Welcome from Cedar Lake/Schererville. Cedar Lake is not liberal. They call it Cedartucky for a reason, but new money coming in is changing the demographics. Good school system too.
I am sorry to say that I cringe in spite of your pledge to not bring Chiraqui politics to our free state. Too many FIPs (not you), come here and are ruining our fair place.
As stated above Lake County is Chiraq light, but we are still much freer than them.
Seeing if there's any interest in a NWI Meet & Shoot and what day would work best. Poll is open for 14 days. Any of these days work fine for me Meet and Shoot would be at Winamac FWA Date set for Saturday Oct 2nd Another successful Meet and Shoot
I did not catch if you are needing employment where you decide to live. I spent way too much time in Northern Lake county. Pockets are ok, but some parts are really bad.
I really liked living in Highland and Griffith, but even in the '70's and 80's the criminal element was starting to screw up things.
I wanted to try small town life and bought a house in Lowell. Nice town, nice people. Kids were safe. Low taxes. The down side for me was that gainful employment was a long commute, very long, especially when the steel mills started closing departments. 3 to 5 hours daily behind the windshield for work is a fools errand.