O.J. Mcwethy Plat

Early morning light hits the modest brick homes of O.J. McWethy Plat best—when the neighborhood is still half-asleep and you can actually see the bones of what was built here between 1910 and 1960. This four-acre subdivision sits in the heart of Fulton Heights, a pocket of Grand Rapids where the lot sizes are small (about 0.15 acres each), the walkability to restaurants sits at a solid 7.6, and you're never more than a three-minute walk from somewhere to eat. A grocery is six minutes on foot. Downtown is seven minutes by car; the airport twenty. Homes run around $412K median. The neighborhood association here runs weekly bike rides and maintains the Hillcrest Community Garden—over 100 plots squeezed into the surrounding blocks—and there's a dog park seven minutes away if you've got a mutt to exercise. It's a real place where people actually live, not a marketing concept.