Return to Alton, IL
This was originally posted on a different blog I was using before I decided to bring back CC&G. We have now been talking about moving to Alton for about 2.5 years. This post includes our affiliate link to Bookshop.org. Using our link helps support the blog! We've been tossing around the idea of moving to Illinois for a while now. Missouri is just getting worse and worse, like it's trying to win the most hateful state in the union prize or something, and just across the river we have the Metro East. Whatever you may say about downstate Illinois, it is protected by Chicago and will probably be forever, and that's fine with me. We like our house a lot, and could live here many years, but if we wanted to get some things on our wish list - big front porch, bigger yard, fewer gunshots, etc - we may as well move to the suburbs that are in a sanctuary state. I've spent a lot of time on Google Maps, picking various towns and mapping to our parents, dance studio, Costco, al...
