Posted: 6/6/2007 7:00:35 PM EDT
| I thought I would give everyone a heads up. I work at about 71st and Shadeland. Today a young black male in a black Monte Carlo robbed the auto window repair man with a gun to his head this morning in our parking lot. Keep on your toes! |
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Damn, I am moving right now but basically lived in that area since 91, I worked in that office park, Shadeland Station, for 5 years. Problem with that area is it is right off the interstate, easy access on and off, hence the reason it became a national gay hook up spot at the bottom of the hill. I use to pull in to the parking lot, start taking pictures and writting down license plate numbers just to run people off. It may not be truly rural, but I like being outside 465 when I woke up today, done moving by end of the month and now I am 30 miles closer to Southern Indiana. |
Wow, 30 m iles south huh, where are you moving to? |
The pre-gateway to the "Gateway to Southern Indiana"...............AKA just south of 465 between hwy 67 and hwy 37. Plus that 30 miles is almost all 465 so I have Indy to my back when I get up and head south. Plus friends with land in Martinsville and Moresville. You know, you just get use to driving, but having 30 miles of city out of the way is a nice feeling. I may get in some more bird hunting this fall because of it. Plus I am 50 yards from a pond and open area to train my Lab on and will most likely get some local access to land I can walk to and use her dummy launcher on. If not, I drive 15 minutes to either of my friends farms. God forbid you set off a .22 blank in the city to launch a training dummy for your dog. Then of course, I buy my own land. I am just renting for now. |
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Nice, only reason I ask is that I have a 33 mile one way ride to work. You are right about getting used to the drive. I have been doing it for over 10 years and it doesn't seem that bad. It would be MUCH better for me financially to move north, but I just couldn't do it. |
I liked growing up in Indy so much I live in Bloomington. While Btown is not perfect, it is NO Indy. The biggest crimes we get are from Indy transplants. Oh, and I never travel to Indy with less than a primary and backup firearm. It was never a safe place, but it is amazing how much worse a place can get over a couple of decades... |
Indy has its unsafe spots just like every other city. For the most part you are safe in Indy but there are plenty of places where you should probably not wander through. Mainly this would be the ghetto area's... Haughville, Hill Side, Brookside, Mars Hill, 42nd and Post area, Brightwood, and the list could go on. I work at Allison Transmission which is right outside of Haughville, I personally have never had any problems, but I also never let my guard down thinking it will never happen. The case with the Castleton area has been a strange one. I moved from the Eastside (30th and Mitthoffer area) in 1999 to the north side and I lived there up until last year. I noticed that the crime rate was getting out of hand in that area and I no longer felt safe. The whole atmosphere of that area seem to change within a 2 year span. I never had a problem myself, but I do have a family that I need to protect the best I can. Crime is all over the place. Just some area's don't have as much severe crimes like stabbings, shootings, robberies, drug sells, etc. This is just a reminder that we all have to be careful out there! |
Yeah, when I lived in Los Angeles and Atlanta you got use to the drive times. Indy is great by comparison. Super 70 added about 10 miles to my morning drive. I still go home on 70 but my drive is about the same as yours one way. A lot less gas money going in the Truck tank now! I lived near 10th and Emerson, got to where undercover cops were making buys across the street from me. Moved to NE side and it is great oveall but things are changin. 2 years ago on the west side my GF's apartment complex chnaged ownership and went section 8, they told no one and in months it turned into a shooting gallery. Future death of NE side......................when they put in public transportaion/mass transit. It is loud when the one fair train runs for two weeks. Imagine multiple high speed trains running 24/7. Property values there will tank. Some nice streets already have problems selling as people are savy enough to know those nearby tracks mean trouble. Sorry to drone on, 5 days and I am on vacation in my old stomping grounds, the headwaters of the Ol Miss. Now that is rural. |