I lived in Lake Nora for a total of two years so before I begin, it obviously wasn't so bad that I didn't renew my lease. That said, here's how the story goes....

After finishing college I wanted to move back to Indy with little expendable income. When I went to visit Lake Nora, a very friendly woman showed me a two bedroom apartment that I, being used to dreadful college abodes, thought was neat. She explained that they currently had a two bedroom, one bath on the second floor (which I thought would be safer only to find that the outdoor stairs led right up to my patio door that didn't really lock) that had been vacant for a while so she'd cut me a deal: $500 per month. I had looked at a few other garbage apartments and thought this was the steal of the century so I signed my lease. No sooner than I moved in to the apartment did I discover why the apartment had been unrented for so long. I appeared to be the only fully functional, non-disabled person in the building. This was not the end of the world, per say. I'm quite tolerant of people's differences but I would have liked to have known ahead of time. As time progressed I got to know everyone in the building or at least recognized faces. A young deaf guy who lived on the first floor started to knock on my door a few times a week, sometimes wanting to borrow a phone book (which I eventually told him to keep) and other times he would just try to ineffectually communicate with me as I can't sign and he couldn't speak, which would enrage him to the point where I would just shut the door. Eventually, I just didn't answer when he knocked until one afternoon when I was expecting a friend for lunch I opened the door without checking the peep hole first. Of course, it was Joey. I'm not sure what he wanted that day but it ultimately ended with me closing the door which he promptly began kicking. After a while he settled and returned to his place. When my friend arrived, she rushed me to the window to look down at my car. Joey had written a profanity in the snow on my windshield. I was wierded out by the whole situation so I called the office. The woman on the phone told me she'd put it in his file but told me that she was confident Joey wouldn't do anything that would really hurt me and not to worry about the fact that I was a 23 year old woman living alone in a building of mentally disabled people including one overly aggressive deaf guy who liked to kick the hell out of my door and vandalize my car. And that was that.

I later moved into a town house on the lake where we had little trouble. However, during that time the police shot a man in his own apartment at close range who'd locked himself out and broke in to his own apartment and another long time resident committed suicide by drowning himself in the lake in the dead of winter. We regularly had very strange people stop at our patio to talk about star trek, communicating with their dogs through barking, and other odd topics. On one occassion a guy, who I'm pretty sure was high, knocked on our door and asked if we'd like to come to a party. He said he'd seen us through the sliding glass doors and thought we looked cool. Several units were broken into during my stay and the cops were always responding to something or another.

Its been close to three years since I lived in Lake Nora but I'm confident there are better choices in town. The age of the complex totally works against them and we continuously had trouble with shorted circuits, no hot water, and other problems of infrastructure. The neighborhood is, however, very pet friendly but naturally the dog owners are not always responsible when it comes to picking up after their animals thus disease is a concern. My dog caught two rough viruses while we lived in Lake Nora and she hasn't been sick since we left.

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