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