Ridgewood Estates No 4

The driveways here are short and the lots modest—0.37 acres means you're living close enough to your neighbors to hear their lawn mowers, which is either a feature or a bug depending on your tolerance for suburban density. A grocery store sits a seven-minute walk away, and restaurants are four minutes on foot, so you're not entirely dependent on the car for basic errands, though you'll want one for most of life's other requirements. Downtown Grand Rapids is a straightforward seventeen minutes away, and the Medical Mile is even closer at under nineteen minutes, which matters more as the years accumulate. The real appeal, though, is probably the land itself—eight parks within a mile means there's green space nearby without the pretense of it being your private domain.