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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicago suburbs

Houses in my neighborhood are around $450k, fantastic schools, easy access to everything in Chicagoland.

Im a single mom of 2 kids making $130k and we are doing great- i own a nice home, kids are in awesome schools, great network of friends, neighborhood/community is awesome.

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Pp here adding my taxes are $7k[/quote]

This sounds a little like my little Chicago suburb.  Homes are selling for between 300-500K.  Taxes are between 7-13K.  But I'd describe our schools as good, not great.  [b]Good, to me, implies an average ACT of at least 28. [/b] I believe our average might be 23-24.  And our middle school is just ok.  I don't know how anyone can afford a 450K house on 130K as a single parent, so I'm assuming you had help or bought many, many years ago like we did.  My spouse and I make 200K+ and while we could theoretically afford a 450K home,we could not also afford to help pay for kids college and save for retirement on that.[/quote]
You seem to have unrealistic expectations for that...the tippy top comprehensive/open enrollment high schools (New Trier, Stevenson, Hinsdale Central, etc.) in the Chicago area are in the 25-26 range. The best selective enrollment schools in the city, that accept only a small fraction of those who apply, are a little bit above that. I don't think there is any public high school in Illinois that has an average ACT of "at least 28" (much less above that). Maybe IMSA. But really, you'd need to be looking at the $$$ private schools for 28+ average ACTs.[/quote]

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