Advice on Relocating to Marietta, Vinnings, Smyrna, Mableton Area? (Atlanta: for rent, how much)

[Citykid3785]

Originally Posted by aries4118

Um, go around the area.

The use of the Vinings name stretching west has been going on since the 90s—rightly or wrongly. It is notorious and not a new phenomenon. Vinings Estates is just one example of dozens.

I’m amazed at audacity of these pathetic, sophomoric posts from some of you. Get yourself together and get knowledgeable if you’re going to go around saying $h!t.

Huh? Who was “saying sh!t” in this thread?

[Atlanta-Native]

Originally Posted by aries4118

Um, go around the area.

The use of the Vinings name stretching west has been going on since the 90s—rightly or wrongly. It is notorious and not a new phenomenon. Vinings Estates is just one example of dozens.

I’m amazed at audacity of these pathetic, sophomoric posts from some of you. Get yourself together and get knowledgeable if you’re going to go around saying $h!t.

I was around that area in the 90's and nobody, nobody referred to the areas in question as Vinings. Vinings essentially stopped at Log Cabin road and went north. Look at that Google map you posted, there are neighborhoods south of Veterans Memorial HWY using the "Vinings" name. That is comical. If two developers had thrown up some neighborhoods in the 90's next to Perry Homes, then named them Buckhead Heights and Buckhead Manor, would you also consider them to be part of "Buckhead"?

Vinings Estates - Smyrna, Ga 30126. Yeah, that's Smyrna, not Vinings. Also, Vinings Vintage - Mableton, Ga. 30126. Slapping a name on a neighborhood doesn't make it something it's not.

Sounds like you are the one who needs to "get yourself together and get knowledgeable".

[Atlanta-Native]

Originally Posted by lorilove

Vinings Estates was built by John Weiland which at the time his homes were considered upscale - his reputation alone, he did not need to piggyback off the area.

Weiland was a big builder then and he absolutely used the Vinings name to draw people to the neighborhood. If you drop a brand new neighborhood in a less desirable area, it's good business practice to do everything in your power to market a subdivision as he did. There's nothing wrong with that practice, but using the name of a more exclusive area to try to get people to buy there, still doesn't it make it part of Vinings.

If I were to ask any of my residential real estate friends to show me some homes in Vinings, they are not going to show me something west of 285.

[evannole]

Originally Posted by Atlanta-Native

I was around that area in the 90's and nobody, nobody referred to the areas in question as Vinings. Vinings essentially stopped at Log Cabin road and went north. Look at that Google map you posted, there are neighborhoods south of Veterans Memorial HWY using the "Vinings" name. That is comical. If two developers had thrown up some neighborhoods in the 90's next to Perry Homes, then named them Buckhead Heights and Buckhead Manor, would you also consider them to be part of "Buckhead"?

Vinings Estates - Smyrna, Ga 30126. Yeah, that's Smyrna, not Vinings. Also, Vinings Vintage - Mableton, Ga. 30126. Slapping a name on a neighborhood doesn't make it something it's not.

Sounds like you are the one who needs to "get yourself together and get knowledgeable".

My old house, built in 1985, was just a couple hundred yards outside 285, just south of Paces Ferry. It was certainly closer to what is technically called Vinings than it was to the Smyrna city line, and the previous name for this little area, Gilmore, had long fallen into disuse. The neighborhood had "Vinings" in the name from its establishment in 1985.

When I bought it in 1999, it was certainly common to call this general area Vinings, particularly since it was outside of Smyrna city limits and the central part of Smyrna had yet to be rejuvenated. Indeed, if you told someone you lived in Smyrna, they would often give you a funny look, as if to say, "Why would you live there?"

[Atlanta-Native]

Originally Posted by evannole

My old house, built in 1985, was just a couple hundred yards outside 285, just south of Paces Ferry. It was certainly closer to what is technically called Vinings than it was to the Smyrna city line, and the previous name for this little area, Gilmore, had long fallen into disuse. The neighborhood had "Vinings" in the name from its establishment in 1985.

When I bought it in 1999, it was certainly common to call this general area Vinings, particularly since it was outside of Smyrna city limits and the central part of Smyrna had yet to be rejuvenated. Indeed, if you told someone you lived in Smyrna, they would often give you a funny look, as if to say, "Why would you live there?"

I think you hit the nail on the head with that. Attaching Vinings to a neighborhood, even though it was actually outside of Vinings, sounds a little better. It's a smart marketing move for a developer.

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by evannole

My old house, built in 1985, was just a couple hundred yards outside 285, just south of Paces Ferry. It was certainly closer to what is technically called Vinings than it was to the Smyrna city line, and the previous name for this little area, Gilmore, had long fallen into disuse. The neighborhood had "Vinings" in the name from its establishment in 1985.

When I bought it in 1999, it was certainly common to call this general area Vinings, particularly since it was outside of Smyrna city limits and the central part of Smyrna had yet to be rejuvenated. Indeed, if you told someone you lived in Smyrna, they would often give you a funny look, as if to say, "Why would you live there?"

The Home Depot Corporate Headquarters campus is a prime example of a place that is physically located west of I-285 in the Smyrna 30080 zip code, but uses the Atlanta 30339 zip code as its mailing address.

Because it uses the Atlanta 30339 zip code (that covers the area east of I-285) as its mailing address, The Home Depot Corporate Headquarters campus is very often (commonly) identified as being located in Vinings even though the campus is physically located in the Smyrna 30080 zip code.

[lorilove]

During this years World Series for one brief moment the announcer said something about Truist Park located here in Cumberland Georgia!

What - my ears perked up. No one locally mistakes that area as a City or Town! I would have given him Atlanta, Vinings or Smyrna - occasionally I hear Marietta. But Cumberland NO!

[lorilove]

FYI

Atlanta, Sandy Springs and Vinings are acceptable City names for zip code 30339 - per the USPS

https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-look...?citybyzipcode

Hence the confusion

[lorilove]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

...even though the campus is physically located in the Smyrna 30080 zip code.

https://www.intownelite.com/atlanta-...he%20perimeter.

The maps that I have seen show Home Depot Corporate Support Center in zip code 30339 - I think the above link summarizes the issue well

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by lorilove

https://www.intownelite.com/atlanta-...he%20perimeter.

The maps that I have seen show Home Depot Corporate Support Center in zip code 30339 - I think the above link summarizes the issue well

Yep.

Some maps do indeed show the western boundary of the 30339 zip code as including at least the eastern part of The Home Depot Corporate Headquarters campus while others (including Google Maps) do not show the western boundary of the 30339 zip code going west of the I-285 right-of-way in that immediate area.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/At....4645184?hl=en

https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/30339/


Though, to add even more to the confusion that you noted, while at least the eastern part of The Home Depot Corporate Headquarters campus has an Atlanta 30339 mailing address, some other parts of that campus (like The Home Depot Support Center) appear to have a Smyrna 30080 mailing address:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ho....4813163?hl=en

Yet on other pages, the Support Center part of The Home Depot Corporate Headquarters campus appears to have an Atlanta 30339 mailing address along with the campus as a whole?

https://foursquare.com/v/the-home-de...8e96a0381c2679

In any case, despite seemingly being located on the Smyrna 30080 (west) side of I-285 that appears to be opposite the side of the highway with the Atlanta 30339 zip code, it is understandable why The Home Depot might would want an Atlanta mailing address for its corporate headquarters campus, likely because Atlanta is the well-known (famous), big-name major city of national and international renown.