Bill Smith
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What is the safety level of living in downtown Indianapolis?
Downtown Indianapolis wouldn’t be a bad place to live provided you got some security and watch yourself and where you go. Not all parts of downtown Indianapolis are a total hellscape but you also have to be somewhat careful since its a large area with a large population. Is it any worse than certain…
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Are there nice, wealthy parts of Gary Indiana near the lake?
Miller Beach is a relatively nice area and relatively safe even as part of Gary. Its also home to a lot of people who own second homes or live and work in Chicago or work remotely away from downtown Chicago. Go a bit further east and you have Porter County which is where I grew up for a few years an…
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You think paying higher taxes is horrible come to Indiana where the taxes are low but the quality of life is crap in most rural areas. Only Indianapolis and some other cities are tolerable. The rest of the state is pure trash.
Jane
· 4yWhy is Illinois the worst place to live in America?
We are taxed for anything and everything. More people have left the state than have come in.. Why? Taxes - property taxes, sales tax, income tax, gas tax. It’s horrible!
Indiana has a low cost of living why?
Because a sizable percentage of rural Indiana isn’t somewhere that you want to live. After all would you want to live in a small town ran by crooked cops as well as pandering to dope heads especially people hopped up on opioids and methamphetamine. After all a lot of Southern Indiana these days is c…
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What is the worst experience you have had in Gary, Indiana?
Actually most people avoid going to Gary, Indiana because there is no reason for an outsider to go there or even bother stopping there. There is nothing much to see except abandoned buildings that have been allowed to rot and turn into trash filled dumps and covered in graffiti. It’s been well known…
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Why do people hate Indiana so much?
I’ve always found the state and its proud moniker of Hoosier is a stupid term and always has been something that ought to be derided to start with. In Indiana, the term Hoosier generally means backwoodsman or awkward unsophisticated person. It might have been fine back in 1816 when the state was fou…
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Why does Gary Indiana smell like that?
That would probably the massive amount of industrial pollution that exists in NW Indiana and NE Illinois. As Jean Shepherd formerly radio great of WOR, WLW and countless other endeavors said of his youth that “you could run halfway to Milwaukee on Lake Michigan from Chicago before sinking” because o…
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Why are there so many coverups and conspiracies in Indiana?
As far as coverups and conspiracies in Indiana it boils down to state and local governments having corrupt people especially in the smaller towns and communities in Indiana. A lot of your small towns in Indiana have a problem with nepotism and favoritism cough cough. You have a lot of these people w…
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What are the low crime areas to live in Indiana?
Anyplace that you have a better overall class of people that actually care about their properties, homes and even those that rent that actually care about trying to better their lives. I can’t recommend a lot of towns in rural Indiana these days mostly because of the vast drug problem that exists in…
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The same would go for pseudo patriots or better yet called Trumplicans or Paytriots. Bundling you clowns up and having an air drop over Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan would be a better use of resources. After all you can be a Talibangelical.
John Steele
· 2yIf I travel around Japan with my (gay) husband, will we have difficulties getting double rooms? Will people object to renting to a gay couple?
Why take the chance. May I suggest you travel around Saudi Arabia instead. Don’t forget to use lots of PDA (public display of affection) while you’re there too.
Is Gary, Indiana dangerous?
The problem with Gary, Indiana is the same problem that Detroit, Michigan had from the 1970s onward until the last decade. They were both built primarily on a single industry. In the case of Gary that was the steel industry which made up for the lions share of employment in Northwest Indiana from th…
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Which area has the better quality of life, northwest Missouri or northwest Indiana?
Personally having been to NW Missouri and lived in NW Indiana for a few years I would choose NW Indiana especially Lake and Porter counties over anywhere in NW Missouri unless you can consider Kansas City eastern and NE suburbs as being NW Missouri. Even then I wasn’t all that impressed with the Kan…
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What is the safest way to leave Indiana?
Fill up the hoopty wagon with gas and make sure the tires aren’t flattened and then slam on the gas heading north or west or east and go elsewhere. However, don’t go to Kentucky because its actually worse place to live than Indiana.…
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What are the political demographics of Indianapolis?
Indianapolis used to be a primarily Republican city for most of its recent existence at least until the late 1990s when Bart Peterson became the Democratic mayor of Indianapolis then followed by Greg Ballard from 2007 to 2015 who was a Republican but not so Republican to make one wretch. The current…
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Why is Indiana so historically Republican?
Indiana has a huge percentage of reactionary types that totally flip out over seeing anything new whether that is someone of a different culture or learning a new language or having their kids exposed to new ideas. It reminds me a lot of one of my grandparents that had a huge problem seeing interrac…
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How can declining small cities and towns in the U.S. be revitalized?
The truth of the situation is that most of these places cannot be revitalized properly without huge investments in education and infrastructure that won’t attract businesses and corporations to set up shop there in those places that are declining. The decline of these places are for a myriad of reas…
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Should me and a few friends head to North Carolina for a few days?
Sure and why not? I’m not a big fan of parts of North Carolina mostly in the Piedmont and some people in the Western mountains because of their dislike of outsiders or Yankees as they call us. That being said you can find a great time in the Eastern and Southeastern areas of North Carolina without t…
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If Louisiana were to be split into two states, where would you draw the line?
I would consider anything from Alexandria on south in Louisiana to be getting into the line where you start encountering Cajun Country especially anywhere within 30 miles of Interstate 10 and then further South. The areas also turn more swampy in the more southern areas of Louisiana while the areas…
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What is the best state in the United States to live in, given the least frequent natural disasters?
Nowhere is perfect in the United States as you can have disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, extreme heat, extreme snow and rain and then man made disasters. I would venture to guess that one of the best states overall would be Montana because outside of wildfires there i…
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Is the Indiana Teachers of Tomorrow a good licensure program?
Frankly Indiana doesn’t value education because it refuses to spend nor has the economy to improve its educational system to the point that it would be a top 10 or top 15 state system. In Indiana, the quality of education receive is dependent on on the type of funding that the local community alloca…
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Why are Indiana’s Hamilton County job applicants so scarce that manufacturers are turning to inmates on work release from the local jail?
Over the years manufacturing was made a dirty word by school counselors and teachers along with other school administration. Add in that parents didn’t want their kids to grow up doing repetitive manufacturing jobs along with the dirty environment of those jobs in many cases is another reason. You c…
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What is America's oldest inland city?
As far as a city goes it would be St. Louis since it was founded in 1764 as a river post for further development of mid Mississippi Valley and later as the Gateway to the West. There are a few smaller settlements that are smaller and were founded in the 1700s before St. Louis but none of them grew t…
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How tall is the Missouri Arch?
That would be called the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The Gateway Arch was built in 1965 and is a height of 630 feet at the very top. You can also ascend to the top through little cars that you ride in to the top and see a nice view of St. Louis and towards its suburbs on a clear da…
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What is the most generic big city in the United States?
If you consider a big city being say over 600,000 or 700,000 then I believe that Indianapolis, Indiana would be right up there with being one of the more generic cities. Its well known in US marketing circles that Indianapolis as a city is a place that is kind of vanilla when it comes to the larger…
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Which of these states would you most like to vacation in, Mississippi or Montana? Why?
Montana by a mile versus Mississippi. Montana is a very wide open state with a lot of outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain climbing, winter sports, reasonable summers without oppressive heat and humidity. Mississippi on the contrast is the poorest state in the Union and also has tremendous pro…
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Why should I not commit suicide?
The best bet is to keep on fighting for that better future rather than take the easy way out and then let the chips fall where they may if you don’t succeed at creating a better future. Even in my 40s I refuse to give up no matter what life has thrown at me and that includes type II diabetes, partia…
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Is screaming a small town Indiana thing? My sister’s friend could scream really loud. Driving along, my sister’s friend would lean out the window, scream into a happy walker’s ear and slap the side of the car! People thought they’d been shot!
While there are plenty of uneducated “idiots” in Indiana there are plenty all over the whole country that think acting like an ass is acceptable. This problem isn’t limited to some scrub infested town in rural Indiana or even a larger Indiana city. I’ve been to 40 out of the 50 states and frankly I’…
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If Ohio were to secede from the United States, would it be able to support itself economically?
Most of the states in the United States would have problems supporting themselves economically no matter what kind of dire fantasy that their politicians and residents get in their heads. One thing that I know and I will say is that large swaths of rural America now rely on food stamps as well as far…
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Why is Indiana called the Ball State?
Indiana has never been the Ball State and furthermore the state was in existence far before the Ball family started their canning and manufacturing operations in Muncie and then later was involved in the founding of Ball State University. I might also mention that Ball State is a small part of Indian…
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Is the state name "Indiana" racist?
As someone who is mostly a lifelong resident of Indiana and having been born here, raised here and have lived here 44 out of 49 years along with having Indian ancestry and heritage including family members that were full blooded American Indians I don’t find it as racist. The term Indiana came about…
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Is there life after death? If so, where do you go?
In my personal experience I ended up going down the tunnel that people talk about with near death experiences. The tunnel was long and dark but there was a light at the end of the tunnel that I could only assume was a creator being one would call God. I don’t remember a whole bunch of the experience…
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Does everyone still think that the United States of America is the best place to live? What country is best to live in, and why?
I can honestly believe that the United States of America is headed for total economic, fiscal and social collapse and hear me out before chewing on me. Like much of the rest of the world the United States has been on a debt fueled economic system for 110 years or so. At one time people had to save m…
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Have you ever seen black people from other countries have prejudice against black people in the United States?
I’ve lived around black Americans aka African Americans but also have talked to and associated with many Africans from West Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa over the years. What I have found is that many Africans have a problem with the African American personalities and culture that they…
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What are some of the loneliest places to live in the USA?
Louisville, Kentucky to me was one of the most lonely places in the country. It’s hard for anyone from outside there to actually make lasting friends. Even my wife that lived in Louisville area from age 14 to 34 had the same problems with people and the only place she found some sort of friendship e…
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Why does living in a big city make me feel so lonely?
You need to find people with common interests, common aims, common hobbies or things to do that would keep you from being lonely. Cities aren’t for everyone and most people like their suburbs or rural areas for a reason. That’s not to say that you can’t find honest friends in cities and urban areas…
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Why are there so few blacks in Kentucky compared to other southern states?
In most Kentucky towns outside of where there is a sizable percentage of them they would be given the sundown town treatment. While this sort of system is part of the past most blacks realize that they wouldn’t be welcome in most Kentucky small towns or harassed. All the while the so called Christia…
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What is the deal with Indiana? Why did it never get as populous as Ohio, Michigan, or Illinois?
Indiana never became a very populous place because of the pattern of in-migration from lower population Southern states especially those of Virginia and further south such as North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama who sent many people onward to the west and north to try out new opportunities. Kentucky was…
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How many years does a level 2 felony carry in Indiana?
Ten to thirty years with an advisory of 17 1/2 years in prison.
What level is a Class C felony in Indiana?
Indiana in 2014 or so made some changes to their legal system. We no longer have what would call Class A, B, C, D, E, F felonies. They’ve basically made it a number from F1 to F6 with the punishment harsher as you go from F6 the lowest class felony to F1 which would be something on the order or murd…
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What are some states that still have plastic bags?
Plastic bags including garbage bags and other plastic bags aren’t illegal in most jurisdictions in the United States. Some large cities may have banned such plastic bags and required reusable bags or cloth bags for transporting food or other items but overall 99 percent of the country has the abilit…
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In the state of Missouri is it legal to schedule someone 7 days in a row?
Can you be fired for no reason in Missouri? Missouri is referred to as an at-will employment state. This means that employers are typically allowed to fire employees for any reason or for no reason at all. ... One of these exceptions is that an employer cannot discharge an employee if the termination…
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How long does a misdemeanor stay on your record in Indiana?
Your record in Indiana is your record and its easily accessible through the court system which is also online so anyone can see what you were charged with whether that is a misdemeanor or a felony charge or even a civil suit for example credit card nonpayment, civil torts, mortgage foreclosure and t…
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