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Originally Posted by jtown,man
Sweet tour man. I know people value different things at different ages, but what neighborhood did/do you like the most?
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that's impossible to really answer.
each neighborhood provided what i wanted/needed at each life stage.
but if i had a gun to my head, since i'm happier now than i ever have been at any previous stage of life, i guess i'd say lincoln square is my favorite because we were lucky to get a wonderful home for our family in a wonderful family-friendly city neighborhood.
i also greatly appreciated the house/neighborhood i was raised in up in wilmette, but looking back upon it now, the north shore burbs of chicago are pretty damn "bubbly". very pleasant, but not terribly real.
i can say that rogers park was probably my least favorite, but that was more related to the fact that it was one of the low points in my life. also, i was like a 12 minute walk to the nearest el station, and with the exception of my college years up in the twin cities, i've never lived more than a 5 minute walk or so from an el station. being walkably close to rail transit has always been a kind of security blanket for me. it probably comes from growing up in wilmette a couple blcoks from the end of the line stop on the el's purple line. growing up, the purple line was like a lifeline to the magic of the city for me, and it must have gotten ingrained in my mind that one simply must always live close to an el stop to feel that connection to the magic of the city.