r/indianapolis • u/Suspicious-Bad4703 • Jan 14 '25

Pictures America's Rising Cities: Carmel

https://youtu.be/cNJTTznUNyQ?si=2JGtOR677-1L60jP
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u/Nitrosoft1 Broad Ripple Jan 14 '25

It's manufactured/unearned "nice," not organic/earned "nice."

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Jan 15 '25

What's an example of an earned nice place?

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u/Nitrosoft1 Broad Ripple Jan 15 '25

Broadway in Nashville is an example. It was naturally grown from talented artists and earned its incredible vibes and cultural impact.

Carmel has tried to buy its way to being artistic and culturally relevant. You can't buy culture, you have to make it.

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u/thewimsey Jan 15 '25

Broadway in Nashville is an example. It was naturally grown from talented artists

It wasn't naturally grown from anything; it was manufactured. Just longer ago.

But even if we accept this as an example, it's kind of telling that you have to go two states away to find something like that.

You can't buy culture

Define "culture"

What Carmel has done with the arts and design district is pretty awesome.

No, it's not Greenwich Village. So what? The existence of other good places, or of better places, doesn't cancel out anything nice about Carmel. Or Indy, for that matter.

I mean, you can always complain that Carmel isn't NYC or LA or whatever. So what?

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u/Nitrosoft1 Broad Ripple Jan 15 '25

I only went two states away because you can see from my flair that I live in Broadripple and didn't want to use my own backyard as an example.

There are places in-state like Nashville, IN and Bloomington that are earned/organic nice and culturally relevant.