Originally Posted by NuGuy

Just spent a weekend looking at places in Virginia Highlands and Little Five Points.

It's got the freaky deaky urban hipster thing going on, where people made their mad coin selling their "sustainable compost" operation to the local waste management place to use as a tax writeoff, or the back room app developer who just sold out for a jillion dollars to Google. Others inherited their houses from their Great Aunt.

The place is nice and has a lot of young urbanite hipsters and other young professionals wandering around. Lots of lofts built in abandoned factories and auto garages. If I bought there, I'd be extra sure to get a place with off street parking.

Like similar places around the country, everything is way, WAY overpriced for what you get, on a cost versus value scale. Last time I saw prices like this for what you got was in the lake area of uptown Minneapolis, and the Summit Hill area of St. Paul.

VERY convienent to the airport, though. Lots of fun stuff to do. If you've got the jack burning a hole in your pocket, or making you a vast %0.25 on CDs, it might be a decent option.

OTOH, I looked up in Gwinette. A zillion miles from everything (except Waffle House). Between the soccer moms and the traffic (which will make you faint), it's an hour to anywhere, no matter how near or far. Unless you're married with some kids, there's not much for single folk other than a big fuel bill.

South Atlanta is very meh. A lot fewer trees and pretty darn flat. You could probably skate as far south as Macon, and do better with home prices and you might get some local character with only a marginally longer drive.

I also traveled down the I-85 Corridor as far south as Auburn, and I didn't see anything that blew my skirt up. Auburn itself is ridiculously overpriced, as would be expected in a college town. You either get way overpriced housing, or college/student housing slums.

If anyone lives in any of these places and likes it, my apologies. Just my opinion.

Nu