<p>What’s it like? How far is it from downtown Chicago? Does it have a suburban or urban feel? --meh, maybe dumb question haha…
How’s access to shopping/food? haha (I’m a girl-- I’ll need my clothes AND my food haha)</p>
<p>excuse my ignorance please =)</p>
<p>i found it okay at first, but now it’s kinda dreary and depressing. It probably feels a little more urban than suburban, but i don’t think it could be described explicitly as either. Food? Good if you like pizza/thai. Shopping? None at all, but downtown is only a bus ride away.</p>
<p>that’s kinda depressing… lol, the brochures and such that i received from chicago kinda overplayed hyde park then? meh</p>
<p>Hyde Park is really nice, its the second safest township in Chicago, its becoming safer and gentrified its also what you make of it, there are really nice chic stores in it, not clothing stores, but the stores and restarants they do have are still very interesting. There are these two book stores i really like the other sells antiques like an early 19th century solid gold letter opener. There are many other interesting stores I havn’t checked out as well. There are a lot of notable restarants down here too. I love Istria, and medici. The brochure did not overplay Hyde Park, you just have to go out for yourself. I also love to take strolls in the neiberhood espicially on woodlawn there are a lot of cool old buildings. I personally love gothic archetecture. I really like Hyde park. If your looking for clothing you should go downtown, i go once a week or so. I really like the arrangement.</p>
<p>@qwt2: shopping downtown is my downfall.</p>
<p>sidenote: if you like fashion, join MODA-- it’s out fashion organization! it’s sweet!</p>
<p>Hyde Park is a generally nice area to be in, but there are neighborhoods bordering it that aren’t so nice. However, when I was visiting Chicago a few years ago for vacation, the neighborhoods about the University aren’t nearly as visually unappealing as the neighborhoods surrounding USC.</p>
<p>Hyde Park is an urban neighborhood, but it’s a specific kind of urban neighborhood – a kind that doesn’t have a lot of places to buy cute clothes or go clubbing. But the city of Chicago has lots of neighborhoods where you CAN do such things, on a world-class level, and it really isn’t hard to get to them from the University.</p>
<p>Hyde Park is pretty, quiet, a little sleepy. People live and have their friendships there, but they get their kicks elsewhere.</p>
<p>I would call it an urban feel. There is great food to be found on 53rd Street, which is within walking distance from the campus. You can also bus/walk farther north within the neighborhood for some shopping (Walgreens, Office Max). I don’t believe there are many clothing resources in Hyde Park, but the city is only a 20-minute bus ride away!</p>
<p>The neighborhood feels comfortable, even at night. Most of the residents are much wealthier than I am. However, that’s not to say there aren’t homeless people… there are at least two… and they seem to pick me out of any group and ask me specifically if I have money, although I’ve never given them a cent. </p>
<p>The local prices seem higher than at home, and sales tax in Chicago is high, 10%. Unless you’re loaded, these factors tend to discourage a lot of shopping.</p>
<p>^^ lasermouse: I don’t know where you are from originally, but there are homeless in almost every city who do similar things.</p>
<p>I would agree with other things that have been said, but I would also add that my parents, who attended schools in what were then rough neighborhoods, kept on commenting on how wonderful HP felt compared to where they went to school and what that area looks like now. Hyde Park isn’t Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, or Wrigleyville-- it doesn’t have that flashy buzz to it-- but I like it just the way it is.</p>
<p>Just for kick’s sake, check out condo and home prices in HP on trulia: <a href=“Trulia: Real Estate Listings, Homes For Sale, Housing Data”>Trulia: Real Estate Listings, Homes For Sale, Housing Data;