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Originally posted by RickM
...and the "Nicest" places to live.....
Rank Best place Pop.* Nearest city
3 Naperville, IL 163,900 Chicago
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Funny, I ran screaming from Naperville after high school and never looked back.
I had a friend in high school who lived in White Eagle. His parents had a 5,000 sq. ft. house and a Mercedes and a BMW in the garage. What you couldn't see from the street was that they were leveraged to the hilt, could only afford to put furniture in the rooms that faced the street, and could barely afford to feed their family. This was in the
early 90's, way before the dot-com bust.
I know of many families in the area who ran up $10,000's in credit card debt in the early 2000's to keep up the appearances of their lifestyle even though one--or both--of the parents were out of work.
I like that I can live comfortably and within my means where I am now.