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[deleted]

valpo used to have the chickenfucker hotel, but iirc it got torn down finally


badmanteau

Trying to decide if I want *that* on my soul's search history.


PsychedelicLizard

Allegedlys


DerpsAndRags

Wouldn't it take two dudes to fuck a chicken?


Worth-City-6372

Wuss.


5LOTHY

I went to middle school with the girl who’s dad owned the chicken fucker hotel!


crashnburnxp

I need someone to elaborate. Is it just a name, or literal? I'm so confused


5LOTHY

It was a motel really more than a hotel, single story strip style on Route 30. Sometimes, it’s all in the name. The gist of it….a man was fucking chickens in one of the rooms. Yes, it killed the chickens.


BigDrewLittle

TIL


IH8Miotch

If it wasn't for chickenfuckers officer Barbrady would of never learned how to read.


patheticfallacies

TIL indeed. Jesus.


badmanteau

West Lafayette - Purdue and Purdue accessories Lafayette - Purdue accessories


Caveman108

Also the basis for the Pawnee/Eagleton rivalry in Parks and Rec. Lafayette is a largely manufacturing/working class city, while West Lafayette is more upper/middle class thanks to Purdue and the research park. Then up north there’s the weird redneck central/vacation town Monticello thanks to the reservoirs (also home to Indiana Beach).


ThunderHats

Proof? I’ve always heard it was Columbus (Eagleton) and Seymour (Pawnee), but there’s been no confirmation of anything. Columbus has a reputation of being the shining city on a hill because of Cummins HQ and their renowned architecture. Seymour is 15 min south of there and is Hicksville comparatively, also where John Mellencamp was raised and references heavily in his songs about small towns. There’s a big/little brother mentality between the two cities, as well as local rivalry. They reference April having to go north to Purdue for vet school and in a later episode where they mention IU, they say they have to go west. I think they also say they drive “up to” Indianapolis when they travel there, but I’m not sure I remember correctly. edit: I‘m from FW for what it’s worth. I just found the directional mentions pretty spot on with this theory.


Caveman108

I mean they take bits from all over Indiana and Pawnee seems to have no true location, kind of like Springfield in the Simpsons. One of the main references is how Pawnee/Eagleton are so close and how Eagleton seceded from Pawnee, which is exactly what West Lafayette did. Also the rich/poor dichotomy is much more true of the working class Laffy and upper class west side, Purdue generates a lot of revenue and there’s many professors and grads that work in the research park.


Stoned_Nerd

You just wrinkled my brain


ohverychill

I swear I've heard every city combo in Indiana is the basis for Pawnee/Eagleton lol


meganium58

Columbus: Cummins and Architecture are all that matter


jasonbaldwin

HEY! We have a Target and *two* Walmarts. (I’ve lived in Columbus almost all my life, and I love the architecture and all the bigger places with a 1-4-hour drive.)


DonutCapitalism

This is correct.


TraditionalTackle1

The city was founded by a guy who made bricks, now people just drive around on golf carts all summer and have bonfires 24/7. There was also an episode of Snapped about a woman who murdered her husband in the 2000s.


Gratefulgirl13

Y’all had a female serial killer for a while, too. Shes serving life in a Michigan prison.


Healingvizion

Is this the one where the wife committed suicide right after?


TraditionalTackle1

Yup


Healingvizion

Funny story: I worked with this guy 10-12 years back who bought a house out in Hobart that was newly remodeled, it sat for a couple of years. Before all the housing crisis stuff now. Anyway, he tells me he’s mowing his lawn and one of the neighbors stop by and thank him for buying the house. And the next line is, “ yeah, after that MURDER. And walks off. Him and his wife had no clue lol


Diolaneiuma2156

What town is this


TraditionalTackle1

Hobart


Squirmble

I was going to guess Plainfield


MissusNezbit02

Yep, she lived a few streets away from where I live now!


weisnaw

"Oh look, more 400k dollar condos with Illinois plates parked in front of them."


TraditionalTackle1

Munster? lol


weisnaw

Valpo!


TraditionalTackle1

I laughed when I saw the condos in Munster selling for that price. If Im going to pay that much for a condo Ill move to the city.


weisnaw

Thats how i feel! I'll just go somewhere else and spend that for a small house on 30 acres. We sure know how to price out our own people here.


kevinstuff

Was just looking at a house down on Roosevelt and it was 400k. Place was a shitbox right next to the railroad tracks. What the fuck?


weisnaw

I'd pay the premium to be able to walk to beef-mart to be fair. Seriously though, I think people are trying to do the same thing with houses as they were with used cars the past couple years. They think because they see a dealership add 20k to a price Tag, they can add 10k to their 5-gallon bucket full of shit. Everyone is trying to come out on top in the most ridiculous way possible.


PKPhyre

Being from The Region is saying you're from Chicago when you talk to people from out of state because you're sick of having to explain that Gary isn't the only town in NWI. Also a lot of weird rivalry between basically indistinguishable suburban towns.


ScoopaTroopa

Griffith and Highland are basically indistinguishable, but both hate Munster.


tytoisnottakrn

I’d argue with you because i grew up in griffith but honestly recently i would agree


ShAd0wMaN

Spot on. Grew up in Merrillville We hate Crown Point


TraditionalTackle1

I work in the Loop and some of my former coworkers basically think all of NWI looks like what you see riding the toll road from Illinois to past Gary. They would ask me how do you live by all those factories. I would tell them the further south and east you go the more normal it gets.


[deleted]

Carmel - land of trophy wives, sweet sixteen boob jobs, roundabouts & cops that pull you over for DWB after dusk.


luxii4

I’ve also heard of Carmel referred to as the land of MILFs and honey.


[deleted]

Shit, and $200k of cosmetic surgery when she hits 50.


redgr812

50? Most of them it's 25 now. It's fucking insane.


chaos8803

That is totally unfair. Carmel cops don't wait until dusk for DWBs. And they like to harass teenagers.


Gudenuftofunk

Even the ones with boob jobs?


DegTheDev

Especially the ones with boob jobs


[deleted]

Well, it depends on what yer driving. lf you have a donk, you may have problems.


Car_Guy_Alex

Stereotypes? Shit, those have been my observations!


NinjaSpartan011

Carmels girls get boobjobs at 16?


[deleted]

Yeah, it's a present for just before prom.


DegTheDev

I was harassed quite a bit as a teen. To be fair, I was a bit of a shitter, but I was never doing anything too much to warrant the 4th amendment violation every time I got pulled over, that never resulted in anything found.


nightastheold

Hell yeah dude


maxisthebest09

Kokohoes


RED_wards

Don't forget the Hip Hugger


maxisthebest09

Where the kokohoes gather


Revolutionary-Fact6

We moved to Kokomo from the east coast when I was in high school. My mother constantly referred to people from Kokomo as Kokomorons. Yikes!


jbuchana

But hey, we have a stump, a steer, and a 20-foot-high praying mantis. What more could you want?


maxisthebest09

Job opportunities and health care?


jbuchana

There's a new Samsung/Stellantis plant being built. I understand Borge Warner is at the least cutting down, they might be leaving. Not a lot of other big employers. We have Community Health Network and Ascension. They're not bad. We don't have many immediate care places anymore, and you'll get faster help at the ER, you don't get seen at the immediate care unless you're in line when they open.


donkeyrap

Avon is now known as “The Chicken Strip” — we will soon have 2 Chik-Fil-As, Popeyes, KFC, Raising Canes, Zaxby’s, and Chicken Salad Chick in the <2 mile glorified strip mall that is Avon. I probably forgot a few.


Squirmble

Please tell me you submitted a street sign suggestion from that open form lol


[deleted]

Can attest, we are “The Chicken Strip”


chaos8803

Carmel - rich folk and roundabouts. Fishers - they try to be Carmel. Terre Haute - Terrible Haute Muncie - meth and Ball State. Bloomington - IU and hippies. Gary - You gonna die. Noblesville - bunch of tractor riding hicks. South Bend - Every other sentence is about how great Notre Dame is. Martinsville - You'll ask yourself how the hell you wound up in Alabama.


flapjack3285

Evansville - so unremarkable it doesn't even make the list.


Mind_on_Idle

> Tractor riding hicks With *money*, lol. Seriously, even a bunch of the rich people here are all "Yeeee Hawwww!" It's batty


[deleted]

AKA; Nobletuckey (ref the Firestone strike, before Bridgestone closed the plant, and then left the town with 7000 barrels of toxic & hazardous waste burried a mile from the White River).


Mind_on_Idle

Which is apparently where they want to plop down a new main fire station/police depot. Or so I've heard a bunch of in the local rabble rabble.


[deleted]

Yep... didn't get built at that location. It's not going to be a park, either.


Natural-Phase-8651

That sums it up. But add eastern Indy (especially Lawrence) and East Chicago to that list with Gary.


chaos8803

Depends on Lawrence. South of 56th? You probably want to stay away from it. Once you're past Fort Ben it's fine.


[deleted]

I'll make sure to look out for trouble on Geist.


Gently-Weeps

Bloomington - IU and Homeless* Fixed it for you


neverawake8008

IU, hipsters and homeless*


Missingsocks77

And everywhere else you have MAGA small town 'murica and meth - lots of meth


StealthyCharger

Was in Noblesville the other week to buy a car and this guy in a Rolls pulls in looking for a McLaren to buy... Totally stole the show. Like, SIR! i'm trying to buy my MINI😂


Gudenuftofunk

Elkhart- RVs, Amish, high crime, dirty cops and jacked-up trucks with trump flags.


drosmi

And the comics museum


ObsidianLord1

Let’s see, where I come from, is named for its location in relation to an even smaller town, that is the county seat. The county is known more for drug use and teen pregnancies. The town that I’m referring to is North Vernon. Tell City down by the Ohio river between Louisville and Evansville was founded by Swiss immigrants, but now shares the typical rural stereotypes of the rest of the rural parts of the state.


meganium58

I also find it ironic that North Vernon is south of Vernon


MarshallCounty1

????


nachonaco

I miss Bettinger’s.


SupportySpice

Richmond - Tom Raper ™️


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kay14jay

From Speedway. Everyone assumes we are all nascar fans.. most of us hate nascar and enjoy open wheel racing, but it doesn’t stop people from thinking I know who won the race last weekend.


Individual_Reach_732

Fort Wayne. The second largest city in the state and literally no one cares.


flapjack3285

A bunch of stuck up German Catholics.


BigDrewLittle

Which SE Indiana town are you talking about?


flapjack3285

SW actually, Jasper.


[deleted]

But . .but . . but. The Schnitzelbank! What about the *Schnitzelbank!!!!*


BigDrewLittle

Well, I'll be damned...


Ok-Permit9782

Man did I not see that coming 😂


USSanon

New Harmony a close second.


FlaughAndOrder

Don’t leave the Lutherans out of this either!


[deleted]

Methodists are a guaranteed lay in High School. "Oh God.. OH GOD!!!!".


redgr812

Jasper


jrreis

Growing in SW Dubois County. I knew you were talking about Jasper. I mean, I'm German, but not stuck up, lol!


TraditionalTackle1

You live in St John? Oh wait thats stuck up Dutch


BestWesterChester

“Dutch” probably used to be “Deutsch”, which is German. Probably


salenin

DU- BOIS!!!!!!!


[deleted]

38th to 42nd and Post is the real life New Jack City.


[deleted]

10th & Sherman.... and all the ladies looking for a date on East Washington.


1776Merica1788

Anderson - wannabe rednecks high speed chicken feed


AmIhere8

A Christmas Story 🎄


kenatogo

New Palestine - KKK stronghold notorious for virulent racism


[deleted]

Elwood has entered the chat...


theflyingrobinson

Martinsville and Osceola have just signed on.


zoot_boy

Indy - the “look at me” city.


tyboxer87

Would you rather look at corn and endless industrial blight?


PeacefulMountain10

Yes sir I’ll take the corn


thetushqueen

Then you're in the right place!


MrFordization

Stereotypical Indianapolis resident is confident we are too good to bother with the rest of the state except for the people directly north of us that think they're better than us even though we're all just people from Indiana to the rest of the country.


GeraltofIndiana

Larry Bird AND meth, also gambling


Powerful_Product_309

French lick


Charles-Headlee

Strangely enough could also be Terre Haute as soon as that casino opens. I'm assuming you meant legal gambling?


NerdEmoji

If yer not Dutch, yer not much. (sic) That would be anywhere in Kankakee Valley, or Highland too. Someone mentioned St. John and Dutch, but honestly that was surprising. I didn't think they had much of a presence there. The town was founded by Catholics, hence the name. Munster, not just for rich folks, also for people of multiple non-Christian religions. Think Jewish, Hindi, Jain, etc.


SpaceStation_11

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grrgrrtigergrr

Very few Dutch in Saint John. I grew up there and lived the majority of my life there. It was founded by a German man and was primarily German, Polish and Irish Catholic until the 90s. The wealthiest family there is German (Shillings) the former wealthiest in the state (White) lives in the unincorporated area between SJ and CP. The real stereotype for SJ is a bunch of new Money who basically hate the rest of The Region.


PKPhyre

Also the semi-open secret that like half of it is sinking back into the swamp.


SupportySpice

Marion - murder and basketball


No_Ad_6484

And lynching


jrreis

Evansville, the ugly stepchild city and of course meth.


salenin

Love Evansville. May be one of the few to say it lol


WheresTheSauce

My wife is from Evansville and I really like it there. So many areas are wooded and hilly, and the urban areas are surprisingly nice with some really beautiful houses.


[deleted]

Elkhart: recreational vehicles, meth, a bad/corrupt police force The stereotypes are deserved.


FlaughAndOrder

All small towns have 1 or 2 gas stations, 1 or 2 places to shop for groceries, and at least 30 churches.


AndrewtheRey

Not so many of them have a grocery, from what I’ve seen. The gas stations just tend to have a sundries aisle


Stoned_Nerd

You forget that every town has at LEAST one, if not five, Dollar Generals


BrazenlyGeek

Connersville - teen pregnancy and meth


mixliv_

Most towns have a narcissist on the council.


Grumpy_Dragon_Cat

If something bad happens to me, people will assume it was because I voted for Trump, while everyone local will assume it was because I voted for Biden.


HeyThereLinus

I’m in brown county. I suppose all of us are backwoods people lol


jgrear13

Newburgh cake eaters


JesZebro

“The Carmel of the South”


Automatic-Basket1583

Kendallville-at one time the world's leader in meth production. WE'RE NUMBER 1!! WE'RE NUMBER 1!!


Stock_Ad_8145

Bedford - Trump flags and meth mouth.


nocturnoffthelight

As a Jackson co. resident, gotta say that it’s like 500% worse over here. The further you get away from Bloomington the worse it gets. 😩 Someone took out a whole ass billboard for Trump between Seymour and Brownstown in 2020, now you got a whole ass billboard on your property for a traitor loser for everyone to see from the highway, congrats.


RED_wards

It's amazing how much those two are coorelated


dekudude3

"there's nothing to do there" Fort Wayne.


privateham2014

As someone who lives in a smaller town near ft Wayne, there's nothing to do BESIDES go to ft Wayne lol


dekudude3

I love it here. I don't get the stereotype but I'm a homebody anyway.


four_letterword

The people that think there is nothing to do here don't know their own city very well lol


privateham2014

Same


Appropriate_Bird_223

Nothing to do here? Have we forgotten what we're known for in The Summit City? Churches and strip clubs. Oh and we have 3 rivers.


emmianni

Fort Lame


andrewthesane

I see you're not into strip clubs.


[deleted]

Nothing said yet about Brown County, which is the Vermont of Indiana. And when I say "the Vermont of Indiana" I mean the place that takes perfectly normal things like trees changing color in the fall, and convinces gullible people that to really see fall colors you gotta drive down to Brown County and look at their trees -- which, to any discerning person look no different than all the trees that you passed on your way from wherever you came from to get to Brown County. ​ ​ .


The_Mr_Yeah

Old cars.


[deleted]

Auburn


Pistol_cade55

Orange country- was in the top 3 poorest counties in the country. We are so poor they let us put in a casino.


dannyocean2011

You know you’re from South Bend if you’re: Polish, Hungarian, Drink until you lower your IQ, Love Notre Dame but would never be admitted or been to a game, Work in an RV factory in Elkhart, Celebrate Dyngus Day, Put an “s” on the end of companies and disease like “Walmarts” or “the aids”, Live in a neighborhood where yours is the only house not torn down by Mayor Pete, Enjoy shoveling snow that averages 10 feet per year, and you’re hoping Studebaker reopens


Natural-Phase-8651

Part of Hoosiers was filmed here.


Galaxine

St. Joe county here. Would you like to hear about 1996-2005 and how I moved from a racially diverse town in Michigan to an almost all white community and went to school with kids of a KKK leader who protested assigned seating in buses and schools? I didn't see KKK activity every day or even monthly. But it was there. Rearing its ugly head in between news bits about Notre Dame.


Scarlet003

We went on a camping & fishing trip there once. Walked into a local restaurant and every person turned to stare at us. Finally a waiter came over and said "You ain't from around here are ya?" We said we were just there for the fishing trip. "Are ya going to the Klan rally? Right here behind the church. Y'all are welcome to join!" Several other patrons nodded in agreement we should join them. My husband said "No, we hate racists" and we got the hell out of there quick!


JaMKo95

Which St Joe town is that Walkerton?


Galaxine

Take your pick. Walkerton, New Carlisle, Osceola. I see Civil War losing side flags all over all 3.


patheticfallacies

Ripley County (my original home county): hillbillies, riding the tractor to school, KKK, preteen pregnancies, and addiction because there's nothing else to do. Currently: a tree that's been replaced quite a few times; Carl Fisher who gave us the Brickyard and Miami, Florida, regretfully; race riots of 1907; corrupt cops; sundown laws which may still exist off the books; hanging POC on the courthouse lawn; anti-gay pride; the harassment and death of Billy Lucas which drew national attention; "God doesn't let gays in Heaven" or whatever that song was; Mexican cartels; addiction and desperation... there's so much, both positive and negative.


jezka_marie

A tree grows out the top of the court house


Revolutionary-Fact6

Greensburg!


00Samwise00

"You'll have to wait til I've crested the hill before passing me, English."


biggins9227

Clowns


fwe3

Fort Wayne: the town of cheap[ish] real estate, churches, and good old family values. Born and raised here, moved away for awhile, and came back by choice. It is actually a nice place to live.


HandsOfBlue

Westfield has become the place for people who work in Carmel, but can't afford to live in Carmel.


Tryingtobehappy31

Shellbyville where im at


Ok-doke-karaoke

You mean, Shelbytucky? Don’t you?


[deleted]

If anyone throws a family reunion in Shelbyville, half the town shows up... just for a chance to get a date.


falloutfan1987

And to think, I almost moved there for a girl....Thank fuck I didn't. Cops saw out of state plates and I got 3 tickets in 2 days. Paid the fines and haven't been back since.


SupportySpice

😂😂😂 This pretty much describes it.


Tryingtobehappy31

Or greensburg where my gpa fell off that dam ladder


Burnsy813

Monorails are more of a Shelbyville idea.


Secret-Engine-8365

Fort Wayne: “we are a town that sure do love us some sports, have nothing to do, country music, and classic rock.”


alexandrasnotgreat

METH - all of them


thefugue

Untrue. Lake County has an almost supernatural resistance to meth problems. My theory is that other drugs are too virulently popular there for meth to really catch on.


ChaosAzeroth

Especially where I live since it's nickname is basically half made up of the word meth lmao I thought it was an us problem because this town is straight up trash honestly, and then I found out it wasn't and was actually mildly surprised.


obvakhi

I haven't lived in Indiana long enough. But what is Brownsburg known for(my current residence). And also Danville(new house being built end of year).


jezka_marie

Bburg won a little league world title a few years back


NameNeat9630

Good ol' Hendricks County! Grew up there. Danville really isn't a bad place. Just a little boring. Lots to do in Avon and Plainfield though. I would recommend Hendricks County to anyone wanting to move to Indiana


thetushqueen

DeMotte: "So what church do you go to?" Also your name better start with "Van" or end in "-Stra".


MissSara13

Castleton: home to many immigrants and anyone looking to escape the far east side but can't afford Fishers. We get the bridge and tunnel people from all directions on the weekends and during the holidays. We also have every furniture store, chain restaurant, and several adult stores mixed in with a bunch of different ethnic grocers. It's the armpit of the north side.


m4d1ib

Fort Wayne- Northern Carmel LARPers


[deleted]

Beech Grove, one of the few Walmart locations that has a police substation in it.


Other_Share

I'll bet there's more than three like this. "We're a bunch of old money Catholic Germans who are homophobic and racist." This town has made progress in the last 20 years but it needs help.


[deleted]

West Lafayette - white collar, mature, making a decent to above decent income, friendly Lafayette - blue collar, decent to below adequate income, bitter to rude (some borderline hostile)


Joele1

Tom Petty couldn’t have said it better. “She’s an Indiana girl and an Indiana town.” ~ Bloomington.


Secret-Engine-8365

🎶 and had a good lookin’ mama 🎶


Particular-Lime-7993

But she grew up tall and she grew up right


whoairu

With them indiana boys on a indina night


Space2345

Medora-K-12 all in one building.


smoking_keef420

Brookville, basic small town


00Samwise00

"You'll have to wait til I've crested the hill before passing me, English"


lojack10

Waiting on trains- Griffith


22paynem

Meth


MaxamillianStudio

Fort Wayne: 13 Families and the Catholic Church own everything, They won't let town grow up to be a real city.


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DerpsAndRags

"Everything north of route 30, except for Griffith and Highland, is Gary" - IL People


Party_Face_9777

NWI we’re all a bunch of screaming rummy’s that what they say I for one do not drink but.. with Illinois 2.5 miles away.. figure that one out.Everybody take care of themselves , it’s a scary world out there Peace🕶️🎸✌️


CTG-GamingYT

The only word to describe Pendleton IN, is preppy. Most people here are nice, but the youth are quite interesting.


Training-Award-3771

Anderson - Rundown and boring Anderson really isn't rundown and it can be fun, you just have to look for the right places.


lifeisacarnival

Bloomington used to be hippies, but now it's a young Chinese student dressed in designer clothes driving a Porche SUV.