What are the nicest U.S. suburbs you've ever visited?

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Anonymous wrote:The Grosse Pointes were quite nice

yes! Very.

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Someone recommend something in a warm climate. You couldn't pay me enough to go live in Connecticut or Chicago and deal with those winters.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone recommend something in a warm climate. You couldn't pay me enough to go live in Connecticut or Chicago and deal with those winters.

For the right person, you can't beat Orange County/LA County.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone recommend something in a warm climate. You couldn't pay me enough to go live in Connecticut or Chicago and deal with those winters.

Winter Park, FL
Coral Gables, FL
Westlake Village, CA
Piedmont, CA
Moraga, CA
Los Altos, CA
Palos Verdes, CA
Decatur, GA
Chapel Hill, NC (is this a suburb? not sure.)

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Anonymous wrote:Someone recommend something in a warm climate. You couldn't pay me enough to go live in Connecticut or Chicago and deal with those winters.

Exactly!

La Jolla, CA
Coral Gables, FL

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago is hands down the handsomest city in America, and its wider suburban region is home to a great variety of really nice towns and villages.

The fact that Connecticuters on this board are feeling threatened by this fact is hilarious!

We’ve always been quite envious of your.... meat packing industry, and enterprise organise crime syndicates.

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have you ever been to Chicago? I am from CT and used to live in NYC, Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities there is. For people who are into the arts/theater, it is an embarrassment of riches - amazing opera, art museums, theater (I would argue better theater than NYC if you want "real" theater and not just a lot of jukebox musicals), great neighborhoods, good music scene (Wilco anyone?), stunning lakefront. And because COL is low, people aren't working all the time so they can actually enjoy everything the city has to offer. And yes, the suburbs are great too. No location is perfect (I missed having mountains within a days drive when I lived there and winters were brutal), but the city itself is pretty great.

We lived in Greenwich and New Canaan for many years and loved it and then my husband got transferred to Chicago. WTF? We have to move to Chicago? Well, we did and other than the long winters it was the best decision we ever made. The towns along the north shore like Winnetka and Lake Forest are beautiful with great public schools. While the city has its problems it is much nicer than NYC and it has all the culture and activities one needs. The lakefront is spectacular and unlike NYC where everyone leaves in the summer, people flock to Chicago in the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Carmel-by-the-sea.

+1 I adore the Pebble Beach-Carmel-Pacific Grove-Monterey area and dream of retiring there.

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Anonymous wrote:The Chicago suburbs are nice, but you're also marooned in Illinois, and a cute town center can only go so far.

So there are no airports in Chicago?

Haha I grew up in a Chicago suburb and my parents still live there and hands down it is the easiest place to visit from anywhere in the country. Every city I’ve lived in, even small college towns have a direct flight to Chicago since it is such a transit hub. Also super easy access to nature in Michigan and WI which are absolutely gorgeous in the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:The Chicago suburbs are nice, but you're also marooned in Illinois, and a cute town center can only go so far.

So there are no airports in Chicago?

Haha I grew up in a Chicago suburb and my parents still live there and hands down it is the easiest place to visit from anywhere in the country. Every city I’ve lived in, even small college towns have a direct flight to Chicago since it is such a transit hub. Also super easy access to nature in Michigan and WI which are absolutely gorgeous in the summer.

Chicago has the highest murder rate + winters suck there.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Chicago suburbs are nice, but you're also marooned in Illinois, and a cute town center can only go so far.

So there are no airports in Chicago?

Haha I grew up in a Chicago suburb and my parents still live there and hands down it is the easiest place to visit from anywhere in the country. Every city I’ve lived in, even small college towns have a direct flight to Chicago since it is such a transit hub. Also super easy access to nature in Michigan and WI which are absolutely gorgeous in the summer.

Chicago has the highest murder rate + winters suck there.

Step away from Fox News.

Chicago’s rate doesn’t crack the top 10. You know whose does, though....

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-cities/

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I love Pacific Palisades area on/around Amalfi Drive. The Doogie Howser house is on that street.

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The East Coast has the ocean, though. Chicago is landlocked as pie.

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My post got cut off. I'm PP above. I truly believe there's nowhere as nice as New England: World-class universities, culture, history, and hospitals of Boston. Beautiful ocean and mountains for recreation, with the Cape, Nantucket, the Vineyard, Maine...on and on. Great colleges with small towns for day trips. Close to NYC for easy weekend jaunts. Liberal, progressive mindset (if that appeals to you, of course.) It's the best of almost every world. The winters do stink and the people can be reserved.

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Anonymous wrote:My post got cut off. I'm PP above. I truly believe there's nowhere as nice as New England: World-class universities, culture, history, and hospitals of Boston. Beautiful ocean and mountains for recreation, with the Cape, Nantucket, the Vineyard, Maine...on and on. Great colleges with small towns for day trips. Close to NYC for easy weekend jaunts. Liberal, progressive mindset (if that appeals to you, of course.) It's the best of almost every world. The winters do stink and the people can be reserved.

Great Lakes > Atlantic Ocean. Most don't believe it unless they've been, but in good weather Lake Michigan literally looks like the Mediterranean.

But yes, New England definitely offers a greater variety of excursions than Chicagoland.

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Anonymous wrote:I love Pacific Palisades area on/around Amalfi Drive. The Doogie Howser house is on that street.

Right, but that’s a section of LA. Not a ‘burb!