Anonymous
02/19/2023 08:31
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They have amazing schools there, especially the high school. 10/10s at all levels. They’ve recently gone viral with people mind blown how awesome their high school looks:
It’s a great place to live. DMV and the elitist coast do not have a monopoly on quality of life and good schools. It’s also way more affordable to live out there.
Prefer this over all the equity diversity crap
-asain
Prefer what? An all white rich school? If you are Asian they don’t want you. Have you been to the Midwest. Lol!
My Asian in-laws live in Carmel. Roughly 30% of the high school in Carmel is non-white.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 08:28
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Its also an incredibly racist area
OP said the student body "looks respectful" so they'd fit right in.
“Good people”
Anonymous
02/19/2023 08:21
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They have amazing schools there, especially the high school. 10/10s at all levels. They’ve recently gone viral with people mind blown how awesome their high school looks:
It’s a great place to live. DMV and the elitist coast do not have a monopoly on quality of life and good schools. It’s also way more affordable to live out there.
Prefer this over all the equity diversity crap
-asain
Prefer what? An all white rich school? If you are Asian they don’t want you. Have you been to the Midwest. Lol!
Anonymous
02/19/2023 08:09
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:I lived as an adult with my family in one of the towns mentioned earlier. We didn't hate it, but we were happy to leave.
For us, the negatives for that area: very conservative, christian, provincial communities. Schools were very traditional, white and programs were subtly religion-based rather than science-based, very little tolerance for thinking different; not much to see or do as far as day trips to historical, interesting or scenic areas.
The good parts: safe, clean communities; strong (in a very conventional way) schools; people were friendly and fun (as long as you suppressed any non-conformity); affordable housing; easy, non-stressful living compared to the DMV area. Very stepfordish compared to other areas I lived (DMV, southwest, Chicago).
The kind of place that would produce Mike Pence, for example.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 08:06
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Its also an incredibly racist area
OP said the student body "looks respectful" so they'd fit right in.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 07:56
Subject: Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anyone have first hand experiences
Houses are only 1m-2m
Public schools are all 10 and the student body looks respectful and polite
Makes our McLean area and school look like trash despite it being 2x more. We live in a. 4m home.
Is a .4m home = $400,000 home?
Sorry no, we live in a 4million dollar McLean home
Is it true McLean homes do not have bathroom exhaust fans?
Anonymous
02/19/2023 07:20
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The high school has 5000 kids and there are kids who have 22 mile bus rides to it.
And takes 30 minutes to drive it
My high school was 1 mile from my house and I never had a car.
Wow amazing. Why doesn’t everyone just do this
Because they’re too scared of minorities to live within cities or dense suburbs.
I think you missed the point. I wasn’t aware we could all just move within walking distance if a high school
Most people could. But they would rather self-segregate into the exburbs like Carmel. Sorry you were unaware of that; you’re not now.
Most people just want good schools and aren’t self loathing which would make them think twice about it, as much as you would want them to be anyways.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 07:18
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
I lived as an adult with my family in one of the towns mentioned earlier. We didn't hate it, but we were happy to leave.
For us, the negatives for that area: very conservative, christian, provincial communities. Schools were very traditional, white and programs were subtly religion-based rather than science-based, very little tolerance for thinking different; not much to see or do as far as day trips to historical, interesting or scenic areas.
The good parts: safe, clean communities; strong (in a very conventional way) schools; people were friendly and fun (as long as you suppressed any non-conformity); affordable housing; easy, non-stressful living compared to the DMV area. Very stepfordish compared to other areas I lived (DMV, southwest, Chicago).
For us, the negatives for that area: very conservative, christian, provincial communities. Schools were very traditional, white and programs were subtly religion-based rather than science-based, very little tolerance for thinking different; not much to see or do as far as day trips to historical, interesting or scenic areas.
The good parts: safe, clean communities; strong (in a very conventional way) schools; people were friendly and fun (as long as you suppressed any non-conformity); affordable housing; easy, non-stressful living compared to the DMV area. Very stepfordish compared to other areas I lived (DMV, southwest, Chicago).
Anonymous
02/19/2023 07:17
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:
You do realize that the population of Carmel is 105,000 and the population of Fairfax is about 1.1 million, right? Parts of Fairfax are not suburban . . . they are urban. If we chose an area of 105,000 people within Fairfax and we chose it from the suburban part, it will probably be comparable to Carmel on those statistics.
Carmel was ranked the safest mid-sized city in the entire country:
https://advisorsmith.com/data/safest-cities-in-america/
Nowhere in the DMV made the list.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 07:12
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
If you want diversity, there are other cities in Indiana that offer it. For example, Gary, IN is only 13.2% white:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/garycityindiana
It's also famous, as Michael Jackson was born there.
Unfortunately, it also has one of the highest homicide rates in Indiana and also ranks up there nationally:
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/indiana/dangerous-gary-indiana/
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/garycityindiana
It's also famous, as Michael Jackson was born there.
Unfortunately, it also has one of the highest homicide rates in Indiana and also ranks up there nationally:
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/indiana/dangerous-gary-indiana/
Anonymous
02/19/2023 06:40
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity, any Jewish families there? Would they feel ostracized?
Hoosier native here. I didn’t know any Jews until I went to college on the east coast . I think there might be one synagogue in all of Indianapolis.
My public high school had a very active Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter. And regularly advertised “Meet At the Flagpole” Christian morning prayer events. And we had assembly speakers who openly spoke about how Jesus saved them…
If the requirement is being Christian to have an environment like this and awesome school sign me up.
You are the Jewish PP?
No
Anonymous
02/19/2023 06:37
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The high school has 5000 kids and there are kids who have 22 mile bus rides to it.
And takes 30 minutes to drive it
My high school was 1 mile from my house and I never had a car.
Wow amazing. Why doesn’t everyone just do this
Because they’re too scared of minorities to live within cities or dense suburbs.
I think you missed the point. I wasn’t aware we could all just move within walking distance if a high school
Most people could. But they would rather self-segregate into the exburbs like Carmel. Sorry you were unaware of that; you’re not now.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 04:18
Subject: Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be able to take the winter weather.
+1
If I ever leave this DC hellhole, it’s going to be for someplace warm.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 02:22
Subject: Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Yet another DCUM thread with half the people who moved away from a place 30 years ago posting about how it was then as though nothing has changed. The other half, who visited something sort of like the place once 30 years ago or saw something on tv, have an opinion, too.
That’s ok, the residents of this place can only hope that these fine residents of DC will just leave them alone.
That’s ok, the residents of this place can only hope that these fine residents of DC will just leave them alone.
Anonymous
02/19/2023 00:07
Subject: Re:Carmel IN looks amazing, great schools, good people safe, etc
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The high school has 5000 kids and there are kids who have 22 mile bus rides to it.
And takes 30 minutes to drive it
My high school was 1 mile from my house and I never had a car.
Wow amazing. Why doesn’t everyone just do this
Because they’re too scared of minorities to live within cities or dense suburbs.
I think you missed the point. I wasn’t aware we could all just move within walking distance if a high school