7 Places in Indiana You Should Never Move to 

I guess the rule of thumb is something like if there’s a city you can afford to buy a house in you really don’t want to live there.

"Gary". A good four -letter solution for a crossword clue "a very bad place" when "slum", "jail", and "Hell" don't fit.

What about Indianapolis? You can't turn on the local news or radio station without hearing about the stabbings & shootings that occurred the previous day. There were times I even heard gun shots outside where I lived. I am SO GLAD to be out of that city now!

Thank you for posting all these videos on areas to live or not live. I getting ready to retire soon, and Im looking elsewhere soon.

I've lived in Bloomington for 44yrs and have never experienced any crime. The diversity is the draw here. Good arts, music and international food choices. All kinds of activity choices, most of them free. Garden and art walks, studios, shops. Several farmer's markets. Lakes and creeks and ravines TREES everywhere. A very busy city parks calendar. Art and Music festivals. Olympic level sports. A good place to raise a family with good schools and sport camps. Hoosier National Forest and Deam Wilderness, Lakes Monroe & Lemon, and Griffey Lake closest to town.

Thank you for discouraging people to live in Indiana. They should definitely stay where they are or move to a state more in line with their ideology.

I've lived in Hammond for 70 years and have worked here , in Gary and in Chicago. I feel safer here and in Gary than in Chicago. What doesn't kill us, makes us tougher!

I live in Terre Haute. I-70 is a major highway for transporting drugs. A lot of the big busts are on I-70. I am a senior citizen and feel fairly safe. Also, I don't take any chances no matter where I am. The major crises are the roads, railroad tracks and what seems like an increase in vehicle accidents. Yes, there are drug and homelessness problems but this is true just about everywhere. It's an ok place to live.

While your points are well researched, it is not accurate to say Gary 'hitched its wagons' to the steel industry. Gary was literally built as a company town for US Steel and named for its founding chairman.

The Gary Works still produces huge amounts of steel, but the process is now highly automated and employees few workers. I think part of the decline of places like Gary is due to the welfare state, which allows people to remain in the area with minimal resources, instead of moving to where where there are jobs. Unemployed young men get into trouble with the law. When someone has a drug conviction most companies won't hire them. Most employers avoid cities with a low percentage of college graduates. Gary has valuable Lake Michigan frontage that begs to be redeveloped. If Gary would further empty out the crime would decline and the city might be redeveloped, which is the long term story for Detroit. Unfortunately, a very long trend considering that Gary was rapidly built in 1906 from a large swampy area. Gary has a potentially great location. Stay in school kids.

I live next to (but not in) a neighborhood in Indy where a million dollars could not buy a home...You would need a multiple of that amount. On summer nights, you can sometimes clearly hear gunfire from an entertainment district that is just a couple of miles away from those mansion homes. Last year, four people were shot to death in one night on those streets by a nineteen year-old girl. When police cordoned off the area they found six vehicles parked there that contained firearms. No permit is required in Indiana to buy or carry a gun.

Bloomington is hit and miss depending which neighborhood you live in. But overall it's a pretty safe place to live (for a city this size) with beautiful neighborhoods and parks. Campus crime and a couple of high poverty places skew the data.

Great info!

I`ve lived in Ft Wayne all my life. It is changing for the worse like most places but it is growing. Growing too much for my liking. This peaceable suburb has now become part of a bustling city environment...farmland is now hospital and healthcare businesses.

LOL Thank you! So, I moved from Georgetown Il to Brazil In... read that as Danville and Terre Haute... I'd like to see the numbers on Brazil, In. As always, great video!!! You have the knack for it.

I’ve lived in two of the towns listed, Muncie and Bloomington. Both are a world better than my hometown, Anderson, In. Anderson was nice when I was a kid, but it’s been downhill ever since. I can’t believe Bloomington is on this list. It is by far my favorite town in Indiana. I imagine the University and drunk students account for a lot of the crime. I felt safe there all the time. I can’t say the same for Anderson or Muncie.

Interesting how some of the worst places in Indiana are also the "big college" towns. Gary & Hammond sit next to each other, but many in Lake Co would tell you Hammond is "safer" than Gary. These two cities & crime bleed down into other adjacent towns like Munster, Highland, Merrillville, & Hobart. I grew up as a youngster in Gary. In the late 70s & early 80s it was known as "Murder Capital of the World." Gary doesn't have as many homicides as it once did because many deaths are now listed as "accidents." Gary was built and founded by US Steel Corp. It didn't hitch its wagon to the steel industry; it was the steel industry. It just never had leadership with an eye on diversification..... just a few notes from the 219 / Lake Co area.....

7 places to not move in Indiana: North Indiana, north west Indiana, south west Indiana, south Indiana, south east Indiana, east Indiana, north east Indiana. The same logic applies to many states like Iowa.

Great video.

I was born in Anderson,In.

I’m from Laffeyette IN and live in Bloomington Indiana

Elkhart, IN here…..I technically live in Edwardsburg, MI but work literally right across the road & pay taxes, shop in Elkhart.

Can't believe she did not say Milltown Indiana.

Indy, South Bend, Fort Wayne, Gary, need more??

Gary has very affordable housing, is on the shores of Lake Michigan, and has a minor league baseball team. However, it’s a little scary to dive through there.

Grew up in gary and worked there all my life. Watched it go downhill since the 60s. Downtown gary is not near as bad as it used to be. The majority have moved south to the city of merrillville . Deserted after dark . Less people left to rob and murder. Worked in gary on the night shift. Still very scary though. Merrillville has all the rift raft from gary.

I live NOrth West INdiana its called The rust belt.

I live in middle of gary hammond and chicago so..

My grandkids live in Muncie .Wow I didn't know that.There's alot of homeless in Kokomo too and what about Marion?

i have to agree with gary being #1 i was always told growing up if you went there expect to either get shot mugged or stabbed

Am I the only one who noticed 8 of the 10 cities mentioned were "college towns"? I find that very interesting. Is there something inherently connected between colleges and crime?

I live in Richmond and it's not a good place to live to many Drug Dealer's here and the cops do nothing they are worthless

Well I sure wouldn't recommend moving to Evansville either. 😬 Lots of mental illness. And apparently we're the drug capital of Indiana. It's hard to describe the amount of news reports i get about drug dealers, drug users and drug related crimes. Also we've just had a double homicide. Also it has it's fair share of child molesters and attempted abductions. I laugh when I meet people new to the area and they're talking about how great it is. Yep. Just you wait 😅 Im planning my escape. I will say, however, that our police force seems to be doing a great job the last year ir two particularly.

Martinsville Indiana is the most miserable and most unreported crime area is Indiana

ok just going to set 1 thing stright i live in bloomington and the bouncers do not wear bullet proof vests

Do a story on lafayette indiana

Indianapolis should have been at least number 3 on the list...shootings are a daily occurrence and crime is at an all time high. I grew up in Merrillville IN 9 miles south of Gary and saw the city of Gary decline quickly from 1973 till I moved out in 1980. I lived then in Indy until 2012 as I saw the handwriting on the wall Indy was heading downhill fast. Funny thing is most of the towns listed have colleges in them as a main attraction. Looks like university jobs don't mean great pay or living in those cities.

Ball University? Seriously? It's BALL STATE.

The best spots are in the county and john cougar is overplayed bunches

At least Terre Haute isn't Gary--heading that way though.

We loved Seymour!

You didn’t mention that Jim Jones is buried in Earlam Cemetery at the foot of his ex wife’s grave

You failed to mentioned the smell in Terre Haute.

Muncie isn't too bad but it's a college town

Good video, thanks for posting. One suggestion I would make is to slow down your narration, you're rushing through it and its not a race, easy to miss some of the information you're trying to convey.

This video is soo bogus. I live in Terre Haute and I have only had my house burglarized twice in the last twelve years. LOL!

We are glad you moved out 😅

Gary, Hammond, East Chicago are by far theee best cities in Indiana! Only thing is we basically aren't Indiana, more like Chicago, yet not them either. We are our own entity

That seems to imply there might be places in Indiana one would want to move to?

I grew up in rural, ignorant, racist Indiana. So glad to be far FROM Indiana.

Northwest Indiana is usually pretty safe

This video would be more accurate you said "Places in Indiana you should never move to. Number 1. Indiana. Thanks for watching."

Kokomo should definitely be on that list.

Claypool, IN, population about 450