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Originally Posted by hoosier812
I live in Bloomington, Indiana and it's become a not-so-nice place to live. Please, I wouldn't come here. The economy is bad -- no jobs and high cost of living. There are some major problems with Bloomington. I had to learn all this the hard way. I'm from Jefferson City, Mo and Fort Wayne and I wish I had stayed in those places instead. I wish I could tell you how bad Bloomington really is, but I'm scared I'll get kicked out of the forum. Please reconsider. It's called "B-Town" for a reason... "B" for BAD!
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You're insane.....I just left Bloomington (grad school) and have family in Jefferson City, matter of fact, just was there 2 weekends ago. It's not even a comparison, Bloomington blows both Ft. Wayne and Jeff. City, Mo out the water. The IU campus is beautiful, good sports scene, PHENOMENAL music scene (the Bluebird has national acts at least 5 times per semester and good indy bands every week), good places to eat (Siam House, Mark Pi's, Casablanca Cafe, Cafe et Crepe, Little Zagreb, The Irish Lion, Mother Bear's Pizza). Only one Target and one Wal-Mart (on opposite ends of down), but decent enough for a college town. The downtown square is cool with a lot of unique little shops.
Nightlife......it's a college town and one of the better nightlife scenes in the Big Ten....maybe even the US. In addition to the Bluebird, you've got the aforemention IrishLion, The Crazy Horse, Nick's (go sink the biz), Kilroy's, Kilroy's Sports, Yogi's (my personal fave) and quite a few others. And it's not just students, you'll find young professionals and alums enjoying the nightlife on a weekend too.
If the scenery of the IU campus is not enough for you, just pop in and visit the history in many of the campus buildings. The IU Museum is outstanding, and the Union is the largest in the Big Ten.
Since it is a college town, away from campus is dependent on what side of town you live on. The East Side (east of Walnut) and the area by the mall has some of the most beautiful houses in the city, and nicer, newer apartments. The West and parts of the South sides are older and IMO, more mid-lower income, and kind of good ol boyish. Want to get out of town, Indianapolis is an hour north, Columbus (beautiful drive, especially in the fall) is an hour east, and Lake Monroe (an absolutely stunning lake, spent many a day there just relaxing) is 20 minutes south. Louisville is about 2 hours south.
To to the OG poster, Jeff. City is as dead as a doorknob, there's NO NIGHTLIFE, Lincoln U. does not have the kind of environment that makes a town with a university any fun, and you're hard pressed to find anywhere other than Mickey D's and Applebee's oper after 10pm. Fort Wayne, ditto, expect for that one complex of clubs FTW has where you're basically surrounded by thugs and NASCARS fans.
Bloomington cost of living is somewhat higher, but affordable housing can be found, and so can jobs (I had 3 of them while I was there, not super high paying, but enough to pay the bills and feed myself). As a Purdue man and formerly sworn Bloomington hater (till I went to school there), I'd recommend it to anyone, I wouldn't have left if I didn't have to.
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09-03-2007, 08:45 AM
Nooooooooo!
There's really nowhere good to eat in NV so a new place is great news.
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