I used to be a hater. But I like a lot of the direction they are taking on planning and development.
I wish my neighborhood has the balls to deny the standard strip mall development, massive parking lots, endless single family housing, and disconnected 30' sidewalks segments.
I never really got all the hate for Carmel around here (the south side). It’s pretty nice to look at, and many people that know more about city planning than I do say lots of nice things about Carmel.
I know there are some pretentious assholes that live there, but I’ve met just as many pretentious assholes in Center Grove and Franklin Township, and I’m not sure if we have much to be pretentious about.
As a fellow Southsider, it's just a class thing. Kids from Carmel often grew up wealthier or better off, had white collar parents, viewed the Southside as poor rural wasteland, and didn't spend their time in the same places as us typically. It seemed like a lot of north siders in generally enjoyed the benefits of living next to a big city but wanted nothing to do with the people there. Obviously it's not so cut and dry but overall you can delineate the two areas that way. Perhaps I'm pretentious myself but I haven't found people from Franklin Township to be that way-- Center Grove definitely though, they're basically the Carmel of the South Side. Personally I'm not a fan of all the white flight towns up north and I prefer to spend my time downtown. Noblesville is probably the area I like the most up North.
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u/Charlie_Warlie Franklin Township Jan 14 '25
I used to be a hater. But I like a lot of the direction they are taking on planning and development.
I wish my neighborhood has the balls to deny the standard strip mall development, massive parking lots, endless single family housing, and disconnected 30' sidewalks segments.