Moving to Bloomingdale (real estate, new home, employment)

[Choosey]

hello!

My husband and I are a week away from moving to Bloomingdale. I am so nervous and getting cold feet about the move!! (Currently live in the city). I love the house we bought but I don't know as much as I should about the neighborhood. Anyone out there live in Bloomingdale and love it?

Thank you!!

[ToriaT]

No but I go through it a lot and it seems to be a nice place. Lots of good shops around and some restaurants. YOu can easily get to a bunch of other places too just by going on a short drive. NOthing to worry about.

[holl1ngsworth]

Originally Posted by Choosey

hello!

My husband and I are a week away from moving to Bloomingdale. I am so nervous and getting cold feet about the move!! (Currently live in the city). I love the house we bought but I don't know as much as I should about the neighborhood. Anyone out there live in Bloomingdale and love it?

Thank you!!

You worry me. Why would you move to a town you admittedly don't know enough about?

TOWN IMPORTANCE > HOUSE IMPORTANCE

[Choosey]

I know about the town. I don't think I can personally feel like I know enough about it until I actually live in it. So, I was hoping for some insiders point of view.

Thank you so much for worrying about me though. I really appreciate it!

[nikitakolata]

I lived in Bloomingdale for all of elementary and middle school in the Indian Lakes subdivision. It was a fun neighborhood to grow up in and I have good memories of living there. It was a good location for getting around the region and there is a lot of shopping, which was convenient. I can't really think of anything bad to say about Bloomingdale.

[chet everett]

There are certainly LOTS of places that are not as safe, do not have as much shopping, are more expensive, and generally not as good as value as Bloomingdale. That said, it is among the more car centric towns in DuPage Co and is not really as desirable as more traditionally styled towns that have an aesthetic and layout more evocative of quaint areas like one finds in New England villages.

It is entirely common to have feelings of "cold feet" and the name that is often associated with this is called "buyers remorse". So long as you and your spouse have done your homework and understand what sorts of value specific towns represent not just in terms of the specific home, but the neighborhood and the schools you will probably be fine. There are several larger employment centers accessible from Bloomingdale and if the move means a shorter commute that should be a real plus. Similarly, if you are coming from the city the relative amount of space you'll be getting and the significant increase in quiet could be literally life changing.

Every real estate decision involves many trade offs; I urge you to assess the positives as well as identify the negatives to reassure yourself that you, like thousands of home buyers before you, will experience some doubts but will ultimately very likely come to really treasure your new home.

There are all kinds of ways to come to term with your feelings. I recommend something similar to this:"

...it’s an issue, because we allow ourselves to fall victim to the comparison game.

Love something, not because someone else has it. Not because of influential trends. Not because we feel pressured to please our mother in law’s sister’s mom…. We need to love our home as we learn to create, edit and appreciate it for what it is… made of what we love. In the present. Being happily content with what we have in the meantime.

Our choices, and our current, real life struggles are sometimes reflected quite clearly in our homes. Do you find it easy to get a bad case of ‘the inadequacies’ and sucked in to the comparison game? How can this play out in our homes, if we’re not careful?

buyer's remorse anony : the comparison gamethe handmade home

I further know many excellent salespeople that rely on a simple exercise to keep buyers from going off the rails --

Practice countering negative opinions about your product with facts and highlights.

3 Ways to Overcome Buyer's Remorse - Maximizer Blog

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by chet everett

That said, it is among the more car centric towns in DuPage Co and is not really as desirable as more traditionally styled towns that have an aesthetic and layout more evocative of quaint areas like one finds in New England villages.

I don't disagree, but have you seen that weird little "Old Town Bloomingdale" at Lake Street and Bloomingdale Road? It seems like they tried to create this old downtown feel, but it just didn't quite work out. After all, Bloomingdale's roots were as a farming village before the march of suburbia swallowed it up in the 20th Century. But it still provides some space for small festivals, and they do seem to use that gazebo for things. It's certainly better than nothing, and provides at least a small gathering point for the community.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

I don't disagree, but have you seen that weird little "Old Town Bloomingdale" at Lake Street and Bloomingdale Road? It seems like they tried to create this old downtown feel, but it just didn't quite work out. After all, Bloomingdale's roots were as a farming village before the march of suburbia swallowed it up in the 20th Century. But it still provides some space for small festivals, and they do seem to use that gazebo for things. It's certainly better than nothing, and provides at least a small gathering point for the community.

I imagine that some firm that specializes in municipal land use and such considers this a "win" in their PR materials but the overall impact it has on Bloomingdale is minimal.

Even towns along the route of the North Central rail line simply have not been able to capitalize on their stations to the same degree that towns with deeper historical ties to railways.

It is almost hard not to sound a little like an architecture professor (or wine snob) but there really is no substitute for "organic growth".

In the context of the OP's concerns, there are plenty of people that probably do not care about such things and might even make fun of those us who do notice how the evolution of "public spaces" is dictated by transportation needs and as long as they are comfortable with how their new home fits in with needs like getting to work and interactions socially things likely will work out fine. The efforts to program event at Bloomingdale's Old Town are a plus -- Summer Concert Series | Bloomingdale, IL - Official Website

[nikitakolata]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

I don't disagree, but have you seen that weird little "Old Town Bloomingdale" at Lake Street and Bloomingdale Road? It seems like they tried to create this old downtown feel, but it just didn't quite work out. After all, Bloomingdale's roots were as a farming village before the march of suburbia swallowed it up in the 20th Century. But it still provides some space for small festivals, and they do seem to use that gazebo for things. It's certainly better than nothing, and provides at least a small gathering point for the community.

It's better than nothing, but when we lived there it wasn't an area we went to with any regularity. Of course, maybe that's because my parents were just busy with their jobs and 3 kids close in age. I always thought old town was odd.

We did use the park district pool, library and Stratford Square and Bloomingdale Court ALL the time though.

[Choosey]

Thanks for the feedback so far! ��