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Chicago Neighborhoods best for single women over 50?? |
Travel Info One of my lifelong friends is getting ready to sell her house in the Chicago suburbs and look for new digs in the city. She's single, working and is looking for a fun, safe neighborhood where she can purchase a condo or apartment and make some new friends her age too. Any Chicago folks have suggestions where she might start looking? Thanks! Travel Tips Parts of Lincoln Park might be good for her. Wicker Park/Bucktown is full of 20s and 30somethings and she might feel a little out of the loop (I doubt if she's going to want to check out the punk band at the bar down the street or hit the house music club). Lincoln Park does have a lot of young people, but there's enough of a mix that she can find something to do and there are a few people her age. She might also want to check out the Old Town/north ave. area. Actually, that might be even better. The population in that neighborhood is right in her same age range. There are small bistros, midsize restaurants, coffeeshops, a bakery cafe, etc. The Second City comedy club is also there. It's an upscale area and the prices might be pretty high. But if she can swing it, she can choose from a highrise in a condo or an apartment in a two flat. There is a big mix of housing styles. If I had to pick between the two, I'd say she'd like Old Town better. It's pretty safe, though like any area of the city it can have a problem or two. Others I just answered a Chicago question, but it's my kind of town so here I go again. I love Wicker Park and Bucktown. Both are safer now than when I was spending more time there about 10 years ago, but the trade-off was the rent is a little more jing to rent or buy. The shopping is great, and fairly reasonably priced eateries are so ethnically diversified. Chicago people are about as friendly as any city-folk I have known anywhere. I love that city, and never felt threatened at all in the daytime, but I hear these two areas are really cleaned up from the old days. One the I noticed is that alot of the young men will be very respectful to woman of a certain age, if that does not offend you. Evanston, near the lake. I would stay in east Lakeview or Lincoln Park. lakeview is a bit less expensive. It's true that there will be a number of younger people there, however, I think these areas maintain a well balance between the old and new. there are a number of shops, book stores, places to eat and meet. Close to the park, that has the flower house and zoo, not to mention the beach. A number of people in their late 40's and 50's who live there and have been there for years, it's relatively safe where you can normally walk the streets. just have a major problem with parking. that is a big problem inthe better areas. |
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