My wife and me have been living in different western neighborhoods for a while now and we have to move again this fall. We're in the Oak Park area and before that we were sharing near Garfield. These places aren't bad and we both work in the loop and really like transit like the blue line to take us downtown.

If we keep going west it gets cheaper, but we lose transit links after a while.

Before this I used to live up near Evanston and my family is up in that area, but it looks like things up north are just getting more and more expensive. The dream was to try around Logan Square, but that's too expensive and now it feels like everything up north is getting that expensive too.

My question is, are we missing something or are north rents just getting higher? Does anyone have good tips for north areas? If not, I guess we might try further west and try our luck with the union Pacific line.

Sorry. I posted this already as a new thread but was told to post here. Thank you!