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Hot Dunwoody
By Ken Wright, President, Dunwoody Homeowners Association, Inc.

Dunwoody was recently ranked as one of the hottest towns in America by Fortune magazine. It used Dunwoody’s average household income, and the ratio of household income to housing value, as two reasons Dunwoody ranked so high. Other sources cite Dunwoody’s “central location” for its ranking as a great place to live.

Dunwoody is and will remain one of the most desirable places to live, but for other and different reasons. Unlike national magazines and reporters that are unfamiliar with this community, those of us fortunate enough to live here have a deeper insight into what makes this community tick.

• Dunwoody is home to some of the highest ranked public schools in the state. Thanks to nearly 100% parental involvement, the schools attract the best and brightest educators and administrators. This in turn creates an environment where great kids excel.
  
• Dunwoody is home to the largest business district in the Southeast with a plethora of Fortune 500 companies amongst its ranks. As important, many entrepreneurs and business leaders call Dunwoody home and fill the office space of our business district. This business district continues to thrive and excel due in large part to community business leaders who formed a special tax district called the Perimeter Central Improvement District (PCID). These self imposed extra taxes help pay for sidewalks, infrastructure improvements, decorative lighting and utility poles, and to clean, mow and maintain public areas.
  
• Dunwoody is home to leading spiritual & faith based organizations that provide direction, word and gospel to many both within and outside our community.
  
• Dunwoody is home to deeply involved civic organizations such as the Dunwoody Preservation Trust, Dunwoody Woman’s Club, Dunwoody Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, Dunwoody Nature Center and numerous garden clubs, to name just a few. These organizations provide a variety of opportunities to give back to the community.
  
• Residential Dunwoody is home to entrepreneurs who contribute time and money to maintain public areas, and to support the arts and public events in the residential part of our community.
  
• Dunwoody is home to one of the oldest, largest and most powerful homeowners’ organizations in the country; The Dunwoody Homeowner Association. The DHA has fought for the betterment of this community and its residents for over 35 years. It is an organization that orchestrates and helps finance community events such as the Fourth of July parade and Light up Dunwoody, and maintenance of public areas. It represents homeowners on almost any issue that affects the Dunwoody community.

All these are important reasons that Dunwoody is a “hot” community.

There is one more vital reason Dunwoody is such an outstanding community: its people. Excellence breeds excellence in all aspects of life, whether it is business or family, religious or charitable endeavors. Involvement breeds involvement. Giving breeds giving. Community breeds community. Thus, Dunwoody is “hot” because the majority of its population believes in the community and the direct impact they have on this community.

The community does not sit back and expect things to just happen, they make things happen. Your personal involvement in every aspect of this community is the difference between being just another community of asphalt and traffic in this metropolis we call Atlanta and the tightly knit small town community called Dunwoody.