|
08-19-2008, 06:33 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Harvey, IL
1,581 posts, read 939,450 times
Reputation: 454
|
|
Oak Brook vs Hinsdale
If you was wealthy or have enough money, and you had to pick between Oak Brook and Hinsdale, which one of these suburbs would you rather live in and also tell why ?
|
|
08-19-2008, 06:53 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
945 posts, read 749,478 times
Reputation: 157
|
|
|
Hinsdale is charming, Oak Brook is not.
|
|
08-19-2008, 07:01 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2008
1,163 posts, read 847,826 times
Reputation: 487
|
|
If truly wealthy, would argue life's too short to live in either OB/H...
Both suburbs offer large, tasteless houses on puny lots...and a gruesome daily drive into Loop via a notably slower, more problematic freeway than Edens...and none of the elegance of proximity to LkMI that NS suburbs provide....
Would much rather live in Eastern Lake Forest...  |
|
08-19-2008, 07:10 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
945 posts, read 749,478 times
Reputation: 157
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by hsw
If truly wealthy, would argue life's too short to live in either OB/H...
|
ROTFL!
But Hinsdale does have a cute downtown. |
|
08-19-2008, 07:34 PM
|
|
asdf jkl;
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Uptown, Chicago
7,079 posts, read 4,672,568 times
Reputation: 1060
|
|
|
I would stay in the city and buy a huge place on Lakeview Terrace... Or perhaps Astor Street if I were REALLY wealthy. And I'd have a second home on the lake in Winnetka or Lake Forest.
|
|
08-19-2008, 08:52 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2008
75 posts, read 50,789 times
Reputation: 19
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bluchidog
If you was wealthy or have enough money, and you had to pick between Oak Brook and Hinsdale, which one of these suburbs would you rather live in and also tell why ?
|
Hinsdale has the McMansion / McFortress motif going on, Oak Brook has the real mansions and fortressess. Also, in Oak Brook one can get a home on actual acreage, not so much in Hinsdale. That being said, Oak Brook just has the mall and nothing else, Hinsdale has very quaint downtown, pretty rolling hills, very good metra to downtown, very good services. I would choose Hinsdale, mostly for the downtown and the metra service. |
|
08-19-2008, 10:35 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Lincoln Park
779 posts, read 507,604 times
Reputation: 87
|
|
|
if I were truly rich, I would live in the north-amitage corridor near the park and lake
|
|
08-20-2008, 12:49 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Chicago
2,941 posts, read 1,658,512 times
Reputation: 718
|
|
|
I'd go live where the hedgies aren't.
|
|
08-20-2008, 01:32 AM
|
|
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Status:
"The nights grow colder as the darkness takes over."
(set 15 hours ago)
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Chicago
10,393 posts, read 6,431,864 times
Reputation: 1006
|
|
|
I would build a castle in Edison Park or Edgebrook;nestled in the Forest Preserve.
I prefer Oak Brook for reasons not easily explained.
|
|
08-20-2008, 11:15 AM
|
|
Sayer of true stuff
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: And I'm moving, yet again ... KC here I come
5,485 posts, read 4,291,741 times
Reputation: 977
|
|
|
I can't stand Oak Brook and am surprisingly drawn to Hinsdale. Their downtown is too cute. I can't say I'd live in either, but if I were going to it'd be the easiest choice of my life which to pick.
|
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
|
|
Welcome to City-Data.com forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with 700,000 other registered members. User profiles and some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your free account you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 15,000 posts/day about local topics and you will see fewer ads. 
Linear Mode
