Living in the Kentucky VS Indiana side of Greater Louisville Metro Area (Lexington: house)

[Vinny536]

Hello all!

We recently visited the Louisville area for some job interviews. My wife has accepted a position in the St. Matthews area. We're looking for housing, preferably a house with some land, but we're struggling to determine if living in Indiana and commuting would be acceptable.

Does anyone make a similar commute? Google maps shows a reasonable drive, but I don't recall seeing many Indiana plates in Louisville. I also don't recall talking to anyone that lived across the river.

Besides commute time, are there other disadvantages to living in Indiana?

[kytoaz]

Property taxes are higher and crossing a bridge twice a day can be a pain.

[gemstone1]

Thousands of folks commute from IN to Louisville...I did 60 miles one way for years....because like you, we wanted acreage.

I went to downtown LSVL from Scottsburg IN (Lexington actually), so I used I-65 and the 2nd Street bridge. With a St Matthews destination, you'd be better off looking along hiway 3 between Charlestown and Lexington, or hiway 62 between Charlestown and Madison, and use the new east end bridge. Scott County has a well established wireless broadband network that reached me in Lexington....once that happened, I worked from home. Madison is a neat river town, but that commute would be tough....it's all about choices and compromise.

You should also look east of LSVL, lots of rural property, but more pricey than IN.

Good Luck
Gemstone1

[turkeydance]

please carry on...i mistakenly thought this was basketball...oh well.

[censusdata]

Indiana side has much cheaper housing and less traffic. It also lacks amenities like best hospitals, parks, largest employers. In general IN has a more rural blue collar feel to it. Best thing about commute from IN to KY is it goes against heaviest traffic flow. Downtown interchange being rebuilt massively helped. It generally takes me 30 minutes to get from central New Albany to airport area.

[gemstone1]

"Best thing about commute from IN to KY is it goes against heaviest traffic flow" huh ?

Not when I lived there, what has changed other than the new bridge ? So. IN is still a bedroom community for LSVL, the major employers are still in KY, so at commute time, how is the IN commuter going against the heaviest traffic flow ?

Regards
Gemstone1

[censusdata]

Originally Posted by gemstone1

"Best thing about commute from IN to KY is it goes against heaviest traffic flow" huh ?

Not when I lived there, what has changed other than the new bridge ? So. IN is still a bedroom community for LSVL, the major employers are still in KY, so at commute time, how is the IN commuter going against the heaviest traffic flow ?

Regards
Gemstone1

90% of metro area population is in KY. Even with many IN people working in KY the heaviest traffic is coming from eastern and suburbs. I never hit slowed traffic coming in on 64 until I come across traffic from east end coming south on 65.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by censusdata

90% of metro area population is in KY. Even with many IN people working in KY the heaviest traffic is coming from eastern and suburbs. I never hit slowed traffic coming in on 64 until I come across traffic from east end coming south on 65.

I am not sure that stat is accurate at all. There are around 300k people living in the IN side of the metro area. For a metro at 1.3 million, that's a good percentage. There is more to S. Indiana than meets the eye as far as Louisville's IN suburbs

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

The trick to beating rush hour traffic is to live between your job and downtown. In the morning, you'll be driving away from town when most everybody else is driving towards town, and after work, you'll be heading towards town when most everybody else is driving away from town. That's how I did it when I lived in Houston, I worked in Sugarland and lived in Southwest Houston, about half way between downtown Houston and the factory I worked at in Sugarland. I never got caught in any of those legendary rush hour Houston traffic jams. I'd get off work at 2:00 in the afternoon and be home by 2:30, just in time to watch rerums of Mighty Mouse.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by Ivory Lee Spurlock

The trick to beating rush hour traffic is to live between your job and downtown. In the morning, you'll be driving away from town when most everybody else is driving towards town, and after work, you'll be heading towards town when most everybody else is driving away from town. That's how I did it when I lived in Houston, I worked in Sugarland and lived in Southwest Houston, about half way between downtown Houston and the factory I worked at in Sugarland. I never got caught in any of those legendary rush hour Houston traffic jams. I'd get off work at 2:00 in the afternoon and be home by 2:30, just in time to watch rerums of Mighty Mouse.

Agreed! I strongly advocate for "reverse commuting."