Stay away
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11/4/2014
My wife and I have been in Indiana for five years because of ours jobs and all I can say is YUCK!
I'm originally from the midwest and my wife is from the south so we don't have unrealistic expectations. You shouldn't have any expectations about Indiana. It's legal here to shoot police officers if they don't clearly identify themselves. You can't buy alcohol on Sundays. The KKK ran the state government until the 1930's then the FBI finally ran them out of the state capitol. Take a trip to northern Indiana (around the Dunes) and there's a white supremacist radio station on air, seriously.
Needless to say, this place is the most backwards looking, conservative, homophobic, xenophobic place one can imagine. The word Hoosier originally was southern slang describing the uncouth people in the flatlands north of the Ohio river. That's spot on.
Indianapolis is one of the unsafest cities in the U.S. It's perpetually poor, polluted, violent crime is through the roof, and the people are half-educated. There aren't any recreational activities except for one bike trail probably because the the majority of people are overweight smokers. Bit hey there's a race track, and two sports teams that are insanely subsidized by Marion county. You actually have to pay a commuter tax if you live outside of Marion county but work there. That's how poorly Indianapolis is financed.
Carmel, Fishers, and Zionsville are richer versions of this to the north of Indianapolis. Fisheres and Carmel are both cookie-cutter suburbs filled with strip-malls and national business chains. Carmel is in debt up to ears because of its rapid development plan (which hasn't included infrastructure) so expect taxes to jump.
steve | Carmel, IN