First off I have no idea where you are getting some of this info you are feeding this board, but I guess thats because we are all just a bunch of dumb hicks down here on the south side, you know not coming from Hinsdale where everyone is so intelligent and all
...( people who are educated with well rounded kids,) (Oh brother! LOL!)Kids have to change schools mid-stream? HUH? Since when? I have lived in Orland for many years and maybe years ago like 25 years ago when the boundaries were being adjusted this was the case, but this is TOTALLY false now. The school district's boundaries have not changed now in years. Next, the schools are fair in regards to quality? Again, since when? It just happens that Sandburg for instance was rated a 10 out of 10.
Carl Sandburg High School - Orland Park, Illinois - IL - school overview ??? How much better of a school do you expect? Also not to mention that the district spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decade redoing that school to give it it's current look. Next as for the schools, kids can't walk to them? Maybe if your kid is some lazy ***** 200lb heffer this is the case, but most of the schools are located right in the neighborhoods on the elementary level and if not, the district provides FREE bus service for the kids, so problem solved.
Next, you are right about La Grange being at a standstill, but the part you failed to mention is that there are at least three other streets you can take that all the locals know about to avoid La Grange during those peak times to get you to and from your destinations with ease. (94th Ave, John Humphrey Drive, Ravinia, and if you are way off to the west use West Avenue.) Next in regards to our bad traffic, the state and the village both are funneling in millions of dollars into improving the roads and they are currently under construction for widening which is the reason for the back-ups. I can understand the town leaving people with a sour taste in their mouths though because the only roads you know are La Grange and 159th in Orland of which both are going through some major changes causing horrendous backups, so you see this and say, "the #@ll with this, this is aweful", not realizing there are other roads (local's secret routes) that you don't know about and we do try to keep it a secret really to avoid having those routes all backed up with out of town shopping traffic trying to get to the mall. Just remember though, the barracades on the main routes won't be up forever.
Next, home values aren't going up much? Again, HUH? You must be kidding. The homes aren't priced as high as in Hinsdale, yes, but that doesn't mean that they aren't going up in value as fast if not even faster. Consider this, you buy a home in Hinsdale for $800K and in 10 years it has gone up to $950K which is pretty typical there for your average Hinsdale house, thus yielding you a $150K profit. Now take a similar house and put it into Orland where you will pay maybe $600K for that same house and ten years later it will yield a return of $800K of which in many cases this has been the case (Silo Ridge, Crystal Tree, Deer Creek Estates, etc) yielding you a return of $200K, so which way made you more money? It just looks wierd thats about all, but to be fair, if you are in this to make money, then I wouldn't suggest buying in either town and instead recommend looking in Homer Glen or Lemont and even Lockport right near 355. Those properties are going to yeild the highest returns. Here is some info on the returns on average Orland's homes are producing.
MONEY Magazine: Best places to live 2006: Orland Park, IL snapshot
Another thing is you mention a "newly renovated library" as if Orland doesn't have one of those.. You are right, Orland's is BRAND NEW.
The Orland Park Public Library : About Us
Lastly, of the mentioned things for kids in Hinsdale, Orland has all of. There is a great indoor youth soccer program that goes on at the Orland Park Sportsplex as well as tons of other activities and clubs for kids and if you live in Orland you get a huge discount on the prices for those clubs.
Orland Park - Recreation
About the only negatives you are CURRENTLY correct on is the lack of a downtown, but again that is too going to change.
http://www.orland-park.il.us/econdev...onceptplan.pdf And no there aren't that many tree lined streets as of yet, but they are growing, so look at Orland's streets in 10 years and see what happens.
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01-17-2008, 11:53 AM
Yikes !!!
) lol anyways, so, yes I am extremely well versed in this entire area as well as the less fortunate burbs to the east of here.
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