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no big city in america can compete with new york. chicagoland is flat and kind of boring to be honest. little natural beauty in cook county. only a handful of big cities are worth visiting and spending money as a tourist. chicago is not that interesting when you remove the tall buildings.

The most boring city ever

As someone who lives in Illinois this screams “the grass has to be greener on the other side!” Illinois home ownership is a myth at my finicial level

Pov u live in Skokie and has more fun in Chicago

My dad grew up there and I spent most of my Childhood there!

Nice video. Thank you. I appreciate your research. Census data is up to date.

Didn't the founder of Oakbrook son Micheal spend all his money on cocaine, he was doing with The Rolling stones & had to file bankruptcy.

Lol 😂 I needed a good laugh ! That cow needs to kick over another lantern again...

We went to Funway in 1981,

My friends middle name is Downer his great grandfather founded the town.

I live off of Hobson Rd in Woodridge.

My family is from the NYC suburbs, but long ago we lived in Downers Grove for three years (1967-69). We loved it there. I attended the Avery Coonley private school.

Ive lived in half of the communities you listed and theres a few critical things worth mentioning.... Libertyville and Buffalo Grove are not places to live if you are single. -Libertyville is also VERY expensive EVERYWHERE! Evanston becomes a ghost town after 9pm on weekends. Most of the "college kids" go to Chicago to party or stay inside their homes, so you wont be seeing any outdoor parties or hearing nosies at most college towns. -Also, most families stay in after 9pm, so the nightlife is nonexistent.

I will be definitely reaching out to try and work with you once I am not broke with no car living in a friends grandmas basement learning how to build garages

Hi I want living in Naperville but I liked Beaverton in Oregon, who is best neighbourhood ?

I spent the first 25 years of my life in NYC and still have family I visit regularly there and have lived in Chicago for the past 20 years, so i consider myself native level fluent in both cities. I missed NYC when I first moved to Chicago, but after a couple of years I came to realize that my life in Chicago no longer translates to NYC. My mortgage for a four bedroom home in Wicker Park (which is similar to a hybrid of Williamsburg, Park Slope and East Village) is only slightly higher than my rent for a one bedroom walk up on the Upper East Side. And Wicker Park is a far more progressive neighborhood than dull UES. The smallest bedroom in my house is the same size as the bedroom I had in Manhattan, and I turned that bedroom into my closet. I literally have too much stuff to ever return to NYC because no home in an equivalent neighborhood is large enough to accommodate me anymore. Maybe a $10 million brownstone in Brooklyn Heights or $25 million brownstone in Greenwich Village? My home has a garden, roof deck, backyard, but here's the best part - I'm STILL within walking distance of everything from sushi to Indian food to live music venues to clubs. I haven't had to give up much of anything about what I loved about living in NYC to have all of this in Chicago and a whole lot more. I'd have to give up 75% of my worldly possessions to find a place to move back to in NYC. Yeah NYC may have more "stuff" but let's be honest, here. Most people living (not visiting, LIVING) are too busy hustling to afford their studio apartment to take advantage of half the stuff they brag about having access to in NYC. Don't lie to me because I was one of you. You've been to Joe's once since you moved here. You still haven't been able to get reservations to any of the top restaurants yet. You can count on one hand the number of times you've hung out in any part of NYC other than your own borough or below 59th street in Manhattan. You only go to Katz's to flex when your friends or family are in town. And you still haven't gotten around to seeing a Broadway play, ballet, or the symphony. You spend your average weekend doing the same thing most people in most cities do - you join your local gym, meet your friends at the closest bar on your block, get General Tso's chicken on DoorDash, and watch Netflix while eating it. Your life would translate just fine in Chicago. For a good chunk of you, your life would translate just fine in Cleveland. Posers.

So I’m sure NYC has better public transportation if 78% of its population uses it regularly. But how do they not have a train that goes directly to LaGuardia? Thats ridiculous. Chicago’s transit line goes to both Midway and O’Hare. Just saying….

And let’s talk about these landscapers one more time… Do you think they stop for the mother pushing the stroller? No of course not. Imagine your child, ingesting bugs and pesticides and round up pulverized and blown in the air. I understand it’s every towns problem but that’s Elmhurst in a nutshell. The bright side is winter. They all go away. Summer… Filthy… Winter they’re gone.

Let’s take off the rose colored glasses for just one second and address something about Elmhurst. Your neighbor hires these landscapers that will trim your property nicely and pulverize everything. And then… Guess what they do with the dirt and debris? They blow all their debris on their neighbor. And in the street. So all your pesticide bug infested animal feces, infested landscape debris that has round up in it is blown on your neighbors house. Or they blow it in the street so you drive down the street every day recycling stuff that should be left in the lawn, but now it’s dust in the street. Chopped up bugs… Round up… Pesticides… And that will go on every single day living in Elmhurst. It’s filthy town that looks like something pleasant. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a nice town, but it’s a filthy town with nonprofessional landscapers on every block every house. It’s the blower… That tool is stupid. And in the fall… They chop up those leaves and don’t pick up one leaf. All of it goes onto your house all from your neighbor. Crazy huh?

Thanks for the great video. I wish it included travel times to Chicago via the Metra.

It was a millionaires neighborhood

Empty nest at exactly the word there's no one going to be living in that place we must be crazy

Every so often I get jumpscared with home- I always forget people remember we exist!

What most people do NOT understand is that those who control the State & Federal treasury are placing a great financial burden on the homeowners and the landlords by constantly increasing their taxes and creating new regulations that restrict our ability to keep paying for the services that they say we have to provide for those who do not want to work! Since I purchased my home the property taxes have increased from $1200 a year to $6300/year. And I know of others that have been taxed out of their homes because of its location! They are retired and the taxes are more than their retirement income!

Schaumburg and Arlington Heights are two more hidden gems to consider!

What about Berwyn? Affordable, great access to the city, huge stock of wonderful bungalow homes, , most areas safe.

I grew up here. Loved it.

boo Nappervile Central better 👎

Lyons is mostly a bunch of strip joints.

Can you please give us idea about Lockport? Good / safe/ schools/ public transportation to downtown? Thank you

lol anyone living in IL aka the 2nd HIGHEST taxed state for home ownership makes me giggle. My brother and I both owned a 200k home and I was paying $1,000 annually in AZ, while he payed $4,000 in property taxes. Can you imagine lighting 3000$ a year on fire? If you took 3000$ a year and put it in an IRA with 6% interest, you would have 254,000$ at the end of a 30 year mortgage. Heck no.

Sky high taxes, Illegals on every corner and rampant crime. What's not to like!?!?

Bro what? Is this click bait? Chicago is a B/B+ market. Is good even great in some places bjt come on 😂

Cook county is a mafia... Got 42% property tax increase last summer... Total joke.

Glenbard south, the building was designed by a prison architect. Very gloomy and depressing.

they just opened a comedy club too!

Then why is everyone from Chicago infesting Wisconsin? Especially low income barnacles.

Because I live by Chicago that’s why people want to be around a god can you blame them!

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I live in Arlington Hts and it's great here. I also like Evanston, Northbrook, Glenview, Deerfield, Skokie, Schaumburg, Mt Prospect, Niles, and Barrington.

How much to buy?

Larger Companies have moved out of both Chicago and New York City

It’s been the best lived here all my life 41 years and still

Folks complaining about property taxes in IL usually miss the fact that it's one of the reason prices don't shoot up as bad as say California. Artificially low property taxes can be a disaster for the public.

The problem is these communities are only for people with advance level degrees or trust fund kids. The rest of us have no chance to live in these communities. I grew up in Waukegan, now live in Winthrop Harbor. I would have been looked down upon as a kid in the 80’s. The only reason white people live in Waukegan is for the historic homes along Sheridan rd. The rest of the city is a ghetto, that I would suggest staying away from.

100 Most Dangerous* US Cities (2024) based on FBI data. NYC #73. Chicago is not on the list. 1 Memphis Tennessee 624,944 16,076 25.72 52,892 84.63 1 2 Detroit Michigan 626,757 12,565 20.05 28,958 46.20 19 3 Little Rock Arkansas 201,513 3,658 18.15 10,987 54.52 6 4 Cleveland Ohio 363,764 5,766 15.85 16,521 45.42 21 5 Pueblo Colorado 112,618 1,621 14.39 6,110 54.25 8 6 Kansas City Missouri 508,856 7,245 14.24 24,896 48.93 16 7 Baltimore Maryland 570,546 8,092 14.18 22,976 40.27 33 8 St. Louis Missouri 286,053 4,026 14.07 17,833 62.34 2 9 Lansing Michigan 112,567 1,561 13.87 3,111 27.64 94 10 Beaumont Texas 110,898 1,526 13.76 3,669 33.08 58 11 Milwaukee Wisconsin 561,743 7,114 12.66 13,759 24.49 118 12 Peoria Illinois 110,551 1,335 12.08 4,239 38.34 38 13 Albuquerque New Mexico 560,557 6,680 11.92 22,875 40.81 28 14 Stockton California 323,501 3,699 11.43 9,648 29.82 75 15 Rockford Illinois 146,710 1,673 11.40 3,914 26.68 99 16 Minneapolis Minnesota 421,690 4,767 11.30 22,121 52.46 11 17 Springfield Missouri 169,822 1,917 11.29 6,929 40.80 29 18 Evansville Indiana 115,719 1,295 11.19 4,163 35.98 49 19 Chattanooga Tennessee 182,603 2,023 11.08 8,982 49.19 15 20 Nashville Tennessee 679,562 7,500 11.04 29,573 43.52 23 21 Toledo Ohio 266,984 2,898 10.85 7,516 28.15 90 22 Houston Texas 2,276,533 24,275 10.66 98,569 43.30 24 23 Anchorage Alaska 285,821 3,026 10.59 8,242 28.84 86 24 Washington District of Columbia 671,803 7,069 10.52 28,097 41.82 25 25 Dayton Ohio 137,084 1,419 10.35 6,081 44.36 22 26 Denver Colorado 705,264 7,247 10.28 40,782 57.83 3 27 Indianapolis Indiana 886,455 8,990 10.14 32,121 36.24 48 28 Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1,555,812 15,153 9.74 78,048 50.17 13 29 Aurora Colorado 392,134 3,773 9.62 14,679 37.43 42 30 Bakersfield California 411,873 3,937 9.56 13,545 32.89 59 31 North Charleston South Carolina 119,198 1,105 9.27 5,557 46.62 18 32 Billings Montana 117,866 1,073 9.10 4,326 36.70 47 33 Tulsa Oklahoma 410,135 3,700 9.02 15,900 38.77 36 34 Mobile Alabama 239,323 2,138 8.93 5,895 24.63 116 35 Salt Lake City Utah 201,373 1,777 8.82 11,535 57.28 5 36 Grand Rapids Michigan 196,662 1,728 8.79 5,985 30.43 69 37 Springfield Massachusetts 155,046 1,356 8.75 4,596 29.64 77 38 Fayetteville North Carolina 208,980 1,826 8.74 6,406 30.65 67 39 Newport News Virginia 183,903 1,572 8.55 4,538 24.68 114 40 Lubbock Texas 264,142 2,257 8.54 8,270 31.31 63 41 Paterson New Jersey 156,292 1,331 8.52 3,762 24.07 123 42 Corpus Christi Texas 317,694 2,699 8.50 9,925 31.24 64 43 Greensboro North Carolina 298,719 2,516 8.42 11,221 37.56 40 44 Knoxville Tennessee 194,724 1,615 8.29 6,172 31.70 61 45 Sacramento California 526,671 4,271 8.11 14,949 28.38 88 46 Vallejo California 123,940 990 7.99 5,045 40.71 30 47 Springfield Illinois 112,549 896 7.96 5,344 47.48 17 48 Phoenix Arizona 1,637,902 13,033 7.96 41,249 25.18 110 49 Seattle Washington 729,691 5,790 7.93 36,902 50.57 12 50 Akron Ohio 188,534 1,470 7.80 5,566 29.52 79 51 Gainesville Florida 140,869 1,084 7.70 4,211 29.89 73 52 Charlotte Mecklenburg North Carolina 955,466 7,109 7.44 37,800 39.56 35 53 Inglewood California 102,879 761 7.40 3,781 36.75 46 54 West Palm Beach Florida 117,393 858 7.31 2,850 24.28 121 55 Buffalo New York 275,710 2,013 7.30 11,496 41.70 26 56 Amarillo Texas 201,572 1,456 7.22 6,206 30.79 65 57 Fresno California 546,871 3,948 7.22 16,407 30.00 72 58 Rochester New York 210,270 1,513 7.20 10,435 49.63 14 59 Lakewood Colorado 157,068 1,118 7.12 7,203 45.86 20 60 Spokane Washington 229,292 1,618 7.06 12,335 53.80 10 61 Des Moines3 Iowa 210,376 1,479 7.03 6,999 33.27 56 62 Portland Oregon 630,129 4,384 6.96 36,105 57.30 4 63 San Antonio Texas 1,465,608 10,175 6.94 79,526 54.26 7 64 Cincinnati Ohio 307,761 2,124 6.90 12,212 39.68 34 65 Colorado Springs Colorado 487,728 3,363 6.90 17,970 36.84 44 66 Columbia South Carolina 137,768 948 6.88 4,888 35.48 51 67 Davenport Iowa 100,437 679 6.76 3,717 37.01 43 68 Dallas Texas 1,286,121 8,681 6.75 51,939 40.38 31 69 Pomona California 145,600 974 6.69 4,229 29.05 83 70 St. Paul Minnesota 277,533 1,849 6.66 9,267 33.39 55 71 Durham North Carolina 286,377 1,880 6.56 11,094 38.74 37 72 Anaheim California 344,795 2,261 6.56 8,319 24.13 122 *73 New York New York 8,236,567 53,687 6.52 192,219 23.34 126* 74 South Fulton Georgia 110,102 717 6.51 3,151 28.62 87 75 Hayward California 156,458 1,009 6.45 5,979 38.21 39 76 Modesto California 219,083 1,400 6.39 4,784 21.84 138 77 Brockton Massachusetts 110,084 689 6.26 2,164 19.66 152 78 Long Beach California 447,528 2,734 6.11 13,096 29.26 81 79 Pasadena Texas 145,954 888 6.08 4,000 27.41 96 80 Oxnard California 201,517 1,211 6.01 3,429 17.02 172 81 Reno Nevada 273,671 1,625 5.94 7,283 26.61 100 82 Santa Maria California 109,518 639 5.83 2,485 22.69 131 83 Las Cruces New Mexico 114,102 662 5.80 6,140 53.81 9 84 Fairfield California 119,583 685 5.73 2,609 21.82 139 85 Glendale Arizona 250,466 1,434 5.73 7,247 28.93 84 86 Warren Michigan 137,138 766 5.59 2,505 18.27 158 87 Elizabeth New Jersey 134,065 746 5.56 3,983 29.71 76 88 Riverside California 319,889 1,754 5.48 10,609 33.16 57 89 Raleigh North Carolina 470,829 2,543 5.40 12,480 26.51 101 90 Fargo North Dakota 127,649 688 5.39 5,141 40.27 32 91 Norfolk Virginia 233,419 1,235 5.29 8,750 37.49 41 92 Pasadena California 133,312 695 5.21 3,420 25.65 104 93 Waco Texas 140,911 734 5.21 3,937 27.94 93 94 Mesquite Texas 147,226 754 5.12 5,419 36.81 45 95 Miami3 Florida 437,900 2,227 5.09 13,268 30.30 71 96 Tempe Arizona 187,473 946 5.05 6,607 35.24 53 97 Austin Texas 965,234 4,859 5.03 31,393 32.52 60 98 Fort Worth Texas 948,605 4,738 4.99 25,631 27.02 98 99 New Bedford Massachusetts 101,402 505 4.98 1,571 15.49 184 100 Wilmington North Carolina 119,159 592 4.97 4,276 35.88 50 * Dangerous = murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Source: PopulationU d*t c*m Date: 2024

High-end shopping huh it's not retiring my friend that is the usual