Hanover Park or Schaumburg (Chicago, Aurora: appointed, sales, condos)

[disappointed]

Hello,

My job is relocating me to Mount Prospect. I've been looking at Bolingbrook, Aurora, Hanover Park, Naperville, and Schaumburg. I am looking for a suburb that offers everything nice downtown, culture diversity, low commute time and nice people. I am looking for the 800-900 range. Please help. Thanks all in advance for your suggestions.

[christinar]

Why are you looking in that area to live? Because that is quite far from where you will be working. I live in the Elgin area and am very knowledgeable about the areas in the Chicagoland burbs. I think you should look a little closer. I can try and help in any way.

[disappointed]

What would you suggest? I want a small town feel.

[KalicoKat]

Hi Disappointed!

Schaumburg isn't too far from Mount Prospect. Neither is Niles, Des Plaines, Deerfield (I think..), Arlington Heights or Inverness. I'm not too familiar with the northwest suburbs, but these are the ones that come to mind at the moment. Park Ridge is also a very nice suburb to check out.

A good idea would be to type the names of the suburbs into the Google search engine to get information about the various suburbs near Mount Prospect. Mount Prospect itself is very nice but, with about 58,000-59,000 people, it's more like a small city than a small town.

Good luck Disappointed, and I hope this helps a little.

[Barb]

Schaumburg and Hanover Park are crowded cities with congested roads. Neither has a small-town feel. Medinah and Roselle both do, but they are somewhat far from Mount Prospect. Arlington Heights is next to Mt. Prospect. It has lost its hometown feeling and is experiencing massive property development and along with it the associated problems - higher property taxes, rising sales taxes, overcrowding, road rage, no parking in downtown areas, long lines at grocery stores. Avoid it unless you have the patience of a saint and don't get frazzled by anything.

Park Ridge is a somewhat more upper-range suburb that still has a somewhat small-town feeling. If you want the Northwest suburbs, I'd pick it. Older, well-constructed homes, great schools, on the Metra line to Chicago, and minutes from Mt. Prospect.

[Mikeb33]

For $800,000 - $900,000 you could do very well in Inverness. Inverness is an upscale, unicorporated village with a minimun 1 acre lot size. It is like living in the county, but you are 5 minutes form the train, Woodfield Mall, I-90, I-355, and almost anything.

Mike

[danarchy]

Originally Posted by Mikeb33

For $800,000 - $900,000 you could do very well in Inverness.

Mike

thanks, i needed reminding of why i moved from crystal lake to northern minnesota. = 100 acres and a darn decent house for 150K

[cavewoman]

lots of great neighborhoods in Bolingbrook.

[silvermelanie]

hi,
schaumburg, most definately. i have lived here for over 11 years and love it. you do need a car to get around but it is a clean burb with great schools and tons of shopping. also near xway for commuting around town.hanover or hangover park as some around here call it is ok, but if you have school age kids schaumburg has a better school district
melanie silve

[cdrobert]

See the problem with what you are looking for is that you are looking for 5different things, which as far as the chicago suburbs go, don't co exist very often.

Commute: Well if you work in Mount Prospect you are going to want to live in Arlington Heights, thats a no brainer. Its the next town over!

Nice down town: Well if you want the nicest downtown in the suburbs you are going to want to go to naperville. But naperville could be an irritating free way commute you would have to take 355 until it becomes 53 until you meet i90(which that time of the day will be gridlocked). That commute would take the live outta ya.

Cultural Diversity: Shaumburg has a very a more diverse population as does hanover park. How ever Hanover Park tends to be a bit more blue collar than shaumburg.

Nice people: Well with your price range any neighborhood that has homes worth around what you are looking will probably be filled with nice people.


Small town feel: Your in the chicago suburbs. The suburbs sprawl out magestically for miles! Places like desplains and mount prospect many feel are starting to have a more urban influence. (Examples, older housing stock, medium density developement of condos and town homes, mass tear downs)

you have to move to the outskirts for that small town feel! the barrington inverness area is on the outskirts of the nw suburbs and tends to have a small town feel ( keep in mind lack of immediate freeway connections means one lane roads in addition to free way traffic could be brutal for your commute)

If i were to take all the things you asked for in a suburb and were to shake it up in a bottle, i would personally come up with buffalo grove.