Cost of Living

In case you are moving up here from the South, it is very expensive!!!

As a rule of thumb, the property taxes in Mill Creek are 3-4X worse then what they are in many southern states. Here is my example:

TN – $100/month for every $100,000 value of your house.

Mill Creek – $310/month for every $100,000 value of your house.

In other words:

For a $300,000 house you will pay -

$300/month in Property Taxes in TN

$930/month in Property Taxes in Mill Creek

Just keep this in mind when you are looking for a house in Mill Creek Subdivision, Geneva, IL. In fact this is fairly true with most of Kane and Dupage counties in Chicagoland.

Additional Resources

So I’ve found that there are some marketing related sites that describe and show some more of the Mill Creek Subdivision, please visit them for more information.

Sho-deen Photo Gallery of Mill Creek

Sho-deen Blog of Mill Creek Community

Sho-deen Twitter Page

(Sho-deen builds many homes within the Mill Creek Community)

Kombrink Reality – Mill Creek Demographics and Maps for Batavia side

Kombrink Reality – Mill Creek Demographics and Maps for Geneva side

Golf Courses within Mill Creek

Well I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the Mill Creek Golf Course located within our subdivision is excellent. I have only been able to play the Mill Creek Course therefore will need to hold out on Tanna Farms review for later.

The clubhouse needs to some work, but that is only to reflect the incredible golf course it is providing services too.

I really enjoyed playing this course, and this statement originates from someone that came from south. It has beautiful landscaping, pretty well designed holes, and excellent hills to adjust skill level. I recommend that you play this course at least once.

More Information can be retrieved here:

Mill Creek Golf Course – Geneva, IL

Tanna Farms Golf Club – Geneva, IL

The Mill Creek site needs some work, esp in comparison to the Tanna Farms.

Map of Subdivision

I was able to find a map of the subdivision here:

Mill Creek Subdivision – Geneva, IL

Grocery Stores

We have a few options for Grocery Stores. I will try to detail out the options we have found in moving into Mill Creek.

1. North end of Mill Creek Subdivision (Keslinger Rd.) -

Meijer – 855 Randall Road, St Charles, IL  http://bit.ly/c9cpHe

Fresh Market – 718 Commons Drive, Geneva, IL‎  http://bit.ly/bc3UBX

2. Middle of Mill Creek Subdivision  (Fabyan Parkway) -

Trader Joe’s – 1942 W Fabyan Pkwy, Batavia, IL‎   http://bit.ly/biiVHa

Dominick’s – 2000 South Randall Road, Geneva, IL‎   http://bit.ly/cFceaz

3. South end of Mill Creek Subdivision (Main St. Batavia) -

Jewel-Osco – 119 South Randall Road, Batavia, IL   http://bit.ly/cFnfWF

Woodman’s – Hansen Blvd  North Aurora, IL   http://bit.ly/clm9uo

High Speed Internet Service Providers

So the first entry is to be about my frustration with the low selection of Internet Service Providers. There are two options: Mediacom and AT&T

I have found that most (80% or greater) of everyone in the Mill Creek Subdivision has AT&T DSL for their provider. Two reasons for this:

1. Mediacom does not provide good cable TV service. Many have selected to use DirecTV Satellite Service instead. Need proof? Ride around in the neighborhood and count the number of Satellite dishes.

2. Mediacom does not provide good service at all. (based upon my experience and various neighbor’s experience as well.) We have tried to use them for over 3 weeks and they could not get the lines to my house to work because they informed me they are not used to supplying service to this area.

So your “only” selection would be to use AT&T DSL, which is very slow! They max out at 6MB/s down and my previous experience is with Comcast which maxed out at 10MB/s download speed. Yes that seems close together but Comcast max speed was steady, and AT&T seems to be in burst. (Which based upon how the technology is built is very backwards.)

So my recommendation, from experience, is to get the DirecTV/AT&T DSL bundle.

Writings about moving into Mill Creek

This blog is to describe the various details that I have run into moving into the Mill Creek Subdivision in Geneva, IL.

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