Indiana: a national WORST state in American State Litter Scorecard (Indianapolis: transplants, living in)
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"Building a World Class City"
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Location: Indianapolis
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Originally Posted by kroystet
TRASH!! The least of my concerns right now. I'm running from the "Thugs" in Chicago. Would love to relocated to Rural Chesterton Indiana, but I don't know much about the city. Is it a good place to buy acreage and feel free from the "Thug Life"?
well most of Indiana outside of NWI doesnt have to worry about thugs.
The Thugs in Indianapolis arent even as rampart or common as the ones youll find in Chicago.
If you want a peaceful life but live close to a big city for amendities you could consider living in the Suburbs outside of Indianapolis. Carmel/Fishers/Avon/Brownsburg etc are great places to retire too and they arent to far from shopping and everything youll need for yourself and the grandkids in Indianapolis.
Other areas to consider too are Westfield and Cicero Indiana which is a community built on a lake
If your grandkids like swimming/fishing and boating on a lake or if you guys like them too then i would HIGHLY recommend looking into Cicero, Indiana.
I wouldn't put any stock in these dumb surveys or articles that rate states unless they have actual pertinent relevant statistics. FoxNEWs.com ran one about the most currupt states. New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California were nowhere on the list. EG: Illinois has its last two govenors in prison. New York and the MOB. But they aren't on the list??? HMMMM
I fail to understand how litter is not a government issue or problem. How many thousands of dollars are spent in this state cleaning up the junk people throw out driving on highways, etc?
For example, last week there was a chair sitting in the median of 37 in Monroe County. The chair is now gone. I suspect the county had to send someone out to pick it up as it was a bit of an obstruction on the highway.
I am constantly stunned by the amount of trash I see on the sides of the roads here. Drive on 37 south of Indianapolis some day after it's been mowed. There is trash every where. It's not uncommon for me to see bottles, cans, fast food bags, diapers, bags of garbage, and all kinds of junk on the sides of the roads I drive daily. Right now the grass and weeds hide some of it, but in the winter months the road sides are full of junk.
I've driven in other places, including the Chicago area and NWI. I've never seen anything like this in other places. People are pigs. I really don't understand it. When one lives in one of the most beautiful parts of the state, why would they want to destroy it with trash?
When we bought our first house in suburban Chicago twenty some years ago we had better and more options for curbside recycling than we did in Indiana when we moved 10 years ago. Even within the city limits of Bloomington, the curbside recycling efforts were behind the times then. It's just been in the last 3-4 years that I can take plastics to County recycling center.
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Originally Posted by Prairieparson
I wouldn't put any stock in these dumb surveys or articles that rate states unless they have actual pertinent relevant statistics. FoxNEWs.com ran one about the most currupt states. New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California were nowhere on the list. EG: Illinois has its last two govenors in prison. New York and the MOB. But they aren't on the list??? HMMMM
ya that list shocked me and instantly proved to be false. ANY list that does not have Ill-Annoy as near #1 if not #1 on its list for most corruption will instantly lose all crediability.
I fail to understand how litter is not a government issue or problem. How many thousands of dollars are spent in this state cleaning up the junk people throw out driving on highways, etc?
For example, last week there was a chair sitting in the median of 37 in Monroe County. The chair is now gone. I suspect the county had to send someone out to pick it up as it was a bit of an obstruction on the highway.
I am constantly stunned by the amount of trash I see on the sides of the roads here. Drive on 37 south of Indianapolis some day after it's been mowed. There is trash every where. It's not uncommon for me to see bottles, cans, fast food bags, diapers, bags of garbage, and all kinds of junk on the sides of the roads I drive daily. Right now the grass and weeds hide some of it, but in the winter months the road sides are full of junk.
I've driven in other places, including the Chicago area and NWI. I've never seen anything like this in other places. People are pigs. I really don't understand it. When one lives in one of the most beautiful parts of the state, why would they want to destroy it with trash?
When we bought our first house in suburban Chicago twenty some years ago we had better and more options for curbside recycling than we did in Indiana when we moved 10 years ago. Even within the city limits of Bloomington, the curbside recycling efforts were behind the times then. It's just been in the last 3-4 years that I can take plastics to County recycling center.
Indiana lags far behind in recycling and litter control.
Westfield is one of the few cities that has free curbside recycling with weekly pickup. A large recyclables tote is provided to each household. You don't even have to sort your recycling, just toss it in the tote and roll it out to the curb every week. As a result most of us have little to put in our trash cans.
But most of the state doesn't care. Hoosiers seem to think landfill space is unlimited.
TRASH!! The least of my concerns right now. I'm running from the "Thugs" in Chicago. Would love to relocated to Rural Chesterton Indiana, but I don't know much about the city. Is it a good place to buy acreage and feel free from the "Thug Life"?
Chesterton is a great little town, so is Valparaiso. Have you talked to a local realtor yet?
I've driven in other places, including the Chicago area and NWI. I've never seen anything like this in other places. People are pigs. I really don't understand it. When one lives in one of the most beautiful parts of the state, why would they want to destroy it with trash?
Maybe I need to get my eyes checked, because I've never seen trash as a big problem along this route...or anywhere in Indiana in particular. Sure, there's the occasional mess, but it didn't jump out to me the way it did in the Deep South, where I saw random casual dump sites all over the place, along with pervasive littering everywhere.
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Maybe I need to get my eyes checked, because I've never seen trash as a big problem along this route...or anywhere in Indiana in particular. Sure, there's the occasional mess, but it didn't jump out to me the way it did in the Deep South, where I saw random casual dump sites all over the place, along with pervasive littering everywhere.
Southern Indiana can be very bad with regard to litter alongside the roads.
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