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Originally Posted by Sweetardnas1885
We are looking to move (hopefully before this Christmas) to a new place. We are looking at poss. moving to the Ft. Wayne, Indiana area. We are looking for a smaller town with a home town feel of sorts. We don't want anything too terribly small. We'd like to be within 20-30 minutes of a WalMart. We need a dog friendly/family friendly town. We are also looking for atleast 5 acres to build a home on or such land with a nice pre-existing home (we have Siberian Huskies who need room to run). Can anyone give me any info on any towns that may fit the bill.
Also if anyone has any info on gas prices, grocery prices, property taxes, any type of animal related taxes, job market, housing market, vet clinics in such areas...etc; I'd love to have this info too!
Let the knowledge flow! 
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Originally Posted by domergurl
From our site, here are some small towns near Fort Wayne:
Nearest cities: New Haven, IN (7.3 miles ), Huntertown, IN (10.7 miles ), Leo-Cedarville, IN (12.1 miles ), Ossian, IN (14.0 miles ), Grabill, IN (14.2 miles ), Zanesville, IN (15.5 miles ), Churubusco, IN (17.0 miles ), Garrett, IN (18.6 miles ).
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Well domer hit the nail on the head with the surrounding cities.
Gas prices fluctuate as they do anywhere else, and up here they're hovering around the 2.95 mark in New Haven.
New Haven is a town of about 12k people, fairly small downtown with railroad tracks through town. Plenty of open land on the south side, with subdivisions going up off landin road to the north (Landin is closed for right now I think they're widening the bridge over the creek).
A short trip north to IN37 in Ft Wayne off I469 will net you a Meijer, Walmart, Menards, steak n shake, and various stores in various strip malls. I just went up there today, it's maybe 20 minutes at 74 mph.
If you want to stay close to fort wayne then New haven, Huntertown, Leo-Cedarville are your best bets. I know a lot of about New haven because I grew up and have just bought a house in the city.
Grocery prices, well everythings always on sale at either Scott's or Krogers. (Kroger just bought out the Scotts chain, all 28 stores).
Property taxes inside new haven will range depending on your mortgage, mine are fairly expensive because of the dumbass (sorry for cursing) administration and mayor we have here right now.