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Old 03-23-2012, 10:32 PM
 
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I am starting a new job in Indiapolis in 2 weeks! I'm planning on living downtown, and I'm working uptown.

What's the dating scene like downtown? I'm from Vermont, and I've also lived in NYC so I've done small-town and big city dating. I like intelligent, nerdy professionals. What are the demographics like?
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Old 03-24-2012, 12:16 AM
 
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I am starting a new job in Indiapolis in 2 weeks! I'm planning on living downtown, and I'm working uptown.

What's the dating scene like downtown? I'm from Vermont, and I've also lived in NYC so I've done small-town and big city dating. I like intelligent, nerdy professionals. What are the demographics like?
With a quote like this, I'm assuming you're a woman. Purdue has a great engineering school and is a little up the highway and Indiana has a great business school and is a little down the highway. That might pipe some nerds into Indy. I think that you will find much friendlier people there than you will in either Vermont or NYC. However, you will be making a trade-off in the natural beauty or interesting cityscape department.
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Old 03-27-2012, 07:40 PM
 
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I never lived downtown and only knew of IUPUI students that lived downtown, but the dating scene is decent in certain pockets. I know a lot of young professionals live in the castelton area. You mostly get a lot of kids who just graduated from Indiana colleges that move to Indy. There aren't really a lot of urban neighborhoods like in the larger cities where certain types of people live. I didn't see a lot of intelligent nerdy professionals either. If your talking hipsters, then Indy definitely doesn't have that.
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Old 03-27-2012, 07:52 PM
 
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If your talking hipsters, then Indy definitely doesn't have that.
There are hipsters all over the place. Its by no means Brooklyn, but there are a lot.
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Old 03-28-2012, 06:07 PM
 
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[/quote]There are hipsters all over the place. Its by no means Brooklyn, but there are a lot.[/quote]

What would you guys define as a hipster? I grew up in the northeast, about 40 minutes outside of NYC and have spent a lot of time in NYC. Also I just moved here 3 weeks ago from DFW, I was in Texas for 3 weeks. I've seen that term thrown around a lot in this forum...

As far as a dating scene for young professionals, I'll be able to comment in a couple weeks. But some early observations are that a lot of people are coupled up at bars and even at the gym. Someone mentioned to me checking out Indy hub which is a networking group for young professionals, they meet the 2nd Wednesday every month at the Slippery Noodle, might be worth a shot.. I'm currently living downtown..
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Old 04-02-2012, 07:28 PM
 
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Ugh, I hate hipsters. Nerdy does not equal hipster. When I think of hipster, I think of pasty, awkward, ambiguously employed, and wearing skinny pants.

I just got here yesterday, starting the job on Wednesday, looking at apartments downtown this week.
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Old 04-03-2012, 07:03 AM
 
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^^^I'm originally from Connecticut and lived in Indy for a while in the 1990's.

I don't blame you for hating Hipsters. Flavor of the month crowd. I don't recall running into many Nerdy people in Indy. I knew a lot during my school years in CT and even some of my friends were Nerds. Not sure about how to find them in Indy though. My best advice would be to hang out at local libraries and perhaps at college libraries to see if you can make some friends. Another idea would be to check to see if the local colleges and universities have clubs devoted to "nerdy" activities and then enroll, take a class and join the club.
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Old 04-05-2012, 02:15 PM
 
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Join "Occupy Indy" Plenty of nerds, hippies, and bearded and unbathed folk.
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Old 04-05-2012, 02:42 PM
 
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Join "Occupy Indy" Plenty of nerds, hippies, and bearded and unbathed folk.
like 5 people in that movement LOL
Thats another reason i love Indy
The national occupy movement forgot the nations 11th largest city.
Or maybe its just people in Indianapolis have work to get too instead of sitting around crying about corporations.
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Old 04-05-2012, 08:25 PM
 
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like 5 people in that movement LOL
Thats another reason i love Indy
The national occupy movement forgot the nations 11th largest city.
Or maybe its just people in Indianapolis have work to get too instead of sitting around crying about corporations.
Indys metro area is much lower in the size rankings. We are 11th because of how we set the city limits. Indiana is also conservative so there is less support.
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