TOPIC: GLL lifestyle in the suburbs

Hey everyone, I have perplexing situation and could use some advice. Over the summer I accepted a scholarship to play hockey at a school closer to home. The main campus is in Chicago but my scholarship is to attend a small branch campus in the suburbs. I live in the Chicago area and am now back at home with my parents. This obviously means I had to transfer out of S.I.U. Carbondale where I had my own place and really good logistics. For those who don't know S.I.U.C. has a reputation of being a huge 'party school' and leading the lifestyle we talk about here is much easier than in suburbia. Now that I'm back home I've noticed a huge shortage of available single girls where I live and can use some advice from anyone here particularly from anyone who also lives in a suburb or region with an unbalanced gender ratio

Before I go any further I just want to state that since I've joined the forum back in January I've made massive improvements to several areas of my life. My style is now leagues better than it was before. I've adopted a much more edgier style that compliments my muscular frame and have much more confidence when going out. With that said whenever I go out looking for girls to approach I can't help but notice that there aren't as many present where I live as say SIU. Everyday after school and before practice I go to the mall, Starbucks, grocery stores etc and see mainly couples, the elderly and families with children. I don't see a lot of young single available girls ages 18 to 28 or so as most of them leave the suburbs to go to school or live/work in the city. Since i don't have class on Friday I'm thinking of just going to the city on Fridays but can only do that on weeks were we have home games and don't have to travel. Does anyone here also live in a less than ideal location? If so how do you work around living in an environment with poor logistics and unfavorable demographics?

Well I've grown up in the Chicagoland area... I can give you some places to go out in the burbs.

Naperville, Rosemont has been my go to spot lately, Tinley Park, Bourbon Street in Merionette Park gets rowdy... theres a lot of different places to go. I'm not sure how old you are... but theres plenty of night life around.

What is your big problem with logistics though? Do you live in the boonies way far away from everything? Parents not cool with you bringing girls back? Your post was detailed in all the wrong ways lol

Hey Majik, cool to see another local here! I actually live in the western suburbs right next to Naperville. I go to downtown Naperville all the time especially to the river walk and area around North Central College. People seem a bit stuck up but I don't make excuses and try anyway lol. My problem with logistics is that there is almost nothing within walking distance of my place. Everything involves driving. I'll have to try Rosemont and the other places you listed. Hell one of our goalies lives in Tinley Park so I'll go there too. For what it's worth I mainly approach during the day as I take 16 credit hours and have practices games and travel and don't have much time to go out at night. Do you think that might be the problem?