Anonymous wrote:


Hey, so let's all move to Carmel, Indiana! Because we all had such bad outcomes with our kids as a result of living here, right? And we all are so unhappy here, right? I'm so unhappy that I'm still here after 34 years. Access to the best schools in the nation, great healthcare, 3 airports, close to ocean, close to mountains, good transit options, great entertainment, museums, restaurants, and oh, yes, JOBS and opportunity.

I'll give Carmel the fact that housing is cheaper, but there just might be a reason why. Beyond the yellow brick road indeed. YOLO.


Best schools in the nation. Lol. Try Massachusetts or working anywhere for Dept of Defense. DODEA. Now then you can brag…

Anonymous wrote:


Hey, so let's all move to Carmel, Indiana! Because we all had such bad outcomes with our kids as a result of living here, right? And we all are so unhappy here, right? I'm so unhappy that I'm still here after 34 years. Access to the best schools in the nation, great healthcare, 3 airports, close to ocean, close to mountains, good transit options, great entertainment, museums, restaurants, and oh, yes, JOBS and opportunity.

I'll give Carmel the fact that housing is cheaper, but there just might be a reason why. Beyond the yellow brick road indeed. YOLO.


Best schools in the nation. Lol. Try Massachusetts or working anywhere for Dept of Defense. DODEA. Now then you can brag…

Anonymous wrote:

Hey, so let's all move to Carmel, Indiana! Because we all had such bad outcomes with our kids as a result of living here, right? And we all are so unhappy here, right? I'm so unhappy that I'm still here after 34 years. Access to the best schools in the nation, great healthcare, 3 airports, close to ocean, close to mountains, good transit options, great entertainment, museums, restaurants, and oh, yes, JOBS and opportunity.

I'll give Carmel the fact that housing is cheaper, but there just might be a reason why. Beyond the yellow brick road indeed. YOLO.

Anonymous wrote:


Hey, so let's all move to Carmel, Indiana! Because we all had such bad outcomes with our kids as a result of living here, right? And we all are so unhappy here, right? I'm so unhappy that I'm still here after 34 years. Access to the best schools in the nation, great healthcare, 3 airports, close to ocean, close to mountains, good transit options, great entertainment, museums, restaurants, and oh, yes, JOBS and opportunity.

I'll give Carmel the fact that housing is cheaper, but there just might be a reason why. Beyond the yellow brick road indeed. YOLO.


What a provincial view.

Anonymous wrote:

Hey, so let's all move to Carmel, Indiana! Because we all had such bad outcomes with our kids as a result of living here, right? And we all are so unhappy here, right? I'm so unhappy that I'm still here after 34 years. Access to the best schools in the nation, great healthcare, 3 airports, close to ocean, close to mountains, good transit options, great entertainment, museums, restaurants, and oh, yes, JOBS and opportunity.

I'll give Carmel the fact that housing is cheaper, but there just might be a reason why. Beyond the yellow brick road indeed. YOLO.

Anonymous wrote:Define “good people”.

I think we all know what you meant by that

Anonymous wrote:Indiana is the hellmouth from which Dan Quayle and Mike Pence crawled out of. No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:People in DC are trained to believe that DC is superior to everywhere else -- that's why they have to disparage other places like this. Criticisms like urban sprawl, lacks character, etc. -- these apply to DC also, but folks here will never acknowledge it because then they'd be admitting that they're paying tons of money to live in a pretty soulless, high-crime area with terrible housing stock and schools that aren't as good as those in other areas.

I mean, go move back to BFE Indiana or Ohio or Michigan or wherever and celebrate the awesomeness of sameness. The benefit of DC and the DC area, especially for those of us that grew up in the Carmels of the world is the wealth of opportunity right at your door in terms of diversity, history, educational and other opportunities. Everyone in Carmel went to the same colleges, have the same friends as when they were kids, put their kids in the same organizations that they were in, and generally sit around and talk about how great it all is. And if that is great for you, then wonderful! You've found your place.

The DC area certainly has its drawbacks, but people aren't trained to believe it's superior. It IS superior in so many measurable respects if your goal is to live in a place with more going on then Carmel, IN for your whole life. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I've grown very wealthy in the DC area with diversity, elite, travelled the world, for 30 years and think Carmel looks much better. I am considering leaving the DC area for some place like this for my tweens cause the DC area has slid so much .

Anonymous wrote:

Hey, so let's all move to Carmel, Indiana! Because we all had such bad outcomes with our kids as a result of living here, right? And we all are so unhappy here, right? I'm so unhappy that I'm still here after 34 years. Access to the best schools in the nation, great healthcare, 3 airports, close to ocean, close to mountains, good transit options, great entertainment, museums, restaurants, and oh, yes, JOBS and opportunity.

I'll give Carmel the fact that housing is cheaper, but there just might be a reason why. Beyond the yellow brick road indeed. YOLO.

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 wrote:POC here. Lived there as a kid. Literally one of the most overtly racist places I’ve ever experienced. Our family was repeatedly called racial slurs, told “to go back where we came from.” Not exaggerating one bit. My parents called it “The Mississippi of the Midwest.”