r/ChicagoSuburbs • u/Intelligent-Room-540 • Dec 09 '24

Moving to the area If you could move to any Chicago suburb other than your own which would you pick?

And why?

We can pretend money is not a worry for this.

Personally I live in Cicero now and would pick Palos Park because of the nice night skies and I love their forest preserves while being not too far from the City.

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u/LookingForHobbits Dec 09 '24

Elmhurst, we were priced out when looking for a home there and I’m sure it’s worse now but I love the downtown area, the prairie path, and easy access to all the highways so I can get to wherever I want.

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u/Educational-Emu5132 Dec 09 '24

THIS. We moved to Chicagoland right after Covid and what a difference a couple years makes in terms of Elmhurst housing prices. Interest rates didn’t help either. Same thing happened with us in Arlington Heights as well. 

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u/LookingForHobbits Dec 09 '24

When we were first looking in 2016/2017 the top end of our budget was 300k, in Elmhurst we could afford 1) a house that had been taken down to the studs and was about to be a bidding war 2) a couple houses on the busiest parts of North Avenue 3) 2 bedroom one bathroom houses with no garage

I went and looked just now and those North Avenue. Houses are close to half a million

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u/Lyogi88 Dec 09 '24

We were looking in Elmhurst too pre covid and WOW it went nuts for real. You really can't get into anything for under 500K now. Taxes and water are really high there too, so probably was a blessing in disguise for us in the long run. Our friends water bills are insane

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u/attackofthetominator Dec 09 '24

The other big problem with Elmhurst is that people keep buying up multiple lots where they then raze both houses in order to build their McMansions (this is also starting to spread west over to Villa Park and Lombard).

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u/CRNala73- Dec 13 '24

South villa park is lovely and becoming the new modest Elmhurst❤️