[ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek moving to/near Atlanta?

[Brian Schenken]

Hi all,

Moving my family from California to somewhere near north Atlanta
(where my new job is)...  We've never been to Atlanta - we are
shipping our stuff (in a pod) and starting the drive on Monday - Woot!

I'm wondering if you locals might recommend areas that a geeky family
should (or shouldn't) consider settling down in.  Proximity to a Fry's
is a consideration - so Duluth sounds kewl.  My wife and I are gamers
(kids aren't old enough yet), so an area with an active LAN community
would be awesome....  Of course good schools and activities for the
kids are important.

I keep hearing about Atlanta traffic - is it really that bad?

On a side note:
We can't afford to take everything with us on this big move, so I sold
some of my gear.  I decided to sell my garage pc. (the one I run
streamtuner on while I scratch my head under the hood of my car).  I
figured I might as well give it to a new owner with a fresh install of
the latest and greatest Ubuntu.  On an old 700mhz Slot A Athlon rig-
(prolly an early t-bird) with 512 ram, a 20 gig hard drive, and a
relatively new cdrw driive - the install only took about 15 minutes.

Of course everyhting worked like a dream, booted it up once to turn on
autologin.  Sold it for ten bucks.  The girl that bought it sounded
really savvy.  With any luck I planted a seed!

Regards,
B