What is going on everyone welcome back to the world according to Briggs and thanks for watching today
We're gonna take a look at a city that I don't think we've ever talked about on this channel
That's amazing because this place sucks Indianapolis, India's some people call
It is right here in case you don't know it's like dead center in the middle of Indiana
The city was incorporated on September 3rd 1832 in the u.s. Most people know a few things about Indianapolis
You know, they kind of know where it is and kind of know what goes on there if you're from the area, obviously
You know a lot about it
but the rest of the United States we all know something about
Indianapolis, if you're from another country not from the United States
You just know that there's a big race that goes on there once a year. That's pretty much it
India is also known as the crossroads to America and the railroad city
It was a major rail hub throughout the Civil War and I mean even beyond that during the American Civil War
Indianapolis was mostly loyal to the union's cause governor Oliver P
Morton was a major supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and that quickly made Indianapolis a rally in place for the Union Army
Today the Indianapolis metro area has just over 2 million residents making it the 34th largest metro area in the u.s
There's a lot of people moving to Indy lately and I'm not sure why you're one of those people thinking about moving to
Indianapolis, you should watch my top ten reasons not to move to Indianapolis, Indiana
Number 10 bedbugs before moving to the city you'll need to find a really good exterminator
This is because Indianapolis is ranked as the third worst in the nation for bedbugs now that's according to
wthr.com
Some ways you can protect your house from bedbug infestation is by checking
Secondhand furniture you may have bought in for any signs of pests getting a mattress encasement thing and reducing clutter
So the bedbugs don't have many places to hide. They're just like my wife
They won't live in a place with a lot of clutter unless of course, it's the bathroom sink believe it or not
Pests are one of the most researched things when people are relocating. Why do you think so many people left Detroit rats?
oh and the fact it had no jobs in and was
Incredibly dangerous
Number 9 the weather
Indianapolis has some pretty crazy weather patterns during the winter temperatures drop into the 20s and stay there for a while and they even go
Lower well in the summer they get up around 85 degrees and stay there for a while. Although that doesn't sound terrible
The humidity is really bad here
The humidity is the worst since it prevents the city from getting any kind of breeze on those summer nights
The summer's here kind of rough wear sunscreen. They also get tornadoes very rare, but they get them
Number eight public schools Indianapolis public schools are not the ones you want to be sending your kids to if at all possible
You should probably either
Send them to private school drive them to a nearby town with a better school district have them watch Cartoon Network all day the results
Will probably be similar to that of a public school education in Indy as of this year
The district's graduation rate has dropped to a very low
83% while the rest of the state is about 88% That's not the best
However, Indianapolis has made some great improvements since the graduation rate in 2006 was about 47 percent
That's embarrassing
Number 7 public transit there's so much wrong with the Indianapolis public transportation system
I could make a series of three half-hour videos on it
Indiana is one of the least echo friendly states just with in Indianapolis nearly 78% of the residents drive alone to work while only 5%
Take public transit one likely reason for this may not be readily available
Like in other major cities Indianapolis only has public transit buses. No light rail. No subway
No jetpacks nothing. They do have am tracking Greyhound buses
But chances are you won't be taking those every day?
Because once you take one of those out of town you fight tooth and nail not to come back
Number 6 racism while most of the country really frowns upon racism. It's very much alive in Indianapolis
The city still sees far too many hate crimes every single year
although its major problem in the city currently officials are taking steps to reduce racism and hate crimes for the future recently the central
Indiana Community Foundation imposed a five-year plan for the city called inclusive city by this
They're hoping to better the lives of the residents regardless of race identity
Socioeconomic status hopefully, that'll make some progress
Number 5 the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, if you don't already love car racing, maybe you shouldn't move here
The city is home to the Indy 500 as well as NASCAR's Brickyard for and a whole bunch of other little races
You'll know when the next race is within months
You'll start seeing and hearing ads for it everywhere and all your neighbors will be talking about it and they'll probably invite you over to
Watch the race. There's no escaping it. You better read up on it in advance
So you got something to talk about with your neighbors. It's a big deal here and stop typing
We know you live in Indy and you've never heard any ads seen anything about those races
You don't like racing and you never see anything about it
I obviously don't know what I'm talking about if you're about to leave that comment
I'm here to tell you this you are lying or you're the only person who has ever lived off the grid in a major city
Congratulations, you pulled it off
Number four the water smells bad as of right now the tap water in Indianapolis is safe to drink by government standards
However, it still smells horrible which is always refreshing in addition to the smell
there's the potential for
contaminants that could possibly cause cancer now the local
Government says that the water is fine safe to drink safe to bathe and there's no cause for alarm at this time at this time
So it sounds like it's doing okay right now. It just stinks
I mean who doesn't want water you could smell I mean think about it
Have you ever taken a drink of something?
Thinking it's to say like a soda then turns out to be water and you almost choked
Yeah, never worry about that here. The smell will tip you up well in advance
Number three. It's an Indiana
Indiana's apply over state and it's flyover state for a reason nothing really exciting ever happens here except for maybe a bunch of wheat and
Blueberry farms if you consider that exciting everyone heads to Indianapolis for excitement
the only thing is there really isn't anything worth getting excited over you better like sports or maybe something like
Female truckers fighting and truck stop parking lots. I mean but really about the trucker chicks. I mean come on who amongst us
Number two murders according to the New York times.com
Indianapolis ranks 27th for the highest murder rate in the country Indianapolis has seen a four year streak of rising homicides
They first broke the record of 143 that was set in 1996 in
2015 with a hundred and forty-four people being murdered that record again was broken in
2016 with 149 people murdered and in 2017, they lost a hundred and fifty seven people and not wanting to you know
Give up on their streak in
2018
159 people stepped into the light in the city of Indianapolis
Thankfully law enforcement is you know, hopefully going to turn around in
2019 the numbers are kind of down
So hopefully it's a good thing but they're reaching out to the community and really focusing on keeping each other safe
They need to do something. It's been getting really bad there
and
number one the rising population
Indianapolis has a population of about eight hundred sixty-three
Thousand residents and rising I told you earlier they got 2 million that's for the whole metro area
This is just the city of Indianapolis. The population density is about two thousand three hundred sixty-five residents per square mile
There are places in Iowa where they have one or two people per square mile, although recently
It's kind of slowed down the growth pattern for the city
It's still expected to gain another 15 to 20 percent by the year 2030
the city is expected to be responsible for up to
65 percent of the state's population by then when you have stinking water race issues and no real transit system
Why would you move here? Maybe there's a cheap mortgage in your future
Who knows maybe people move there for some government program that lowers your student debt, you know, nobody likes those school loans
Maybe they're helping out with that. Who knows but people are still moving there and I don't understand why
All right, so that's my top ten reasons not to move the Indianapolis. Hope you guys got some information out of it
Hope you enjoyed it. And here's the thing about people from Indiana
They're decent people sure the ones that are out murdering each other
Wouldn't be considered decent people the people of Indianapolis and the people of Indiana are good people
I've never had a problem with them. Don't forget all the links below hit that like button hit that subscribe button
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