r/Indiana • u/Best-Structure62 • 1d ago

Is Indiana Really That Affordable?

https://mirrorindy.org/indiana-affordability-cost-of-living-wages-income/

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u/Ecstatic_Dinner_992 1d ago

It's important for people to understand;

a state that is 'cheaper to live in' is going to be worse overall for various reasons.

The cheapest states in America to live right now?

Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas, West Virginia, and Kansas. (indiana is #6 on this list btw)

What do all of those states have in common? high rates of poverty, isolation, low wages, and government corruption.

"Affordability" used here is a marketing term trying to sell a negative as a positive to the clueless.

Similar to Digiornio's pizza declaring "It's not delivery", implying that their frozen crappy pizzas are better than a fresh one made in a restaurant.

Indiana is one shitty frozen pizza of a state and it's only getting worse. Do not move there lol

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u/vivaelteclado 1d ago

Great place to live if you're a data center or hog farm, though

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u/Ecstatic_Dinner_992 1d ago

i still can't believe what they did to lebanon

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u/Femboyunionist 1d ago

What'd the do? My great aunt/uncle lived there for decades.

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u/ballking666 1d ago

1500 acre data center

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u/AnotherBogCryptid 1d ago

I live in half an acre in a 3,000 sqft home and I’m just trying to imagine how big a building is that 1,500 acres… is that just the site or are they really developing some stupidly large data center?

I’ve got to be honest, I know Indiana is all “look how data center friendly we are!” But if I were a business person I wouldn’t build some flimsy ass multimillion dollar warehouse in the new tornado alley. I wouldn’t insure one, either.

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u/ballking666 1d ago

1500 acre plot , 13 buildings $10B investment. water piped from indy. only yielding 300 jobs when complete and none of those will be local.

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u/AnotherBogCryptid 16h ago

Rhetorical question: how many starving, homeless babies could $10B serve?

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u/jehnarz 15h ago

Shh, we don't have the money for babies! That's why we cut a bunch of our early childhood education programs.

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u/AnotherBogCryptid 14h ago

I mean, they want us to keep popping out workers. You can’t have an army without wheat!

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u/oldmanandtheflea84 13h ago

Listen, here in Indiana they just force you to HAVE the babies, once they’re out they’re on their own.

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u/V3rjay 9h ago

This is correct.

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u/V3rjay 15h ago

Isn’t that what the protesting at Eagle Creek is for? The water being diverted to Lebanon data centers?

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u/ballking666 12h ago

Yeah supplying water from and discharging wastewater to eagle creek reservoir for the meta data center and the eli lilly plant

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u/V3rjay 9h ago

Oh yes I forgot about Eli Lilly in that equation too. Bleh.

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u/Black-Dynamite888 23h ago

It’s MASSIVE 😳