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What started as a rural outpost north of Atlanta is now the city’s wealthiest, densest, most talked about district. One zip code here ranks as the second wealthiest in the entire South, and the retail intersection at Lenox, Peachtree, and Piedmont pulls in about three billion dollars a year in spending. If you are weighing a move to Buckhead, here is everything you need to know about living here the neighborhoods, the homes and prices, the schools, and the parks and points of interest that define the area.

Sandy Springs stayed unincorporated for decades, even as it grew into a dense, built-out community north of the Chattahoochee. In 1950, the Georgia legislature blocked an early push by Atlanta to annex the area, and the construction of I-285 and Georgia 400 through the early 1960s accelerated development without the area ever becoming its own city. Residents kept rejecting annexation into Atlanta and pushed for self-governance instead.

This city didn’t exist thirteen years ago. In 2012, a group of residents voted to break away from unincorporated DeKalb County and form their own city instead. Today Brookhaven has one of the highest median household incomes in the metro, a $50 million NBA training facility, and a golf clubhouse dating back to 1928. Here’s everything you need to know about living here: the history, the homes and prices, the schools, and the parks that make it one of the most sought after addresses north of the city.