Does Indiana suck? Is it boring or are there things to see?

Answer 1

There is more than corn in Indiana! It is just like any state, there are things that interest some but not others. Indianapolis is great! Lots of shopping, the nations #1 rated children's museum, (among others) arts and night life, parks, the list goes on. Northern Indiana has Lake Michigan, Notre Dame which, believe it or not a very interesting place to visit. Also Lake Shaffer with Indiana Beach Amusement park. Southern Indiana has Holiday World with an awesome water park and theme park! There are numerous vineyard and wineries. Brown County in has incredible tourism too and lots of amazing scenery and shopping. There are way too many state parks to name that all have camping, hiking, boating, fishing swimming, canoeing and more! Just in the county I live in, there are 2 and and 6 more just in the surrounding counties! (I live in Southern Indiana.)

It all depends on where you go and what you are looking for!!

Answer 2

Sorry to say, I don't know about Indiana, though I suspect someone finds it beautiful. I can tell you I have lived in Northern California for better than 50 years, and I never ever fail to find it's views and vistas from the Sierra to the Pacific an ever lasting delight. You can hike or mountain bike yourself here for five lifetimes and never see it all.

Answer 3

Depends on what you like, and what part of Indiana are you visiting or moving to. If you move to or around Indianapolis you will find things to do very easy. You just have to pick one or both of these free magazines Nuvo, Intake. They both list coming events and things to see in Indiana for the following week. YOu can also do a search on the net to find other events going on. Indianapolis is smaller then Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and more laid back and calmer. If you want to have fun and find thing s to do you can. If you want to sit around and be bored you can do that too. But it is totally up to you.

Answer 4

I am so glad you asked this question and also so happy to see the majority feel the same as me. Indiana sucks!!!! I moved here from New York 10 years ago. I live in Southern (Evansville) and have hated just about every minute. I just this week put my house up for sale and I am getting out of here soon,....First of all there is really nothing to do here but that is not the worst part. Good luck trying to find any job that pays little more than minimum wage. The people here are so cheap (don't know how to tip in restaurants) but maybe that is because the average salary in this area is $7.00 per hour. When I lived in New York I used to make $50,000 as a secretary. When I moved here and looked for a secretary job the agency told me that I won't find anything paying over $6.00 per hour and that was in 1997, There is also no culture and no art and most of the people (who were born here) have never travelled farther than the local Walmart. What kills me is that they all think this is such a great place. I just tell them go live somewhere else for a while then you will see how great it is. By the way, Indiana has one of the biggest drug (meth) problems in the country second only to Missouri. Just today there was an article in the paper about a lawyer who got arrested for using meth.

Answer 5

I live in Southern Indiana, Evansville, to be exact, and I have a difficult time find anything to do. For a few reasons, I suppose. We play on playgrounds as 20 year olds because it's the only thing to do on Saturday nights when all the parties are over and you're plastered beyond an imaginable doubt.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't recommend coming to Indiana... if I could help it. Indianapolis is nice and so is Bloomington, like others have mentioned, but it's not the most wonderful place on the planet, nor is it some spectacular state that you're going gawk over.

I would recommend going to a state that has a bigger city or attractions, like St. Louis or Louisville (if you're hellbent on coming to this area of the U.S.).

Answer 6

Indiana does have some interesting things to see but I moved from a very big city to Indianapolis (very small compared to my home city) and in my professional living in Indiana opinion, Indiana does suck. People take forever to turn on a green arrow while driving, there's about 20 different accents, the food portions are way too big, a lot of people try to shove religion down your throat, and I could go on. One great thing about Indiana, it's a really really cheap place to live! Other than that, Indiana sux.

Answer 7

It gives the impression of sucking, doesn't it, now? :) As if with any place, there are fun things to do and see if you look hard enough. Indianapolis has a really nice downtown and several musical events happen there all year long. Bloomington is a cultural oasis--everyone is very open and creative. The arts are amazing there as well. Columbus is cool too. In most of southern Indiana, there are some REALLY nice hiking trails and nature parks. Gorgeous woods. The countryside's beautiful. You just have to look a bit!

Answer 8

I moved from Buffalo, NY to Indianapolis, IN about 2 years ago. Let me tell you, I don't regret the move for a second. Compared to Buffalo, Indy is a great city. Sure there's lots of desolate farmland all over the state of Indiana, but the city of Indianapolis is a fantastic city. There is so much history in the downtown area...I would recommend taking a guided walking tour of the canal area downtown (run by the historical society of Indy). If you're a tennis fan, the Indianapolis Tennis Championship (formerly the RCA Tennis Championships) takes place every summer. Not to mention that Indy is home to the Superbowl Champs...GO COLTS!!! The area is growing so much, unlike the incredible shrinking city of Buffalo.

Answer 9

I lived in Indiana for 9 years and it was one of the most horrible experiences ever. Don't look for ANYthing interesting in Southern Indiana. There's nothing but farms and rednecks.
Indianapolis is decent. It has come a long way from when I first saw it. If you like to shop, they have a lot of great malls. Their theatre is good as well as their Children's Museum (which is actually awesome for adults too!). If you go up North to Lake Michigan, I reccomend the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Mt. Baldy is an enormous sanddune that has been eating everything in its path for many years. It's fascinating if you are an outdoors-y type.
Just follow my rule of thumb: try anything from Indy and north of that. Stay away from the southern part.
Knowing what I know, would I make a special trip to Indiana? NOPE.

Answer 10

I went to college at Purdue in West Lafayette and I loved it there. I does depend on where you are, ane you do have to like outdoorsy activities though. I have also canoed some rivers there, and there are some really nice state parks.
There are some really cool festivals depending on the time of the year you go also.
If you are anywhere near the Lafayette area, definitely go to Wolf Park for Howl Night, very cool :-)