Warsaw Area? (Lafayette, Plymouth, North Manchester: low crime, credit card, new house)

[lola76]

I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a nice place to live near Warsaw? I've researched local cities and I havevn't found one that has that mayberry feel without being so far from stores. I need the city to have excellent schools, low crime and great youth sporting organizations.

Maybe Warsaw is a great town and I am not giving it enough credit. It just seems that so many of the houses I've looked at within 30 miles of Warsaw are older and not so nice. I need a 4-5 bedroom house for under 350.

Thank you!

And we'd like to be within 45 minutes of Warsaw without being in a big city.

[domergurl]

Have you looked at Plymouth or North Manchester? Plymouth is a straight shot west of Warsaw off the junction of US30 & US31. Good, stable community with good schools and shopping. North Manchester is a cute college town just south of Warsaw, not as much shopping as Plymouth. Nappannee is also nice and has a great school system. As for your pricerange, you shouldn't have any problems finding a house under 350K in any of those places, but since the towns are smaller, the housing tends to be older too ... it's kind of a tradeoff.

[Skeletoil]

Syracuse, IN, since we lost the Dana plant, there's good property's available. Nice area with 10 lakes within say within 12 miles. New houses around $150k, used for less. Want to live around the big lakes, millionaires only. Smaller lake cottages are still at premium but can be bought reasonbly if your willing to play the waiting game, offer and wait. Nice area though. Summer traffic at the resturants is fierce, reservations at most nice places. Half hour wait if you don't have one. I don't mean to demean it, I mean I left my credit card at a restaurant and the waitress took the time on her cell phone to call me about it. I'm talkin small town with good people. Nice schools and good jobs within say 16 miles. I'm talkin good jobs, but they play the temporary agencys heavy. You might be a temp for 90 days and then I know peeps that have been temps for 4 years. I loved living in Louisiana for 2 years and I would love to live there again but it's so mellow and smooth here that I can't leave.

[Future Trooper]

Originally Posted by lola76

I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a nice place to live near Warsaw? I've researched local cities and I havevn't found one that has that mayberry feel without being so far from stores. I need the city to have excellent schools, low crime and great youth sporting organizations.

Maybe Warsaw is a great town and I am not giving it enough credit. It just seems that so many of the houses I've looked at within 30 miles of Warsaw are older and not so nice. I need a 4-5 bedroom house for under 350.

Thank you!

And we'd like to be within 45 minutes of Warsaw without being in a big city.

Mayberry,Indiana? that sounds like it would be a good fit for you the only thing i am unsure about is the schools. It is like 10 to 15 minutes southeast of Lafayette on Indiana 38

[-RAC-]

also look at North Webster. It is where I grew up and sort of missing the area more and more.