Indianapolis
Pros: easy to get around town, great airport, lots to do, and very very affordable.
Cons: Not pedestrian friendly. Sprawl.
Pros: easy to get around town, great airport, lots to do, and very very affordable.
Cons: Not pedestrian friendly. Sprawl.
I’ll just add mine here:
Pros: decent chef-driven dining scene, active downtown due to sports and conferences, affordable, small enough to not feel like a major metro but big enough to have stuff to see/do, not a far drive to country areas to get out of town. As someone who grew up in a small town but then have lived in major metros since, I’m most comfortable in Indy.
Cons: distance to mountains (7 hr to Smokies) or oceans (13 hr to outer banks), relatively tame and limited local hiking options, potholes in spring, limited tech options (Eli Lilly, Salesforce, Rolls Royce, Cummins, Roche, Beckman, Corteva, Hospitals, … maybe a few others I'm forgetting).
Aside Salesforce, these are just big companies. The startup scene here is pretty good (I run one), and there are many other tech companies (Genesys, 1st Internet Bank, Jobvite - techpoint.org is the tech industry trade group here) that have a significant presence here. It's not SV, but if you are a developer, you can do alright here.