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Well show the entire metro area. People moving to the burbs lower the city pop but raise the burb. That said, I personally moved from Chicago to Indiana. Some

• tomcam 8y ago
  Where in Indiana? What are the pros & cons?
  • brianwawok 8y ago
    South Bend for me! Pros: * Lower cost of living (think 3 bedroom house for 100k) * Low tax rate (Chicago tax adds up) * I can literally drive in my car to any chain store within 7 minutes. Chicago I could get to most stuff, but it was 30, 45, 60 minute drives. * Can commute anywhere within about 20 minutes, Chicago it's not hard to get 60-90 minute commutes * Decent state level programs to help startups (I found some decent programs from the state of Indiana to help!) Cons: * Sometimes harder to find niche something. I.e. if you want to play board game X wit ha weekly meetup, I bet you can find 3 in Chicago. Here no one may play that thing. Or if you want to eat Vegan X... odds are it doesn't exist (but Chicago has 2+) * Local community is still not ready to support startups. For example - The city claims to be tech friendly - but their programs are either for factories or farms. Not a factory or farm? City can't really help. * Walkability sucks for most of the area. There are a few pockets, but not that many * Smaller pool of applications for career motivated developer / other niche fields. I am sure I can get 1000 resumes for forklift driver, but I might only get 20 for Java developer.