Smaller towns outside of Ft. Wayne???

[wendyjane]

If I had to live near Ft. Wayne, I would choose Huntington IN (hometown of Dan Qualye) which I think is one of the cutest small towns in the whole state. Beautiful drive to get there down Rt. 5 coming north from Rt. 30. Good luck!

[JamesinFW]

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!

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 ).

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.

[lizbitz]

Well, I just relocated here from Kalamazoo, Michigan. My DH and I moved to Garrett, and I've got to say that we love it! He actually works in Auburn, across I-69. Our location puts us within 20 minutes, a little longer if going deeper into FW, of anything we could need that's not here. We're only 5 minutes from Walmart. The city of Garrett has a population of under 6,000 and it's fairly quiet, at least in our neighborhood. The cost of housing seems to be much lower than in Kalamazoo, but we're renting for now. The town pretty much closes at 9 p.m. but again, we're close enough to everything else it doesn't matter much.

[b2005miller]

I suggest Garrett. I've lived here now for about 3 years. I have 2 dogs and 2 cats. Garrett is a small, layed back town. It has a 4 star school,3 gas stations, a vet's office, a grocery store, a dollar store, a movie gallery, a car wash, a pizza place, a couple of restaurants and banks, 2 car sales places, a city pool, some nice parks, a hardware store, a tattoo shop, a post office, a movie theatre, a dentist, tan and hair places, and a laundromat. It is a bout 10 minutes from a Wal-Mart (in Auburn). It is about 30-40 minutes from a mall (in Fort Wayne). Sorry don't really know the prices of things, I don't pay the bills.

[ANewChapter]

Don't know if you figured anything out yet, but I used to live in the Fort Wayne area. My parents worked at the GM plant in Fort Wayne and we lived in Bluffton for a while and then moved to North Manchester which both are in Wells county. They are both nice little towns.

[domergurl]

As a graduate of Manchester College in North Funchester, I can assure you that North Manchester is in fact, in Wabash County.