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Thank you for the video. I lived in Elmhurst 1942 to 1956. Wonderful place. And it looks like it is still a place to build many good memories.

No I don't think I will. Sorry.

hey guys can you do a tour of highland park il and crystal lake il if possible?

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anyone know if Belleville is a good neighborhood? Safe etc....

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.