Reviews & Comments
Indianapolis, IN
re: Bottom feeder city
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8/4/2019Way to refute my points, Franklin. All that's missing is the blank Hoosier stare. Carry on, Gomer.
Iowa City, IA
re: Not the worst place I've lived.
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8/4/2019About what I would expect from somebody who moved to Indiana. Good luck with that. Say hi to the meth dealer next store for me. I miss Indiana...not.
Denver, CO
re: Angry Natives... But Still a Nice Place
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8/4/2019Denver is going through some puberty now? LOL, Denver was going through puberty in 1980 when I first moved there. It's a city that will NEVER grow up and mature. It basically attracts slackers and other losers who can't make a go of it where they're planted. Glad I left. Life is better post-Denver.
Indianapolis, IN
Bottom feeder city -
7/13/2019I've been to just about every big city and with the exception of St. Louis and Baltimore, Indianapolis is at the bottom of my list of America's urban places. It's a very immature city in the sense that it has supporters and if you say something negative about it they're all over you. The only other city I've ever seen that mindset in was Denver...also very immature. You don't see it in really great places. You can criticize Seattle or Portland and people will listen and engage without turning into emotional basket cases. Not in Indy. No way.
The city has a lot of problems and they get glossed over by the marketing people who are trying to present it as a hip, compact, walkable urban destination. They've built the Cultural Trail, for example. They think this makes them Amsterdam, but it's really nothing more than a glorified sidewalk with a nice brick inlay. Lots of those bricks are crumbling and they won't get fixed because maintaining what you build is not the Hoosier way. Speaking of which, potholes and hotpatch. Yeah. You go, Indy!
If you do decide to walk around downtown, take some comfort in the fact that it's relatively easy to legally carry a firearm in Indy. You're going to need one, because there are an awful lot of people illegally carrying firearms and they are not afraid to use them. As long as you're quick on the draw and not afraid to fire back, you should be okay. That said, this city in murder central. You have been warned.
I could go on about the lack of social skills so common among Hoosiers, but that's just piling on. I don't want to be mean. That said, local officials spend a lot of time marketing their city nationally and globally. If they spent half that time maintaining and fixing what's broken instead, Indy could be a pretty nice place. But they don't. It's just not in the Hoosier DNA to take care of things. So if you're from Paris, see the glowing ads and come, it has to be quite a shock. I'll betcha don't come back. I haven't. Life is way too short to spend in a place like Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, IN
re: Terrible, Horrible, Sad excuse of a small
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7/13/2019It doesn't help, Inebriated. Nobody cares about how old or liberal you are. Try to stay on subject. I grew up in northern Indiana. I used to think it was a real dump. These days, Indianapolis is worse than Gary. That's a fact. In the race to the bottom, you're winning. Northern Indiana isn't getting much better, but Indianapolis is circling the drain.