Poll finds newcomers like it best in NW Indiana - Post-Trib.com
September 29, 2009
Northwest Indiana's newest residents are among its happiest, says a poll of region dwellers released Tuesday.
A survey of 400 people in Lake, Porter, Jasper and Newton counties found region residents are among the least "attached" to their community among 26 metropolitan areas in the "Soul of the Community" study commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. But survey respondents who have lived in the region six years or fewer had a better opinion of Northwest Indiana, noted Knight Foundation consultant Katherine Loflin.
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