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Noblesville, Fishers, and Westfield are great places to live with a little more down to earth feel IMHO.

Let me tell, 20 years ago there was nothing in Fishers but farm fields. Now look at Fishers.

Interesting changes. I was in highschool there more than 40 years ago. We (as I said in another post) lived about a mile outside Westfield. It was mostly open woods and farmland --- country. The town was not "down to earth," it was mostly rural poverty. In its own way, not that different from parts of the Ozarks. That's not my background...my father taught at Butler so he was a professional. There were very few families there like that then. The folks just liked living in the country. For example across the road from us, there was not a single house for 2 miles either direction. I learned to drive on my own driving around country roads because it was good practice and there was never any traffic. We lived just up the road from a limestone quarry/swim hole of a kind right out of the movie Breaking Away (which took place in Bloomington but still a hoosier limestone quarry is a hoosier limestone quarry), I got a little grief for being "a rich kid" but not that bad. My Westfield friends and my Brebeuf friends were 2 entirely different social worlds. I basically had 2 different circles of friends.

NOW it's all a completely different deal. Just a different world altogether.

Just reminiscing for no reason. Been a long time since I could recount these things to someone who would get it. I live in Maine now and haven't lived in Indiana since 1972 (though have been back to visit, including last summer).

A pic from Breaking Away:





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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2016 10:23AM by zn.