international sea ports, and it has a great working class because of the mill. We've got tons of people who know how to work with electrical, mechanical, and contruction engineering. So please, just because your poor of spirit doesn't mean we all plan to wallow lay idle. We have over 40 miles the best beach on lake michigan. I go there almost every day in the summer time. Its quiet and lovely and no one bothers me. As a matter of fact I've been in Gary since I was born in 1972 and I always love coming back. Sure crime has become more of an issue, but its actually more of a media sterotype than actual figures. we average like 60 murders a year for almost 100k people...please pay attention to the differences of 60 and 100,000.[read more...]

it smells like dead bodys everywhere.I have only found 4 since i lived here but it smells like alot more.[read more...]

gary suckz. bad crime bad income and itz a shithole f gary and indiana[read more...]

Coming from the Chicago School System I was very shock to see a big difference in the Gary School System. My son has learned more in 4 weeks than he did in 12 years at the Chicago School System. I am really impressed with the amount of concern the staff and teacher has for each student.[read more...]

I grew up here in the 60s and it was a pleasant community. Of course, I lived on the right side of the tracks (actually the interstate). We felt safe trick or treating and the neighborhood had a variety of ethnicities. My entire family was here. Going downtown was always a thrill even though there had been decline for a number of years (before I was born). With the underprivileged blacks and the decline of the steel mills employment, the town changed dramatically. With jobs leaving, businesses closing and houses standing empty, crime and poverty were all that remained. Whites fled to surrounding towns and when the blacks followed, the whites moved even further away. There is absolutely no reason to live here now. Why 99,000 still bother amazes me unless they are trapped. The town offers nothing to its residents but ugly brick buildings, boarded up neighborhoods, and the dying dreams of those who once enjoyed living in a thriving economy and a safe small city that had Chicago in its backyard. Today, there is no place that occupies the bottom like Gary does--of course there are some pretty unfortunate places in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but I only have experience in Gary.[read more...]