Pine Bend Dr, Wildwood

Provided you don't mind being away from the heart of the city, this is an ideal St. Louis county neighborhood just off of highway 40 with easy access to St. Charles. The area around Wildwood and Chesterfield has really been built up in the last several years, and Chesterfield Airport Road is, according to a rampant urban legend (which perhaps someone else can confirm) the largest contiguous strip mall in the country. This might sound like a bad thing, and provided you were closer to the parking lot and unable to see the stars for the wash of neon lights, it might be; yet this neighborhood winds up being just the right distance from largely rural Wildwood and the quickly growing Chesterfield. Great neighborhood for raising kids, with wonderful public high schools and (now that 40 has reopened) easy access to downtown.