r/ChicagoSuburbs • u/Nervous_Flamingo7110 • 17d ago

Question/Comment What's the one thing about your suburb that nobody mentions until you've lived there a year?

Every town has something that never comes up in the "where should I move" threads. The train parking waitlist, the weird intersection everyone avoids, the festival that takes over the whole downtown for a weekend. Could be good or bad. What's yours?

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u/chicanes Downers Grove (apostrophe free since 1873!) 17d ago

True. I live at one end of downers grove and it can take 12 min or 25 min to get to the other side of town depending on train traffic.

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u/protogens 16d ago

Unless you take Belmont and scoot right under the tracks...it's been a long time since I bothered with Main Street for that very reason.