Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Indianapolis

Options
  • 19-10-2011 2:55pm
    #1
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭


    Just accepted a new job and I'll be sent there to begin with and will have to work there on and off. Anyone know anything about it? All I know is that there's something to do with race car driving there. Anyone been? Any anicdotes about the place? Anything interesting? No? No, didn't think so :(


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Indy 500

    on no wait, you said interesting didnt you..


  • Options
    #3
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭cml387


    I looked it up on Wikipedia on your behalf.

    If I may sum up in terms we'll all understand, it's the Mullingar of the US.


  • Options
    #4
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    cml387 wrote: »
    I looked it up on Wikipedia on your behalf.

    If I may sum up in terms we'll all understand, it's the Mullingar of the US.

    I read about it too. It sounds sh*te! I lived in Calgary, Canada for a while and this sounds like the US equivelent.
    Oh well hopefully the girls are easy, and impressed by accents.


  • Options
    #5
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Brickyard! go see races while you're there if it's on! looks great on telly anyway :o


  • Options
    #6
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    I know a good few people in Indy.

    They hate it.

    Sorry OP.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Shiner11
    Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭Shiner11


    If its anything like Pawnee from Parks and Recreation and if your office has the same amount of fun, it should be unreal craic out there!!


  • Options
    #8
    Thud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭Thud


    Passed through there last year, seemed like a nice clean city. Stayed one night in hotel in the outskirts and only spent a few hours in city centre. Traffic wasn't bad from what i saw. Watched a Colts game in a sports bar, good atmosphere.

    Not far from Chicago, St Louis, Cleveland, Columbus and Louisville so you have a few options for travel.


  • Options
    #9
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Well , it's not downtown Macroom but it will be an experience, enjoy and good luck with it. Nice to hear that someone is getting an oppurtuinity in these dark days.


  • Options
    #10
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    How much are hookers in the states, roughly? None of that streetwalking stuff, like ones that will come to your hotel/motel/holiday inn.


  • Options
    #11
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,392 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    The city center is clean and modern. Some of the outskirts leave something to be desired. Not an ungodly distance from Chicago or Louisville. The motor racing is in Speedway, a suburb. Flat.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    The city center is clean and modern. Some of the outskirts leave something to be desired. Not an ungodly distance from Chicago or Louisville. The motor racing is in Speedway, a suburb. Flat.

    Oh well, nothing spectacular then, I like American food though, and the people, always friendly.


  • Options
    #13
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    After Hours -> USA


  • Options
    #14
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    They are hosting the superbowl in Feburary, so that should be good craic in the city that week....other than that i dont know much else about the city.


  • Options
    #15
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Hazys wrote: »
    They are hosting the superbowl in Feburary, so that should be good craic in the city that week....other than that i dont know much else about the city.

    Really? I thought that was always in New Orleans


  • Options
    #16
    pajunior
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭pajunior


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Really? I thought that was always in New Orleans

    No they move it around the southern states plus a few stadiums that have roofs.

    But yes it is very often in New Orleans or Florida. Probably because of the ridiculous partys.


  • Options
    #17
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Just accepted a new job and I'll be sent there to begin with and will have to work there on and off. Anyone know anything about it? All I know is that there's something to do with race car driving there. Anyone been? Any anicdotes about the place? Anything interesting? No? No, didn't think so :(

    I was there for an F1 race in 2001, just after the 9/11 disaster.

    It is a very clean city, some skyscrapers, nice centre to the city. I remember looking for a shopping centre or mall and the building was very formal looking from outside but great inside.

    My friend and I were walking behind a car as we crossed a street (not much traffic) andit reversed and barely touched my friend, a woman came and said she saw what happened if we wanted to sue the driver, they are very helpful :pac:

    Formal looking but the over riding thing was how clean the place was, exceptionally clean when we were there.


  • Options
    #18
    talkabout
    Registered Users Posts: 695 ✭✭✭talkabout


    I used to live in Washington DC and i spent a long weekend at the F1 race in 2000. From what i recall its a nice enough city with some good bars. We had a fantastic 4 days and the craic with the F1 crowd was mighty. The drive back to DC after 4 days drinking was not good :(


  • Options
    #19
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Just accepted a new job and I'll be sent there to begin with and will have to work there on and off. Anyone know anything about it? All I know is that there's something to do with race car driving there. Anyone been? Any anicdotes about the place? Anything interesting? No? No, didn't think so :(

    I grew up about an hour or so away from there on the Illinois and Indiana border. Can I be the first to say... I am sooooooo very sorry.


  • Options
    #20
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Killer Wench wrote: »
    I grew up about an hour or so away from there on the Illinois and Indiana border. Can I be the first to say... I am sooooooo very sorry.

    haha, oh well it's only for a few weeks, I'm going on Sunday. If I'm lucky immigration might turn me away!


  • Options
    #21
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Killer Wench wrote: »
    I grew up about an hour or so away from there on the Illinois and Indiana border. Can I be the first to say... I am sooooooo very sorry.

    lol, I'm here now, it's quite a dead town alright. I work right downtown but errr there's nothing here really! Have found a few bars and restaurants to while away the evenings (drink) so it's all good, friendly folk too.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    rockonollie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,626 ✭✭✭rockonollie


    Indy is a great city.....plenty to do......and they have one of the up and coming hurling clubs in the US


Advertisement