Moving from NY - Please Help!!! (New Albany, Jeffersonville: transplants, rent, crime)

[ler0719]

Hello. My name is Lili. Me and my husband Dan are looking tomove to IN or KY with out 21 month old son. We currently live in Long Island, NY and rent a 2 bedroom house for $1450 per month and utilities are extra. With oil, electric and water we pay about $1700 per month and this is getting to be way too much. With home prices averaging $350,000 and taxes averaging $7000 per year here on Long Island it is impossible for us to buy a house here and the crime is horrible. I wanted to know about areas near Louisville.

See, originally we were looking to move to KY but the homes seem like you get more for your money in IN. I would probably work in Louisville since I see more jobs there. Does anyone have info in this area of Southern Indiana...I have been looking at Scott, Floyd and Clark County? I have looked online at houses in Scottsburg, Jeffersonville, Palmyra, Charlestown, Memohis, Clarksville, Corydon and Sellersburg. Are any towns much better on the list than others? We are looking for good schools and a nice town feel. We would like a town that is not too big, with nice curb appeal where our son can actually ride a bike when he gets a little older. I am 26 and Dan is 37 and we want a nice family oriented town. We like to garden and just spend time with our son. Dan is an electrician and I am an executive assisant. How is the job outlook in this area?

Thank you so much for the info. I did so much investigating into KY but I think IN is really for us now. I thought I was so sure that I booked a trip at the end of May to Louisville but now I will be mostly checking out Southern Indiana. Thank you so much.

[domergurl]

Floyd's Knobs has some of the best schools in the state. We have good friends who work in Louisville (Loo-A-Vull btw) and live in New Albany. They really like it after having lived in and around Chicago.

Best of luck to you. Let us know if we can be of any more help.

[stx12499]

I think you will love Louisville and its Indiana suburbs. Jeffersonville is probably the most sizable of all the Indiana towns that still feels like a nice small town where everyone knows your name. Parts of it have a distinct suburban feel, and serve as a bedroom community to Louisville. The area has all the shopping and dining amenities you need in Clarksville nearby, and you are minutes away from downtown Louisville which is slowly transforming itself in to one of the top downtowns in the country for its size. New Albany is the biggest Indiana suburba, and has some nice old homes for cheap although it is a bit run down (but not at all dangerous) in parts. Its just a really old town built on river boat money from the days of the "wild west" of the 1850's riverboat era.

Floyds Knobs is the most exclusive area, just outside New Albany, and probably has the best schools and the most rural/suburban feel. Sellersburg feels more like its own small town than a suburb, and it is still within minutes of downtown, but I have found this area does not really get a lot of transplants.

Also, do not overlook the city of Louisville and even its KY suburbs. Please PM me with any questions. Also, you will get more responses in the KY forum. As a moderator, I have been pushing for Louisville's Indiana suburbs to be included in the KY/Louisville forum, since they are really just part of Louisville in another state, even though many locals do not view it that way. If you look on a map or economically, you can see that Louisville and S. Indiana are one, and that S. Indiana suburbs are similar in ways to KY ones, although you are right that they are often (but not always) cheaper.

[ler0719]

I would like to know which schools in Southern Indiana are best? That is why we wanted to move to Oldham County in KY because their schools are so well talked about. I would like a very safe neighborhood with wonderful schools...is this possible in Southern Indiana? Thank you so much.

[ler0719]

Just bumping this to see if anyone can help me. Thank you.

[domergurl]

Didn't you read my post???

http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/SEARC....cfm?corp=2400

http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/SEARCH/s3.cfm

[arossi]

For another good resource, check out the website: greatschools.net

You can search for schools by city, county or school district.

[ler0719]

Thank you very much for the great graphs!!!

[mhogan10010]

LER0719

The good thing about moving to Southern Indiana instead of Louisville proper, is that your friends back on Long Island will be able to call you a Midwesterner but not a hillbilly.
I had good friends who relocated from Michigan (where I grew up) to Louisville (due to work). They generally liked there and stayed until they retired and moved to Arizona.
You may be making the best move for your family, but just don't expect it to be anything like New York. On the Louisville side, you will have to get used to plenty of Yankee jabs. Join in or you will be miserable. I lived in NC for 12 years and just couldn't ever hate the North as much as they all seemed to.
Thats how I ended up in NYC.
Good luck.

[sunchaser]

My daughter moved to Jeffersonville last may 2006. She commutes to Louisville for work. She loves it . She shares with us that the cost of living and wages are better than vermont. Housing is much less expensive as well. There is much more to do also and everyone is so friendly and open. Vermonts young people are our greatest export because of our high cost of living, college cost and lack of opportunity for them. I miss her very much but glad that she has the best of both worlds, great town and the city so close. As for the yankee quips, she has not had any. It is as if she was from there all along. It could just be her zestful personality that touches everyone that she meets.

She sent us a video of Kentucky Thunder it was beautiful and looked like fun.

Good Luck I hope this helps