Overall living in South Bend
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4/15/2010
I am a born and raised native of SB, for the last thirty-five years. I have lived on the West Side, Southside, and the Southeast side. South Bend was once a great place to raise a family, but I have seen my hometown slowly go downhill over the last fifteen years. My husband is an active person and enjoys going on walks, but he has since stopped since being mugged/jumped four times over a three-month period in 2008! I spoke with a police officer in March of 2010, and SB currently has 250 officers on payroll to police a city of over 100,000 residents. This could be part of the problem.
The school corp is doing what they can to increase the quality of our education, and we do have a few awesome schools due to the curriculuum and the staff: Tarkington Traditional, Kennedy Academy and possibly Marquette Montessori. Marquette is a new publically-funded Montessori program and are still working out the bugs. They are building a new schoool which should be open for the 2010-2011 school year. So far though, I have found the education to be quite good.
Overall, I am saddened by the quality of living in my hometown. Now that we have children and crime is on the rise, we are looking at moving to a safer city several miles away. The best way to get to know a town is to talk to the people. Most people (not all), are in South Bend because the cost of living is cheap, but don't really like it here. If they do like it, ask them where they live and how long they have lived there, or here in SB.
Darla | South Bend, IN