South Bend: #20 Most affordable cities to live in

[BobbyMac]

Yall got some opinions.

I'll say this, if I wanted to move back to the Region / Michiana... I'm going to Granger, Valpo or Long Beach in City.

Anyone who thinks Granger, Mishawaka, Penn & Clay Twp's are NOT South Bend are looking at lines on a map and trying to win an argument.

And #1... if you're white and in the Bend, you are most likely a kielbasa eatin Pollock like yours truly. We used to take shuttles from City and LaPorte to check out how those SB Pollocks got down on Dingus Day.

 

[BobbyMac]

The area around ND is growing, there are new homes, apartments, and a Trader Joe's. Indiana is the fastest growing Midwestern state other than Minnesota, I believe. (But that is mostly in and around Indianapolis, admittedly.)

You may wanna check out the ILL refugees crossing the state line into Lake & Porter Counties. It's mind blowing. Michigan City is next as soon as the power plant comes down in 2027 or so.

 

[BobbyMac]

Interesting. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I grew up Catholic in Terre Haute, as did my father. Both my father and I went to ND. I'm not necessarily young anymore and my father never expressed to me any negative discourse or connotation amongst the locals and Notre Dame students due to its Catholic affiliation.

Sure, Catholics were looked down upon for quite some time, but historically, European immigrants migrated to the northwestern portion of Indiana and the Ohio River. Saint Meinrad and Japer speak for themselves, but South Bend, while maintaining a Protestant / Methodist presence, always had its share of Italian, Irish, Polish, and other ethnic parishes.

You go to South or North? My best man graduated from South in '84. He's part of TH's infamous Syrian Mafia. lol

 

[INLaw]

I got caught up having brunch with the other soccer moms

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[INLaw]

Yall got some opinions.

I'll say this, if I wanted to move back to the Region / Michiana... I'm going to Granger, Valpo or Long Beach in City.

Anyone who thinks Granger, Mishawaka, Penn & Clay Twp's are NOT South Bend are looking at lines on a map and trying to win an argument.

And #1... if you're white and in the Bend, you are most likely a kielbasa eatin Pollock like yours truly. We used to take shuttles from City and LaPorte to check out how those SB Pollocks got down on Dingus Day.

This guy gets it. Jaworskis or ebys?

 

[BobbyMac]

This guy gets it. Jaworskis or ebys?

First one I drive by!

I actually joke with the Mrs that we should grab a crib out there when we buy our summer place. While I'd rather live out off Crumbstown by Jaworski's that corner at Sample has everything I'm looking for. Eby's, Starlite Pizza, the Pollock Legion, a gas station, a liquor store and a funeral home. That's a one stop shop for my retirement needs.

 

[GowerND11]

You poor soul.

I consider it my penance

 

[Hautian Domer]

You go to South or North? My best man graduated from South in '84. He's part of TH's infamous Syrian Mafia. lol

I went to North Vigo. Was your best man a Tanoos? Great family. Dick was a great man...one of a kind, and I loved Tanoos' Market.

 

[Hautian Domer]

Yall got some opinions.

I'll say this, if I wanted to move back to the Region / Michiana... I'm going to Granger, Valpo or Long Beach in City.

Anyone who thinks Granger, Mishawaka, Penn & Clay Twp's are NOT South Bend are looking at lines on a map and trying to win an argument.

And #1... if you're white and in the Bend, you are most likely a kielbasa eatin Pollock like yours truly. We used to take shuttles from City and LaPorte to check out how those SB Pollocks got down on Dingus Day.

You're just casting a wide net and gathering in suburbia or corn fields with Clay Township, Penn Township. What's next? Elkhart? LaGrange? These areas exist for a reason. People moved away from South Bend to these areas for safety/no crime, better schools, better property values. I can't blame them, especially if they have families. It's like Carmel and Indianapolis to some degree.

My point is that Notre Dame, for all intents and purposes, is located in South Bend, and should do what it can, within reason, to support South Bend. Invest in Harter Heights, invest in the East Bank and along the river front...other than the Memorial Doctors and C-Suite staff along Riverside, there's so much untapped potential.

South Bend has potential and it could be a lot more. It also behooves the universities to be located in a better South Bend. It just needs a lending hand.