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Just toss Avenue Edmonton’s best neighbourhood list — that’s Janna Bradshaw and Stephanie Kovach’s best advice for a millennial who is house hunting.

The two University of Alberta human geography and planning students set out to use Edmonton’s Open Data catalogue to analyze the best neighbourhoods for the generation born between the early 1980s and 2000s, the millennials. For fun, they compared it to the annual ranking in the local monthly lifestyle magazine.

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The lists were completely different. Looking at access to things like bike lanes, good transit, recreation, schools and restaurants — Avenue favourites like Glenora, Strathcona and Westmount didn’t even rank.

Instead, the top neighbourhoods were Central McDougall north of downtown, Carter Crest near the Terwillegar Recreation Centre and Woodcroft north of Coronation Park.

“We were quite surprised,” said Bradshaw, who is presenting their work with the rest of professor Manish Shirgaokar’s class at City Hall Tuesday. Each student or team tackled a different local question, trying to learn something new about Edmonton through spatial analysis.