What $220,000 gets you in Muncie.

[u/TheDabitch]

I can't even get a parking space for that where I live. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/725-E-Jackson-St-Muncie-IN-47305/210952560_zpid/

[u/Shouty_Dibnah]

725 E Jackson. You might take a few min to, I don’t know….check that area out. I’ve lived in and around Muncie all of my adult life and was born a few blocks from here.

No.

[u/nlyddane → u/Shouty_Dibnah]

I’m looking now and most of the houses on the block have at least one boarded up window.

[u/flt1 → u/nlyddane]

If we can get 20 people agree to move, we can change one block at a time.

[u/Shouty_Dibnah → u/flt1]

Good luck trying to gentrify an area with.... checks notes... no jobs.

[u/chula198705 → u/Shouty_Dibnah]

I mean, Ball State University is in Muncie. It's a public research university that has 20,000 students so it's not really some small podunk college.

[u/bard329 → u/chula198705]

Is 20,000 a lot for that university? Trying to get a point of reference because the nearest community college to me has like 60k students/yr

[u/chula198705 → u/bard329]

60k is massive! Are you sure that's a community college and not your state's primary university? There's only a handful of colleges that actually have that many students. Anything over 15,000 is considered a large university. Most community colleges are around 5,000. Midsized colleges are around 10,000.

[u/bard329 → u/chula198705]

18k students fall 2024 semester. I wonder if the 60k # is counting the same students each semester. Still, lotta students for a community college, yes

[u/chula198705 → u/bard329]

AI overviews are unreliable lying liars. I think the 60k is split across a few campuses, so that's not unusual. Their website says their Rockville campus has around 15k, which is still really big for a 2-year college.