Life in Zionsville Indiana (Indianapolis, Muncie: 2015, apartment complexes, condos)

[jaybeesan]

We live in this quaint and charming village now. It exemplifies life in the slow lane. It has a Disneyland quality to it. The schools are very highly rated which makes it a great place to raise children. It's rated nationally as one of the safest towns in the USA. It appeals to retirees, also. All said, it's defined as an enclave for the wealthy with homes starting at approx. $300K. We call it the Scottsdale of the Midwest. (Keep in mind that Scottsdale Arizona residents jokingly call their city Snottsdale).
The towns of Zionsville and Whitestown run together with some of the services being handles jointly. Growth took off after the recovery from the mortgage meltdown mess, in 2008-2009, and it seems to be controlled well. There are new upscale apartment complexes at affordable rates which diversifies the area. A couple of new housing communities make for livability because it would have been hard to move here otherwise since residents move here and stay for a lifetime. New shopping and restaurants have sprung up, making a trek out of the village less necessary. Easy access and a fast 20 minute drive down the 65 freeway into downtown Indianapolis makes for employment and entertainment options. If you want time in the country, drive less than two miles to the west across the 65 freeway and you are in wide open land consisting of farms and cornfields so you can escape city life easily. Zionsville is for people who crave that 1950s feeling and for city dwellers who want a slower pace.

[flamadiddle]

Brought to you by the Zionsville Chamber of Commerce.

j/k, I agree and we almost moved to Zionsville a year ago. Just couldn't find a home we liked so we ended up back in the Chicago burbs.

[ischyros]

Huh. You really have changed your tune in the last 4 and a half years.

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Then you complained about Indianapolis not being great for singles. You complained that the suburbs were surrounded by cornfields. You complained it being either too hot or too cold. You complained that it's not an exciting, vibrant city. All this but you love Zionsville?

[W & C]

Zionsville - for those who crave the 1950s !!

[Lily55]

Do you have any nice condos there in Zionsville?
Or, around that area??

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

I never use to hear too much about Zionsville. When I was living in Muncie back in the Mid 60's and early 70's, the only thing I knew about Zionsville was that it came after Yorktown alphabetically in the Indiana cities and towns index of state road maps you use to be able to get for free at the gas stations. I think they mighta been the last 2 cities listed. Neither town was even considered suburbs back then. They were independent small towns out in the country. For a long time, both were barely over a thousand people. Both were little agricultural country towns. 4H and the FFA was very popular organizations at Yorktown HS, I'm sure it was the same at Zionsville, too. I don't think Zionsville really got popular until the 80's. The 1st and only time I went to Zionsville was in the early 2000's and I thought it was one of the nicest little towns I'd ever been to. It looked old and new at the same time. It was very unique and clean looking town. If I was gonna live in Indiana, after Muncie, Zionsville is where I think I might like to live. But, I doubt I could ever afford to live in Zionsville unless there are some sections of town that would allow a mobile home on maybe a half acre of land inside Zionsville City Limits but I would almost bet it to be a city that pretty much bans mobile homes.

[jeffrow1]

Oddly enough Zionsville had a Rolls Royce dealer back in the 70's.

[Northwest Indiana]

Originally Posted by jeffrow1

Oddly enough Zionsville had a Rolls Royce dealer back in the 70's.

Technically they still do! When Rolls-Royce and Bentley split in 2003, the dealership had to choose which direction to go. I just found this interesting article as well:

Still rolling: Bentley dealership finds niche in Zionsville

[MortonR]

Originally Posted by jeffrow1

Oddly enough Zionsville had a Rolls Royce dealer back in the 70's.

It was across the street from my business. I used to wander over and talk to the employees on a regular basis, as they were never terribly busy.

I always found it a bit odd.

RM

[jeffrow1]

I worked for Rolls many years ago and had reason to call on this point although really I just wanted to meet the owner, Hermann Albers. He was quite well known in the Rolls Royce family for his remarkable memory and could rattle off the chassis number of a car from Chicago that he serviced 5 years earlier from memory. I had read an article about passion for organization that commented that every lightswitch and receptacle plate in his facility had the screws precisely aligned in the same direction. When I toured his shop I found myself looking at every plate.... yup sure enough.