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Old 03-05-2008, 09:02 AM
 
Location: westfield
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We moved back to the area 2 years ago after being away 30 years...my hubby is from New York and I was raised on the north east side...well the options of moving to that area was out. We first looked at schools and like the Hamilton county schools. I have a sister who lives in Carmel who married a Carmelite...she really wanted me to move to Carmel, but my Dad said I would hate the uppity people there. I have a sister who lives in Noblesville and she had me look at houses there, but my sister from Carmel said I would hate the rednecks in Nobletucky. So we moved to Westfield where the UPPITY REDNECKS lives. I am in Yuppy Hell...we moved into a subdivision from the country in North Carolina. But we needed a house that would accomadate my husband and I, a grandson we adopted and my daughter and her 3 children. She moved out 6 months after we bought the house...of course. Wish we could sell and move into one of those old 60-70s subdivisions with no HOA.
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Old 03-28-2009, 06:39 PM
 
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Carmel has strict ordinance because it is a nice place and we tent to keep it that way! We pay a higher price because it is nice and that is the lifestyle that most desire to live.
Im not being mean, its just Carmel is a nice place and you can ask anyone that lives here, it is not as stuck up as people WHO DO NOT LIVE IN CARMEL would say.
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Old 03-28-2009, 07:33 PM
 
Location: Western Hoosierland
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Carmel has strict ordinance because it is a nice place and we tent to keep it that way! We pay a higher price because it is nice and that is the lifestyle that most desire to live.
Im not being mean, its just Carmel is a nice place and you can ask anyone that lives here, it is not as stuck up as people WHO DO NOT LIVE IN CARMEL would say.


Plainfield is the same way. We dont exactly have tons of $M houses like Carmel but we do have alot of them.
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Old 03-29-2009, 12:39 PM
 
Location: Plainfield
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We moved back to the area 2 my sister from Carmel said I would hate the rednecks in Nobletucky. So we moved to Westfield where the UPPITY REDNECKS lives. I am in Yuppy Hell...we moved into a subdivision from the country in North Carolina.
Just so you're aware, yuppies come in all types... liberals and conservatives. IMO there are many more yuppy liberals than yuppy conservatives (ie. rednecks).
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Old 03-29-2009, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Plainfield
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Carmel has strict ordinance because it is a nice place and we tend to keep it that way! We pay a higher price because it is nice and that is the lifestyle that most desire to live.
Im not being mean, its just Carmel is a nice place and you can ask anyone that lives here, it is not as stuck up as people WHO DO NOT LIVE IN CARMEL would say.
Good points.
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Old 08-20-2012, 05:28 PM
 
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Exclamation Best Places to Live 2012

CARMEL IS #1!

Congrats to the city!

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Old 08-21-2012, 09:06 AM
 
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I feel so proud to be from Carmel and miss it dearly. We moved away a few years ago to San Antonio due to my wife's job at Grissom ending. We cannot wait to move back home where people are friendly and I don't have to look at gang taggings and litter blowing around.
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Old 08-22-2012, 02:46 AM
 
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Before, I begin I do not mean to offend anyone and anything I say here is meant as a generalization thus not aimed to anyone reading or commenting. Here it goes: I don't get the appeal of Carmel. I just might be me. I am white guy from in 20s with a progressive bent from Terre Haute. As I graduating from ISU (Indiana State) a few years ago, I developed a theory of the most common dream of my friends from high school and college: "graduate from college, get a job in Indianapolis, get married, move to Carmel and have babies." Although, I have not spent all that time in Carmel, the impression I have always got it is very suburban, very upper-middle class, very white and very Republican (and there is nothing wrong with any of that). Is it just me?
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Old 08-22-2012, 07:33 AM
 
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Before, I begin I do not mean to offend anyone and anything I say here is meant as a generalization thus not aimed to anyone reading or commenting. Here it goes: I don't get the appeal of Carmel. I just might be me. I am white guy from in 20s with a progressive bent from Terre Haute. As I graduating from ISU (Indiana State) a few years ago, I developed a theory of the most common dream of my friends from high school and college: "graduate from college, get a job in Indianapolis, get married, move to Carmel and have babies." Although, I have not spent all that time in Carmel, the impression I have always got it is very suburban, very upper-middle class, very white and very Republican (and there is nothing wrong with any of that). Is it just me?
No, while the very upper class might be misconstrued. There are plenty of middle class cookie cutters in Carmel.
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Old 08-22-2012, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Fishers, IN
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No, while the very upper class might be misconstrued. There are plenty of middle class cookie cutters in Carmel.
I think one of the nice things about Carmel is that while there are plenty of these middle class cookie cutter neighborhoods, there is also a large number of older homes, at least in the more central part of the city, and by older I mean 70s and 80s. I can't say the same thing about Fishers. Carmel at least has some community feeling to it with the Art & Design district and such. Fishers just feels like a crapload of homes and very little else. And this is from someone that loves living in Fishers!
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