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Old 06-26-2014, 09:25 AM
 
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Check out the Oak Park area. I also moved here from NoVA about a year ago (and love it, btw) and Oak Park is kind of what Arlington/Alexandria are to D.C..
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Old 06-26-2014, 02:01 PM
 
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Check out the Oak Park area. I also moved here from NoVA about a year ago (and love it, btw) and Oak Park is kind of what Arlington/Alexandria are to D.C..
I have spent a lot of time in Oak Park as well as Arlington and Alexandria. While the commute time to someplace like the King St Metro or Braddock Rd from the "working" part of DC might be similar to taking a Green or Blue line El to Oak Park from the Loop most Alexandria is FAR MORE COSTLY than Oak Park, very different in lay out and frankly not as "urban" Of course these things are more pronounced if you look at Arlington and the way that Federal offices, proximately to Reagan National and related firms have really remade that town...

The overall topographic features of the Potomoc have no analogous separation in the Chicago region whatsoever. Folks that drive to work in Schaumburg or Oak Brook or Lake Co do so over roads that are linear spokes out from Chicago...

Similarly the extensive "spokes" of the Chicago region commuter rail enables very efficient travel to towns with charm and character much further from the core. There are parts of Naperville or Barrington that have much more in common with DC's suburbs, and parts of Hinsdale or Winnetaka / Glencoe / Kenilworth where cost per sq ft is more along the lines of DC's aristrocracy...

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