Haven
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I think this really varies town to town.
I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago, in a neighboring suburb of where I grew up. The burb where I grew up us veeeery different than my current suburb.
My childhood suburb (where my mother still lives) is filled with many people who are quite rude, ostentatious, and entitled. (Which is strange, because it is decidedly middle class.) Many of them seem to be concerned with proving how important they are to strangers, and it makes for an unfriendly atmosphere. Drivers are rude, people are rude in stores, and if you smile at someone walking by she will likely give you a dirty look and scoff.
My current town is only 20 minutes east of my childhood town, and it is filled with lovely, friendly, down-to-earth people. It's very strange, because this is a much more expensive place to live (we border Lake Michigan, on Chicago's North Shore,) and our current neighbors are far better off than the people I grew up with, yet they seem to have much less to prove, and they don't have that horrible sense of entitlement I saw in my childhood town.
When DH and I were looking for homes I knew hands down that I did not want to raise our future children in my childhood suburb. DH is a city boy, and he's often shocked by the way people behave in my childhood suburb, and how nice people are in our current town.
SO, I guess what I'm trying to say is that it really seems to vary from town to town, even.
I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago, in a neighboring suburb of where I grew up. The burb where I grew up us veeeery different than my current suburb.
My childhood suburb (where my mother still lives) is filled with many people who are quite rude, ostentatious, and entitled. (Which is strange, because it is decidedly middle class.) Many of them seem to be concerned with proving how important they are to strangers, and it makes for an unfriendly atmosphere. Drivers are rude, people are rude in stores, and if you smile at someone walking by she will likely give you a dirty look and scoff.
My current town is only 20 minutes east of my childhood town, and it is filled with lovely, friendly, down-to-earth people. It's very strange, because this is a much more expensive place to live (we border Lake Michigan, on Chicago's North Shore,) and our current neighbors are far better off than the people I grew up with, yet they seem to have much less to prove, and they don't have that horrible sense of entitlement I saw in my childhood town.
When DH and I were looking for homes I knew hands down that I did not want to raise our future children in my childhood suburb. DH is a city boy, and he's often shocked by the way people behave in my childhood suburb, and how nice people are in our current town.
SO, I guess what I'm trying to say is that it really seems to vary from town to town, even.