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Old 08-29-2007, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Arizona
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Does anyone know anything about Hanover Park? I love Bloomingdale & Roselle but to expensive for me so the only suburb I have found that is affordable, and near there, and has alot for sale is Hanover Park. Is this a bad place to raise kids?
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Old 08-29-2007, 12:38 PM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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Does anyone know anything about Hanover Park? I love Bloomingdale & Roselle but to expensive for me so the only suburb I have found that is affordable, and near there, and has alot for sale is Hanover Park. Is this a bad place to raise kids?
Its not the greatest place, Id recommend not moving there. I find Carol Stream to be much nicer and almost as affordable. Hanover Park is very diverse, but the homes are old and most are not well-kept. There are some decent areas, but those are the unaffordable areas. Think of Hanover Park as a Mesa, AZ, but w/o the desert. Not horrible, but not really recommended by natives. Hope this makes sense...
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Old 08-30-2007, 12:38 AM
 
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Got cha that makes total sense to me I will keep that in mind thanks steve-o
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Old 08-30-2007, 01:19 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Hanover Park, at least from a community standpoint, has to be one of the most awful places in the Chicago area. And I don't mean because it's crime-ridden or because the people suck or because the schools are pitiful (though maybe they are, I don't know...) What makes Hanover Park awful is that it is literally NOTHING but housing tracts and strip malls. No downtown, no central focus, no unifying community feature(s), nothing but field after field of houses. Cheaply built, aesthetically dull houses in annoying, incoherent, winding, isolated cul-de-sac layouts. Hanover Park actually lives up to every negative stereotype that self-styled urban sophisticates attribute to much of suburbia. I couldn't think of a more dreadfully boring place to live.
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Old 08-30-2007, 08:47 AM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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Hanover Park, at least from a community standpoint, has to be one of the most awful places in the Chicago area. And I don't mean because it's crime-ridden or because the people suck or because the schools are pitiful (though maybe they are, I don't know...) What makes Hanover Park awful is that it is literally NOTHING but housing tracts and strip malls. No downtown, no central focus, no unifying community feature(s), nothing but field after field of houses. Cheaply built, aesthetically dull houses in annoying, incoherent, winding, isolated cul-de-sac layouts. Hanover Park actually lives up to every negative stereotype that self-styled urban sophisticates attribute to much of suburbia. I couldn't think of a more dreadfully boring place to live.
Dang, you stated that well. How come I can never be descriptive? lol

LeavingAZ, Drover nailed it perfectly.
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Old 08-30-2007, 11:01 AM
 
Location: Arizona
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So then are you saying I will feel at home there cause that is exactly how AZ is! hahahahaha just kidding Well all the suburbs I love are because they have there historic downtowns and sense of community so maybe that wouldnt be the best place to live, But I have to do what I can afford to just to know Im in Chicago would make me happy
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Old 08-30-2007, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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So then are you saying I will feel at home there cause that is exactly how AZ is! hahahahaha just kidding Well all the suburbs I love are because they have there historic downtowns and sense of community so maybe that wouldnt be the best place to live, But I have to do what I can afford to just to know Im in Chicago would make me happy
Well, best of luck. How much are you willing to spend on a house? A price range would help narrow things down.
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Old 08-30-2007, 10:23 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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no more then 250,000 I have a big wish list I guess 2 car garage 3 beds 2 bath and I would love a basement with maybe a bed and bath down there for when visitors come.
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Old 08-30-2007, 10:33 PM
 
Location: Chicago, Tri-Taylor
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Hanover Park, at least from a community standpoint, has to be one of the most awful places in the Chicago area. And I don't mean because it's crime-ridden or because the people suck or because the schools are pitiful (though maybe they are, I don't know...) What makes Hanover Park awful is that it is literally NOTHING but housing tracts and strip malls. No downtown, no central focus, no unifying community feature(s), nothing but field after field of houses. Cheaply built, aesthetically dull houses in annoying, incoherent, winding, isolated cul-de-sac layouts. Hanover Park actually lives up to every negative stereotype that self-styled urban sophisticates attribute to much of suburbia. I couldn't think of a more dreadfully boring place to live.
LOL Don't hold back Drover, tell us how you really feel. My brother lived in Hanover for a time in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I don't remember anything positive or negative about it one way or other, beyond a trash dump which was somewhere near the house he was renting out. It was just sort of, I don't know, the Chicago Suburbs. That, of course, probably lends support to your comments. With all of the interesting places to live in Chicagoland, I don't see what the appeal would be either, unless you work near there.
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Old 08-31-2007, 05:48 AM
 
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Am I imagining? Did we not already have this question about moving and Hanover Park with this same op just weeks ago??Seems like I am having Deja vu'

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