Illinois?

[Benton]

(12-17-2020, 07:02 AM)Tiger Teeth Wrote: We are looking at Metropolis, IL.  My wife has family in Paducah, KY.  So we'd be right across the river from her family.  She's living with chronic back pain and they can't find what's wrong.  So...now she goes to a pain management doctor and is hooked on opiods.

Her doctor has asked her if she's ever tried marijuana, and she has, but since it's possibly illegal where I live, a shift about 5 hours southwest, and she not only will try it, but it will help her in several ways.

So thanks to all you guys for the input.  But we're going to be all the way at the bottom of Illinois, right on the river.  Also, an update.  Talked to my real estate agent, I think this is going to happen, early in the new year!

(12-17-2020, 01:00 PM)WiregrassBenGal Wrote: 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.

Ah cool beans. Metro is where my family lives. My parents are originally from there. I live just outside Paducah.

There's not a ton of stuff in metro, but most people who live there work in Paducah or marion or carbondale.

If you end up in metro, holler. I'll buy you a beer sometime.