Reviews & Comments
Indiana, IN
re: shelbyville, indiana
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5/2/2023Lots of Hoosiers on these posts blindly disagreeing with every negative comment, but this is exactly my experience. The crime is low, and cost of living is too, but that's all this state has going for it. We get "all four seasons", aka 2 weeks of spring followed by hot humid summers that rival Memphis, followed by a week of the leaves turning orange before the winter wind blows it all away. Spring starts and ends in May. Winter is from the end of October through the first week of May. Gloomy the whole time without a break in the weather.
Indiana, IN
re: Indiana Rocks!
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5/2/2023I notice a lot of people giving Indiana good reviews who are from the southern part of the state. I think its worth noting that the southern and northern halves of the state are COMPLETELY different.
If you tell someone from Lake county that Indiana is one of the best places to live in the country, they're going to look at you like you have a third arm. The weather is miserable, the people are miserable, its ground zero for the American drug epidemic, no interesting geography, and the lake actually makes the situation worse. You might as well live in Seattle with how gloomy it is here. At least Seattle is temperate and doesn't have 4.5 month-long winters.
The southern part of the state is a lot more like Kentucky, and in some cases Appalachia. I liken it to southern Ohio, where there are hills, beautiful state parks, crystal-clear creeks and rivers, and much better weather than in the north. Far less people too, which is a plus imo.
The only reason you'd want to live in the northern part of the state is if you have the displeasure of needing to go to Chicago for work, or if you needed a place to run from Illinois to without leaving the area entirely. I don't exaggerate when I say a majority of my town is transplants from Illinois.