Re: Retirement

Actually, an hour is a good estimate of how long the drive is between Indy and IU. Our son attends Indiana University, so we have made the drive between Indy and IU many times, usually in a little under an hour.

Re: Retirement

From just north of Greenwood to IU campus it is one hour if traffic is lite and there are no floods or accidents. {Heliochopters excluded of course}

Re: What about non-college personel

going to class doesn't have to be just for college graduates--anyone can go and it would be a good opportunity.

Or, alternatively, you could take a more pessimistic view and blame someone or something else for living in a higher cost area and not having more money to spend.

Re: Retirement locales

I suggest you look at DC's channel 4, 7, and 9 local TV news for just a few evenings -- and ask yourself, "do you feel lucky, punk?". The most important thing to me is avoiding the drive-by shootings and open gang/drug warfare!

In the case of DC, I live within less than an hour's drive of the place and I never go there anymore, except to take the occasional out of town guest to see the monuments.

All the senior bennies listed are very expensive to pursue, and the typical attractions, e.g., Kennedy Center, etc., are completely out of sight due to cost and hassle to get there and back.

I would move out of this very expensive, taxed-to-death, dangerous, polluted, and traffic-congested locale in a heartbeat, except that my wife will not move away from the new granddaughter! My advice is to get out while the getting's good.

Re: Retirement locales

DC is an excellent example of what comes from too much welfare. The national government keeps supporting the DC government with welfare in many ways not given to other American cities. It is a shining but sad example of how people who can lean on the government end up behaving.