If you can't at least ride a bike to the beach then it's not coastal. 10 miles as the crow flies is at least a 10 minute drive with no traffic plus parking, loading/unloading the car etc.

I did get a lot of traffic since they send you a link with your metrics to watch the data each day.

If you buy a property close to a hospital, for example, you have a much better chance of getting traffic from a furnished finder than if you are on the other side of town (or more than 15 minutes away from the hospital).

Even though it's a little further out, the I-59S commute into work is one of the easier travel routes in rush hour traffic (when compared to going north or south on I-65 or traveling on the dreaded HWY-280). 6. 35068/35071 - Fultondale & Gardendale - Okay, I promised the top 5, but I didn't want to leave these areas out.

I imagine it has good traffic, however, is it good to find high quality tenants?

Nothing there and the traffic is absolutely horrible.

BTW - I lived and worked in Alexandria for 10 years, enjoyed my time there but not the  traffic :))

Example - A run-down, unmaintained 1,000sf house, with no pool and located on a high traffic street, should not be worth the same as a fully remodeled 1,000sf house with twice the lot size and a pool, etc.I suppose you can look at $/sf on a more general basis for an area (assuming you have many datapoints), but then you still want to take into account the Subject size vs the typical size for the area.

@Jake Knight - FB/Adwords traffic is only as good as the funnel you have built behind it.  

Love Worcester, MA lots of colleges and lots of hospitals, and only 1 hr to Boston on the express train and 50 min to Providence and 50 to Springfield via car, even with some traffic.