In a recent Hoosier
Gazette online poll, citizens of Indiana
voted the city of Gary the worst place to live in the state.
Gary, a city in
northwestern Indiana on Lake Michigan, has around 103,000 inhabitants (2000
census) and is Indiana’s fifth largest city. It is known for its high crime
rate and was once given the title “Murder Capital of America” for having the
highest per capita murder rate in the nation.
Gary received a whopping
41% of the total votes for worst place to live. Terre Haute came in a distant
second with 20%, and “Kentuckiana”, or the cities of Clarksville, New Albany,
and Jeffersonville near Louisville, Kentucky, received 8% of the vote.
Despite an increase in
efforts by Gary officials and law enforcement to curtail the city’s lawless
image, most citizens of the state still feel Gary is the by far the worst place
to live in the state.
“Gary sucks. I wouldn’t
live there if they paid me,” said Mark Brown of Rolling Prairie. “I wish we
would just give it to Chicago or drop an A-bomb on it to be rid of it.”
No one arguing that Gary
was a good place to live could be found for comment.
