Terre Haute sounds great! I live up by Elkhart, and while we have way too much farmland, I can't deny how great our forests are up here. We have bogs, too, which are just magical ecosystems.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's not great at all aside from the trees and a handful of other things.

Or, I guess, if you really like meth.

Also, this place is a very depressed community. About $40,000 a year average household income, so between that and all the meth, the crime rate is also pretty terrible.

That said, I've never been to Elkhart, so I don't know what it's like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Indiana has remarkable nature, especially in the central and southern state. Not too far from you is Shades SP, I would strongly recommend you check out the Turkey Backbone. It's terrifying but amazing. The flora of that region is a remnant of pre-glacial flooding Indiana, and one can find stands of uncommon conifers there like Tsuga canadensis (Eastern hemlock), and some Populus deltoides (cottonwood) specimens that get over 120 ft tall.

That said, Indiana is a terribly, intractibly backwards state with a rotten culture of meathead "conservatism", Amish fetishism and drug use. My city is rather progressive compared to many neighboring (my old town used to be the Klan capital of the world, and the dragon whatever still lives there), but even with that the quantity of red hats is eyebrow-raising. I'm afraid Indiana will never get out of this hole. It truly is the "south of the north", as they call it.

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