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<li>well...i dont live there, but i permanently go to school there. my rich aunt lives in the NICER area of that city though..its wack.</li>
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You have the eco nuts to thank for high property prices.
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<p>Not necessarily. There's also the fact that demand has far outstripped sustainable development. </p>
<p>Oh, but on a sidenote, I'm just THRILLED to be vindicated by this. I remember having some hoighty-toity New Yorker telling me that CA prices were NOTHING compared to almighty NY. </p>
<p>I WIN.</p>
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if there's only a couple thousand people residing in a handful of households, then one house that sells at an incredibly high price can skew the average price of a house in the town.
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Remember that this survey analyzes zip codes (in some cases, neighborhoods) within a city, not the city as a whole. San Francisco and Los Angeles can have the poorest as well as richest zip codes inside its boundaries.</p>
<p>It's funny, because where I live, the average income is on par, sometimes surpassing, some of these places. Yet, we're not on the list. Thank God for sprawling development keeping housing costs down :-).</p>
<p>Yeah, same with here. Cobb is pretty rich. I'm shocked Marietta isnt on there anywhere.</p>
<p>Yeah, SPRAWLING ATL DEVELOPMENT :-D</p>
<p>The Atlanta area added the most single family homes of any metro (as well as the most people). So, the # of homes on the market is slightly greater than homes being bought. This combo=cheaper homes! YAY! MORE DISPOSABLE INCOME, *****ES!</p>
<p>Uhh.. are you sure?</p>
<p>Atlanta isn't anywhere on that list.</p>
<p>According to city-data.com, Atlanta only increased by 0.6%, that's nothing compared to Phoenix's </p>
<p>Atlanta: Population (year 2000): 416,474. Estimated population in July 2004: 419,122 (+0.6% change)
Males: 206,725 (49.6%), Females: 209,749 (50.4%)</p>
<p>Phoenix: Population (year 2000): 1,321,045. Estimated population in July 2004: 1,418,041 (+7.3% change)
Males: 671,760 (50.9%), Females: 649,285 (49.1%)</p>
<p>309...woot woot!</p>
<p>A 5-way tie...nice.</p>
<p>Jonathan, when people refer to "city growth", they tend to mean "metropolitan area". Sorry for the confusion. Here is a link:
<a href="http://www.proximityone.com/metros.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.proximityone.com/metros.htm</a></p>
<p>We added 669,736 people to the MSA (15.77% growth) between 2000 and 2005, more than the others.</p>
<p>Also, here are the building permits by each metro:
<a href="http://www.census.gov/const/www/05msawebchart.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.census.gov/const/www/05msawebchart.pdf</a></p>
<p>Atlanta MSA topped the list with 72,861 housing units.</p>
<p>Like I said, we have highly sprawled-out development. As you said, the city PROPER doesn't have much growth, but when you look at the suburbs/suburban cores, growth is phenominal. The core city is only about 8% of the ENTIRE MSA (much lower for the CMSA).</p>
<p>Oh okay. Sorry.</p>
<p>It's also somewhat arbitrary. The town that had the #1 spot last year is now #17 (the town I went to HS, and most of my friends live in). I live in #55, go to school where it's not on the list, dad lives in 456, work in 21 and 173, and plan on living in 26 or 21, or 102 (which is only so low because the zip code includes part of a lower income area).</p>
<p>Also to all of those people who claim to live in #12, remember that that's just ONE zip code within NYC. There are something like 10 zipcodes for manhattan alone, and I would bet you almost anything that your school is not located in #12 zipcode, for the simple reason that the property is too valuble for a school.</p>
<p>Either way I'm still in NYC...working...booo, not cool.</p>
<p>What borough do you live in?</p>
<p>I live in NJ, I just have an internship in the city.</p>
<p>Oh...</p>
<p>Where do you live in NJ? (Just wondering...)</p>
<p>See the first post in this thread.</p>
<p>The Bronx (#456) is on the list?? That's surprising.</p>
<h1>324 - 95129</h1>
<p>That's BS. We should be higher up.</p>
<p>According to city-data.com, Short Hills doesn't exist. lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, SJ should be MUCH higher.</p>