NW Indiana's border limits (Gary, Hammond: places to live, prices, moving)

[WildWestDude]

Originally Posted by domergurl

Well here's a monkey wrench!

Calumet Region

I never thought that the term "Region" stemmed from "Calumet Region"
Never associated Calumet with the description of the Region.
In other words I thought it was only called the Region for lack of better words
Am I wrong?

[WildWestDude]

Here's what Wikipedia sais:

"Northwest Indiana, also known as The Calumet Region, or just The Region, comprises Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, and Jasper counties in Indiana".

these counties....."............are included in the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City Combined Statistical Area, the broadest of the census defined Metropolitan definitions"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Indiana

Northwest Indiana

[Second Hand Rose]

What is Marshall county considered NW? I would like to know what it is like in Plymouth Indiana.

[domergurl]

Originally Posted by Second Hand Rose

What is Marshall county considered NW? I would like to know what it is like in Plymouth Indiana.

Marshall County native here ... it's considered Michiana with it's proximity to Michigan. Plymouth is a nice small town. It's the county seat for Marshall County. The schools are good and it's in a good location if you need to get to South Bend or Indianapolis via 31, which will be even better once 31 gets upgraded all the way to Indy. It's also easy to get to NW Indiana and Chicago via US 30 going east west.

[rayneinspain]

Originally Posted by missteacherlady

588-2300-EMPIIIIIIIRE.... you're crazy for this one LOL... but so true!! (I have this in my head now... thanks LOL)

I'm from the Seattle area, and we were bombarded by the same commercial. It's been national for a very long time.

[artemis]

Originally Posted by Second Hand Rose

What is Marshall county considered NW? I would like to know what it is like in Plymouth Indiana.

The Plymouth area is quite nice. We go there every Labor Day weekend for their "Blueberry Festival".

[Naptowner]

I went to elementary through high school in Elkhart County, definitely not in the region but fairly close, just the next county east of South Bend. I didn't hear the term the Region until I went to IU, and I only heard it from people from the region. To me, and maybe it was just these individuals, it seemed a little phony at the time. It was as though no one wanted to admit they weren't really from Chicago. Which is a lot cooler thing to say than that you are from some suburb an hour and a half away from Chicago.

[domergurl]

I grew up in the next county south of South Bend and I too didn't hear the term "the region" or "region rat" until college and it was from high school classmates thinking they were cool spouting off a new term. Our area was called Michiana.

[artemis]

Originally Posted by Naptowner

I went to elementary through high school in Elkhart County, definitely not in the region but fairly close, just the next county east of South Bend. I didn't hear the term the Region until I went to IU, and I only heard it from people from the region. To me, and maybe it was just these individuals, it seemed a little phony at the time. It was as though no one wanted to admit they weren't really from Chicago. Which is a lot cooler thing to say than that you are from some suburb an hour and a half away from Chicago.

Well, I wasn't an hour and a half away from Chicago. I grew up about 15 miles South of the Loop.

Nothing phony about it. I guess you'd have to be from the Region to get it.

:-)

[Mr.Robo]

Ok, The term Region Rat derives from the lake county area because the little calumet river flows thru and the term "Rat" from the old steel mill term "Millrat" which derives from the huge rat infestations decades ago and the size of them in the steelmills along northern Indiana. Hence a union steelworker employee was a "millrat" and people who lived in a area that was around steel mills were coined region rats just because of the proximity to the mills which helped form the area as we know it and funded the local economies as well as workers and ever support companies and businesses to the mills. We are shunned by the rest of the state of Indiana and made fun of from Chicagoans who think we are still the same as "Indiana Bumpkins" so since we are basically on our own, we have a thick skin and call ourselves Region rats since we fit in nowhere but in our "Region"