12-17-2020, 01:00 PM
Hey Tiger Teeth, I currently live in Carbondale, which is about 50 miles above Metropolis. My move came August, 2019 when I had to find a place cheap to live for two years or more. Why Carbondale? I had gone to school at SIU and knew the area, knew I could find a cheap, relatively safe apartment here. And I did. It's tiny, but it suits me for now.
The town still looks basically the same, but the university is almost half the size of when I went here. It is even more beautiful than when I went here and they take spectacular care of it. I enjoy walking through campus and on Lake of the Campus on their paved walking paths there. The demographics of the university and town are a little bit different, too. My only complaint is that the upstairs neighbors, college kids get a little loud sometimes.
When my lease is up, I may move to Marion, which is 14 miles east, has better shopping, and is a nice country community mostly. Just a closing note; taxes in Illinois are higher, especially property taxes and registering your car. But the lower cost of living overall kind of offsets it in this part of Illinois.
The town still looks basically the same, but the university is almost half the size of when I went here. It is even more beautiful than when I went here and they take spectacular care of it. I enjoy walking through campus and on Lake of the Campus on their paved walking paths there. The demographics of the university and town are a little bit different, too. My only complaint is that the upstairs neighbors, college kids get a little loud sometimes.
When my lease is up, I may move to Marion, which is 14 miles east, has better shopping, and is a nice country community mostly. Just a closing note; taxes in Illinois are higher, especially property taxes and registering your car. But the lower cost of living overall kind of offsets it in this part of Illinois.
