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My issue with these "top" and "best of" lists is the interpretation of the data. For example, someone has determined "the average number of new residents that each ZIP code is receiving per month", which is fine, but then the article asserts these zip codes "seem to be the most appealing among people who are moving into the Triangle".
One of those is fact, and the other is opinion. A higher number of residents to those zip codes could mean many things, for example more multi-family housing in those zip codes, more new homes being built (while its possible the homes in the "truly desirable" areas are not being sold because their existing residents love them), etc.
It's true what they say about liars and statistics.
I'm not saying the zip codes mentioned aren't desirable, I'm just saying these journalists never do a good job providing enough facts to support the opinions they assert.
Interesting information on zips, I'd bet 27703 cracks the list in the next couple of years. Between the success at Carolina Arbors and the number of relatively large properties now for sale along Leesville Rd. between US70 and Dominion Park - this corridor in NW Raleigh/SE Durham seems ready for growth.
I guess it would be too hard to include a map on their article.
Wasn't sure if this was a reply to my comment or just a general one. If the former, I assume you mean a map that visually shows overall "transience" (i.e. a high number of move-ins could also indicate a high number of move-outs... people coming to the areas in those zips but not staying).
Keep in mind this data is coming from bulk junk mailers that only care about recording new names associated with addresses, and little more. I doubt they would be capable of producing a map that would be useful in any sense of judging real estate value.
A good friend of mine bought a place in one of the more popular zip codes in that list last year. The only reason he did is there were not enough for sale in the area he really wanted to live (people were happy and staying put in that zip code, not selling their homes), and he was unable to find something he liked in his price range (affordability and availability drove him to buy there, not desirability).
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A few years ago, I joked to a colleague that I lived in the fancy zip code - 27519. Heh, now I have proof
As an earlier poster implied, the list has nothing to do with being fancy.
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