Indiana towns and cities

HARRN2b · Apr 19, 2006

D,

I live in Fishers, IN which is on the northeast side of Indpls. I used to live in Carmel. Carmel is more expensive, but both school systems are exceptional. My sons attend Hamilton Southeastern school system. Price ranges for homes in fishers are very affordable. I found a 3 bedroom ranch with a large yard for under 150k. House has hardwood flooring, imported tile and a nice size kitchen. I am close to Conner Prairie which is a big draw for outdoor concerts in the summer. Many hospitals on this side of town. Community uses LPN's and I live about 10 minutes from there. What is really funny is that I would like to eventually live in CA. Maybe we could just trade residences LOL!!!!!

dawn1971 · Apr 19, 2006

I'm still a student, so can't tell you anything about the hospitals, except that there are many. The biggest is http://www.clarian.org (it has at least 4 hospitals), I think community's site is ecommunity.com. There is also St. vincent's hosptial, St. francis, and wishard. They main newsparer is http://www.indystar.com, if you want to look at employment ads. I live in a north suburb and love it, however there is a lot to be be said for the south suburbs as well (Greenwood, center grove, ect). A good housing site for the indianapolis area is http://www.mibor.com, it lists current homes for sale in the area and some rentals. I hope this helps! Dawn

IndyGal · Apr 21, 2006

I live in Pike Township, on the NW side. What I like most is that I'm within walking distance of a 5,000+ acre park (Eagle Creek Park) and the area is almost entirely residential. The downside is that it's not convenient to any kind of shopping... but I'm not much of a shopper, so that's ok by me. I'm maybe 15 minutes away from Methodist, St. Vincent, & Westview hospitals and 5-10 minutes from Indy Ortho and Indy Rehab hospitals.

We used to have a rental house in Washington Township, which is north-central. It's an older neighborhood, also very nice, a little more convenient to malls and the like. When I first moved to Indy I lived in Greenwood (south of town). It had too much of a "rural" flavor for me, but it just depends on what you like.

There are apartments all over the place -- should be no trouble at all finding a rental. Many of the apartments near hospitals offer discounts for hospital employees.

zookeeper · May 31, 2006

I don't live in Indpls, I live in Richmond which is 60 mi east. My brother and 2 nieces now live there though. I used to commute to Methodist though when I was in nursing school. It is a 900 plus bed trauma center and Wishard is the county hospital and has, I believe, the only official burn unit in the city. IU, Methodist and Wishard are all downtown. There's a new Heart Hospital which I've heard good things about, I think it's on the north side, correct guys? St Vincent's is northside and St Francis has a couple three locations, one south, one more south and is the other north? We send pts to IU Med for bone marrow transplants and high dose chemo. We used to send all our heart pts to St V's before we did any kind of interventions here.

My brother has lived on the southside in and near Greenwood coming up on 20 yrs. He has a 9 yo boy who attends a charter school now and used to go to Mary Brian. They like the schools very well. There is a lot more school choice in Indpls than where I live. One of my nieces just moved to Fishers and other niece is on the west side and has a 2yo and is pregnant. They live in a nice home off of 56th her husband works at IP&L. My Fishers niece is the director of a day care downtown if you need daycare! I would advise shying away from moving to the east side of town and some parts of the west side (near Layfayette Square Mall there has been a lot of gang activity there).

jcarew · Jun 1, 2006

Hi,

I have lived in Indianapolis all my life. The best areas are the outer suburbs especially Carmel, Fishers, hendricks County (newly built up) or south to greenwood and southport. The best schools are up north though in Hancock county (Fishers and parts of Carmel). I am currently working as a SNE in the ER at St Vincents (large non for profit catholic hospital). Methodist is probably the biggest hospital in indy and would be a great place for critical care patients. Our "public" hospital is Wishard, not really the best place to work. There is also several locations of Community Hospitals, St Frances Hospitals, IU Hosptial in Indy, Riley Childrens hospital and many other small ones. Hope this helps a little. :mad:

Jenny

NurseRoRo · Jun 7, 2006

there is a subacute hospital located inside St Vincent Hospital in Carmel. It's called St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Hospital.

www.stvincent.org/ourlocations/hospitals/seash/default.htm

also check out Methodist Hospital, part of Clarian Healthcare. I believe they have a similar facility called Select Specialty.

www.clarian.org

good luck

NurseRoRo · Jun 7, 2006

oh, btw, there's also Kindred Healthcare Hospital, it's located downtown. it's long-term acute care for adults.

www.kindredhospitalindy.com

DRenfro · Jun 22, 2006

Thanks to all your responses especially Nurse RoRo for letting me know of any subacutes. If anyone knows of any other subacutes which are trache, ventilator , gastronomy fed patients units continue to let me know. We still havent moved from California yet. I am all set up with my Indiana Lpn license they even sent me an enlarged Diploma like Certificate that is very nice and can be framed. California sure never has sent us any such certificate like that and the license cost much more than Indiana's. Our home fell out of escrow here so were waiting for another buyer. What is bad is that we hearing so many good things about Indiana want to move seriously there, and the market here was always so good that now when were trying so hard to sell the market has drastically slowed down at least 50% from what it was last year when we werent ready and we have already decreased our price by 30K. So I hope we finally get a bite soon. We need to move. Thanks again for all your help out there in Indiana.

Debra

indyph · Jul 7, 2006

Hello - welcome to Indy - when you get here. I've lived here for over 60 years. I made a career move from a supportive nursing position some years ago to business and I am now looking forward to retiring.

Indianapolis is beautiful! It came from a very country town (not that long ago) and has blossomed into the "best of most" worlds. As some of the replys have indicated we have one of the largest "in-town" state parks anywhere; we have wonderful, thriving, friendly, grassy-lawned, young family, neighborhoods - both north and south. And hospitals that are known around the world. The Clarian network spans the city and there are numerous neighborhood clinics and speciality facilities. The St. Vincent Hospital network is primarily on the near north and suburban northside. Carmel is considered the "elite" district, however per-capita levels are fast increasing toward the northeast. Moderate to mid-high incomes thrive in the downtown district for employement, but live mostly to the north, north east, or Plainfield (30-35 minutes west).

Carmel (30 mins. north), Noblesville (35 mins. northeast), and Greenwood (20-30 mins. south) are, in my opinion, like annexed districts, because they are quite self-contained in the sense of busines; education; entertainment and socialization. However, all are within a 35 minute drive to the very heart of downtown. Of course, that depends on HIGHWAY OR "DRIVE-WAY" CONSTRUCTION!!!! :uhoh3:

Seriously, I still don't know of a better metro to raise a family; meet decent friends; eat out; go clubbing, golfing, see a baseball game or attend the opera. And the clinker may be that for the most part there is something about Indy that has retained that "y'all come" friendliness. Yes, strangers still smile and speak as you walk through large malls and downtown streets. We have it all - including yuppies (old ones); jazz fest; german fest; international fest; a long (several miles) canal running through the downtown area with offices and apartments overlooking it; an exceptional history rich with tales of pioneering (and a Pioneer Village) and one of the world's largest Children's Museum and a world renowned Children's Hospital. I could go on for ever (or for at least 60 yrs worth), and, I believe, we have had fewer people migrating than emigrating over the last few years.

Contact the Indianapolis Visitors Bureau; Carmel Chamber of Commerce; Noblesville Chamber. You might be interested in the quaint village-town of Zionsville (northwest). After 60 years of watching these areas grow I would recommend any of them.

By the way my two sisters did'nt like the winter snows so they have lived in the San Francisco areas for the last 30+ years. However they are always amazed at how beautiful the city has become.

Good luck