Re: Chicago suburbs
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I grew up in Flossmoor. Great schools, good location, easy train access. Also there's a really good microbrewery at the train station.
But, it's to the south and not that close to everything else. Some of the surrounding communities are good also: Homewood, Olympia Fields, parts of Chicago Heights. Others are starting to get pretty ghetto: most of Chicago Heights, Steger, Matteson, etc...
Also I've heard good things about the Orland Park area which is along a different Metra spur, so it's got good train access to the city, but I don't know that much about it. I do know that those metra trains have a bar car, while the electric line that runs down to Flossmoor doesn't.
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I grew up on the south side, and I have to agree that the whole area is really not an ideal place to live.
If you do want to go south, either go VERY south, or go far west ( Mokena, Frankfurt, New Lennox, Monee, Orland Park, Tinley Park ).
Pretty much everything east of 57 is pretty sketchy now.
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