Caroline St Northeast, Edgewood

Caroline Street is in the middle of the Edgewood Shopping District. It might be fairer to say that Caroline Street IS the Edgewood Shopping District; on both sides of the street, you'll see small shops (GameStop, Five Guys, American Deli), and parking lots for large anchor stores (Lowe's, Best Buy, Target, etc.).

Since the Edgewood Shopping District was designed as a mixed-use area, you'll find condos, lofts, and townhomes on the second floor of several buildings, as well as in a dedicated residential area on the east end of Caroline. Homes here are "affordable" by upper-class standards, but still around $200k. If you can swing it, though, you can very nearly do without a car. MARTA buses serve Caroline Street and take you to the train station, and with a grocery store (Kroger), hardware store (Lowe's), general retailer (Target), pet store (Petco), office store (Office Depot), and restaurants like Ru San's sushi and Figo Pasta, you might never need a personal vehicle. There's a Caribou Coffee next to Best Buy, and if you prefer Starbucks, you can get it inside Target or across the parking lot inside Kroger.