muncie is not the best, my family moved out when I was young and when I go back to visit all I see is a ghost town and old people. the only thing keeping muncie alive is ball state
There are two reasons to love Muncie 1). Because you have family there which means its the people, not the place 2). Because you never left so you don't notice that the things you love the most about Muncie are things every other town offers in addition to their improvements I loved Muncie too before I moved away. When I got to the next town I lived in, I felt like I'd went to Disney World...Sadly, I was awestruck by your run of the mill town. The fact that a city might have a shopping area where you don't need a car to get around was a completely foreign concept. When I realized McGalliard is not the standard elsewhere, oh how my world changed. I've traveled to a lot of places more poverty stricken than Muncie. That it's as run down as it is has less to do with its money problems than it does that the government is corrupt as I'll get out and doesn't give a lick for making the city nicer for its citizens. All these "projects" over the last couple of decades, like the downtown revitalization, did nothing for the people but everything for local officials lining their pockets. I'll say that I've seen what Muncie once was before I came along. The old court house, the ball stores, the Rivoli, the Wysor Building and the old downtown in general. They look gorgeous in pictures. But that is no more and the only reason I could possibly imagine someone enjoying Muncie today are for the two reasons I mentioned earlier
There are a lot of places worse than Muncie. Especially since the crooked Tyler administration is gone and Republicans have taken over we are coming back up as a respected place. We are about to open a canning factory and an apartment complex on the Southside which is much needed and the roads are getting better slowly.
I had the unfortunate fate of getting a job transfer to Muncie two and a half years ago, which is unique because there aren't many people in this God-forsaken town that actually have a real job. The city is corrupt. The police are corrupt. The school officials are corrupt. The roads are riddled with massive pot holes. Delaware county has been the worst county in the state for meth the last two consecutive years. The public schools literally couldn't be scored worse. The south side of town is down right scary. 'Downtown' is three and a half square blocks of useless. Harrison College left last year, Ivy Tech is cutting back it's presence here. The population is dwindling. There is absolutely nothing to do here. I have lived all over the nation and this is without a doubt the worst place I have ever had the misfortune to be. If you're eligible for government assistance (like the majority of the people here). You love meth and fast food. This is the place for you.
hi my spell check changed Munich to Muncie and took me to this video. i live in a city called Kirkwall a place no one knows or cares about just like Muncie. have a nice day
I'm not going to lie, this kind of mad me laugh. I lived in Muncie for 24 years and finally moved. It made me laugh when it talked about our beautiful parks and reservoir. I find this documentation a little on the false side but if they are growing it, maybe when I visit at Christmas, it'll be better.
What a wonderful video on Muncie. I am one of 3 people who have moved back to Muncie from the west coast in the past year. This is a great town with friendly people...the most reasonable place to live and have a quality of life. Let's all work together to bring Muncie back and do our best to bring new companies here.
a good way to start is to educate drivers in Muncie to stop flying off the handle and blowing their horns for 30 seconds while flipping someone off. The road rage in downtown Muncie is why I'm never returning.
This is a very nice article about Muncie. I have seen a lot of posts about it, both negative and positive. It is where I live, so I have chosen to be here, like it or not. The people in Muncie have worked very hard to improve our town. Industry has left leaving a lot of buildings empty. The revival of downtown is what I like the most. I think I would say, if you want to help out Muncie, participate in what it has to offer, visit small business owners. If you don't like it, then do something
It's a great place for those that don't fall into the drug scene. Those that do complain about how bad Muncie is, tend to be the ones who are part of the problem. I mean, for the most part, for a city of 70k people, the violent crime is extremely low. I bought a house in Muncie recently and knew what I was getting into.
This video is a lie. I was born in Muncie and hands down, its the worst torn I've ever lived in. I moved back from out west and my family quickly felt we did the wrong thing. Needless to say, I live back west again. Muncie is ok to go visit family then go back home feeling good in the fact you don't live there anymore.
This video doesn’t paint the full picture of what Munice is it has some good things. But it has a lot of problems too and is going downhill fast. Hopefully it improve in the next few years.
In the last 2 years and the next two there are vast improvements going on. As soon as the Mayor took office he started fixing the roads. As far as development on the Southside we have a new canning facility opening that is going to provide hundreds if not thousands of jobs and a new apartment complex to help with housing. Elections have consequences.
I have lived in Muncie all my life and this nice little video does not reflect the place in which I live. Where are the empty, boaded up factories and businesses? The empty and abandoned houses? The buildings that are beyond repair? The roads with pot holes? This only shows the few and quickly disappearing pretty parts. This doesn't show the real Muncie. I want to live in that Muncie because it seems much better!
The Muncie I grew up with was better than it is today by a long shot. Sheriff Kerry, Babe's, Spot Cigar and Lunch, Wolf ice cream the Funkhouser brothers and Pizza King still had good pizza. Like they say, " you can never go back"!
This is one of the few videos about cities by this company which doesn't have comments disabled. Most don't allow comments, maybe because people will ask embarrassing questions like how much did this infomercial cost the taxpayers. Googling Today in America may prove enlightening. I wish my city government had used google before entering into the contract.
I have lived in Muncie all of my life and it has done nothing but go down hill. All they showed pretty much was downtown Muncie. They didn't mention about how all the factories shut down and all of the boarded up houses. Like I have said to people before, if it wasn't for Ball State, Muncie would be nothing but a big drug town.
I, too was born and raised in Muncie. I have seen many changes here, but the most positive views on our town come from those people who once lived here and come back to visit. I think back 10 years ago to what Muncie was then, and to what it is becoming now... and I see great strides being made to make this town a better place to live.
To all that are bitching about muncie... either you're a part of the problem or you're a part of the solution... Muncie isn't perfect & yeah the video is old... But still most ppl have some good memories about Muncie. I lived a sheltered life in Muncie & never in my wildest dreams ever thought I would live in any city larger then Muncie. But I've lived in Chicago IL... Lexington Ky... & now back to Phoenix Az... however my heart's always in Muncie...
You lived a sheltered life in Muncie (more likely Yorktown...). Enough said. MOST of us didn't... and don't care for your perspective on what we should do about the trauma that place gave us. Growing up I knew not one person who spoke about that place the way you did. I was raised on the west side & saw firsthand how corrupt the city truly is. If you had a good experience in Muncie it's because you were privileged enough to avoid the heart of it.
I completely agree, straight down hill at a rapid speed. The 'funniest' part I thought was showing the worst elementary school on the North end. (Can't comment on any Elem that eventually go to Southside High, but Longfellow is by far the worst Elem that moves up to Central High). My guess is that they used that school because it's newly remodeled.
Holy fudge balls! How sad to see everyone commenting so miserably about this place. Clearly, folks, they're focusing on the positive. Everywhere these days has boarded up houses, streets like McGalliard, and schools that are failing. That doesn't mean there aren't things happening beyond the scope of what you see in your day-to-day lives there. But here's the video I think you maybe expected to see (which is also hilarious): /watch?v=KRZuihE2hOA
WOW.....The reservoir was dirty and smelled fishy???? NO WAY...how do you want it to smell like? For pete sake lady it's a reservoir, it's not gonna look like a pretty blue ocean.
I grew up in Yorktown (right next to Muncie), and I loved the area. I haven't lived there for 17 years, so things may have changed a lot, but it was great growing up there. The people are really friendly. I've lived all over America, and northern Indiana and Massachusetts are my two favorite places. States in the South were the worst.
@@ShamrockNRoller I’m from Gary Indiana, lived in Chicago many years then Indianapolis. Moved to Georgia and hate the South own my way back. The rent in Georgia is super high and the wages are low
I lived in Muncie till I was 19. I've moved a lot in the time since and I've yet to live anywhere with as much wasted potential. City leaders raised the beautiful buildings of downtown, let the city forget about a rich auto racing heritage, let would be homeless people turn the reservoir into a trailer park and developed the city around McGalliard (the ugliest street I've ever seen) in such a way that you can't survive without using it (and spending all day in your car to get around).
I've lived just outside of Munce all my life. Never, ever have I heard of Harrison College. And Ivy Tech? I wouldn't really say it's a top rate school.
The contradictions between this video and the actual residents in the comments is laughable. I grew up in Muncie from 2001-2017. I spent most of my childhood in the projects (i.e. Kimberly Courts & other houses on the west side) and my family was well-established with the sect of Crips that used to be prominent in the town. Watching this video I started to think my perspective of the town had become incredibly biased. But it seems everyone else who has personal connections to Munice can see it for what it is. I have nothing good to say about the place. My worst memories and traumas are attached to this city, its people, and its institutions. Damn Muncie, Indiana.
I don't believe you've ever been here. This is a small town we have limited traffic. I'd really feel sorry for you if you had to drive in Chicago or Dallas or Atlanta. You'd shit your pants.
