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Moving to Raleigh--planning on renting for a year before buying. Found a house in Brookgreen subdivision in Cary--anyone have any information about the neighborhood?
What sort of information are you looking for? Statistical data for any neighborhood are readily available on city-data and elsewhere online, of course. I've never lived in Brookgreen, but I have done work at a few houses there over the years, and it seems to me to be pretty much what it appears: a pleasant, quiet, kind of boring neighborhood populated by the usual mix of Cary-type people, except skewing a little more towards renters (such as you, possibly, for instance), older folks, and young married couples buying their first house. The houses and lots in Brookgreen are clearly a bit smaller and less upscale than in most of the newer Cary sprawl—particularly in the older, southern section of Brookgreen, distinct from the newer "Brookgreen Forest" portion to the north—and that can be either a good thing, a bad thing, both, or neither, depending on your perspective and what you're looking for. What are your criteria or what are you looking for in a neighborhood to rent in? My anecdotal experience there, both from the people I was working for and their neighbors, was that people were very nice and friendly, and in fact perhaps a little more open and less uptight than in other Cary neighborhoods where I've been, possibly because of the very fact of it being a bit less fancy and expensive. But those were also very limited firsthand experiences with small sample sizes, so maybe not representative of the community as a whole.
A co-worker of mine recently moved out of Brookgreen and purchased a house in Macarthur. Her main complaints with Brookgreen:
1. Several people in neighborhood did not keep up their properties.
2. Not too many kids her children's ages (9 and 11).
It really is a good location to get your feet on the ground in Cary in a rental while you explore the area, or for first time buyer home.
There are quite a few rentals.
Affordable housing that provides rental cash flow attracts investor/landlords, and that is seldom a good thing for overall property values and appeal.
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