Is Gary safe enough? (Portage, Chesterton: sales, apartment, rent)

[FireMan2008]

Hey, take it from Capt. Dan seriously! Im originally from East Oakland (VERY BAD!!) and moved to Gary at age 14 (for 10 years), and let me tell you, Oakland is where its at!! I definately would not do it. At least try like Munster, or even Chi (anywhere), but I WOULD NOT do Gary! Thank God Im outta there!

[americanemocouple]

Don't move to Whiting.. We're in the "robertsdale" part and my fiance's car was broken into and they stole EVERYTHING in it, they should have just taken the whole car instead of leaving us with insurance to deal with. Also, there was a truck four houses down that was broken into.. They stole all of his work toosl...We're moving in the next two years (after we get married next year) to Munster, schererville or highland.

[artemis]

Robertsdale is part of Hammond.

[artemis]

Hammond Streets Placement and Patterns


**The Robertsdale/Roby areas of Hammond also took part in naming some of their streets after their founding families as well. Here are a few prime examples - Burton Court - named for W. M. Burton, a chemist at Standard Oil Company. Atchison Avenue - named after Robert Atchison, early area resident. Warick Avenue - named for W. E. Warick, a plant supervisor at Standard Oil Company. Caroline Avenue - named for Mrs. Jacob Forsythe, sister of George Clark.**

[americanemocouple]

cool....

Still if I would have known what type of **** I would experience here I would have chose Munster... and not Robertsdale... a part of hammond.

[americanemocouple]

p.s.

46394 last time I checked was a whiting zip code. Which would be our zip code.

[artemis]

Yes, the US Postal Service routes Robertsdale's mail thru the Whiting Post Office, but Robertsdale is still part of Hammond.

[domergurl]

Originally Posted by americanemocouple

p.s.

46394 last time I checked was a whiting zip code. Which would be our zip code.

I thought you guys were happy when you moved to Whiting ... not so???

[RegionAire]

Maybe if you own a tank or some sort of troop carrier. Seriously, and I don't mean any offense, but Gary is not a safe community...especially for someone who has no bearings in the area. Maybe someday Gary will be an inviting place (I personally think it's a latent gold-mine), but not yet. Please take one of the other poster's advice and either get a place in Chicago (there are some reasonably inexpensive areas) or in Whiting/Hammond if money is your concern. There are safer ways to conserve your money without inviting personal disaster.

[pcg]

To the OP. Have you done any research on the city of Gary? It has in the past had the honors of being murder capital of the country. Miller is the best part of the city, but still in the city.

Racism is alive and well in Gary. If you are black you will have a better chance of survival than any other race. If you are not black I would suggest you look elsewhere.