Indiana...a depressing place to live?? (Columbus: 2013, safe, warehouses)

[lofel]

Originally Posted by INstix

It's true...Indiana can be depressing. But I think anywhere can be depressing. I mean, it's so arbitrary, isn't it? What makes one person feel at home is totally different than what makes someone else comfortable.

For some time now I have been looking for something...maybe just looking to run away from what I've been used to? I'm not sure. Anyway, I have posted on lots of forums with the full intention of moving to about 7 different places in the last couple of years. I would make plans, investigate, even look up houses on Realtor.com. My poor husband had to listen to me rant and rave about the "latest place", because all I wanted to do was get out and live somewhere else. Everywhere else seemed better to me.

I guess it was a phase I went through or something, perhaps connected with entering the 40's decade for me. Anyway, I started looking at why in the world I thought everywhere else held the keys to happiness for me. Yes, I love to travel, and yes, there are many areas that hold a lot more enjoyment than the town where I live now. But moving was becoming an obsession for me because I just knew everything was going to be so much better at the other places I wanted to go. That is just not a healthy reason to move.

So I settled down and decided to rediscover Indiana. We're going to take small trips around the state this summer and see things-probably things I've never seen in all my life here as a hoosier. True, we are going to take a trip this fall to Salem, Mass...an area of the world I think is just fascinating, but I've told my husband the "moving crisis" is over. If we ever decide to move, it needs to be for better reasons than boredom and wanting to believe all my problems will magically resolve in a new town.

I need to be a whole person wherever I am, not be looking for someplace to make me feel whole. But I think travel is wonderful, and if a person really feels where they are isn't satisfying what they need-travel!! It's wonderful, better than drugs, and expands your learning and attitudes. As long as you don't think moving will make everything in your life better (because your problems and attitudes will follow you wherever you go) you might just find someplace that fits your style better.

prolonged bad weather

[sun13sky]

This is the problem, the media only talks about negative stuff, nothing positive.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by msamhunter

To much diversity? Really
Billboards? Joke of a comment
Cabs? god forbid someone needs a taxi
Church handouts for the minorities? What a joke, from someone who's VOLUNTEERED on a continual basis, you should check the makeup of who needs help.
Reserve? Couldn't make it up to be with the big boys? Did they see something you didn't posses?
Welfare Offices? You mean the same offices that exist in all 92 Indiana counties?

I actually have a little bit of pity for you because it's quite sad with the ole hillbilly jim attitude.

I find Indiana to be rather awful, but the critiques posted by that joker are ridiculous.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by sun13sky

This is the problem, the media only talks about negative stuff, nothing positive.

Yep.

[Guineas]

Originally Posted by Midwest Revival

From the cornfields in central Indiana to the gasoline refinery's on the shores of Lake Michigan..Indiana is the most emptiest,nothingest, state of them all. It's just a whole lot of nothing, it's one of the states that you'd wish would just disapear from the map due to it's emptyness. Miles of rural country roads with driveways that are super long just about sums up Indiana.

+1. Part of the problem with Indiana's reputation is that if you just stay on the interstates driving through Indiana, it's such an unpleasant drive.

Indiana is after all the "Crossroads of America." The interstates are also packed full of semis.

You got refineries bordering Chicago, and you got the warehouses and car dealers outside of Louisville on the Indiana side.

The whole state is covered with thousands of billboards of strip clubs, sleazy lawyer faces (Alvarez and the Motorcycle Lawyer), degree mills, and fast food chains. It just reeks of sleaze. These endless billboards honestly ruin the whole state's reputation. I don't think Midwest small town charm when I see them.

Once you enter Kentucky, it's a like a breath of fresh air without the billboard pollution. I would take the drive from Louisville to Lexington (rolling hills, horse farms, no billboards, no strip malls) over I-65 in Indiana any day of the week.

[grmasterb]

Originally Posted by Guineas

+1. Part of the problem with Indiana's reputation is that if you just stay on the interstates driving through Indiana, it's such an unpleasant drive.

Indiana is after all the "Crossroads of America." The interstates are also packed full of semis.

You got refineries bordering Chicago, and you got the warehouses and car dealers outside of Louisville on the Indiana side.

The whole state is covered with thousands of billboards of strip clubs, sleazy lawyer faces (Alvarez and the Motorcycle Lawyer), degree mills, and fast food chains. It just reeks of sleaze. These endless billboards honestly ruin the whole state's reputation. I don't think Midwest small town charm when I see them.

Once you enter Kentucky, it's a like a breath of fresh air without the billboard pollution. I would take the drive from Louisville to Lexington (rolling hills, horse farms, no billboards, no strip malls) over I-65 in Indiana any day of the week.

Another great thing about Kentucky: The convenience of the dating scene. No need for a separate Match.com account when your Ancestry.com account will suffice.

[domergurl]

Well, considering today's weather … yuck, it is pretty depressing in Indiana today.

[grmasterb]

Originally Posted by domergurl

Well, considering today's weather … yuck, it is pretty depressing in Indiana today.

Imagine if all of this rain were snow.

[domergurl]

I'd rather have the snow! Columbus had over 5 inches of rain yesterday. At least with snow, my dog would be happy!

[baileyvpotter]

Originally Posted by grmasterb

Imagine if all of this rain were snow.

I'm with you. Had too many years shoveling that lake effect crap and getting stuck when
the plows left a mound where we had to exist either through a driveway or alley.