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

[Jeff Lightner]

You need to understand that "North" metro is actually 3 different areas.
You have Alpharetta and north of there for most of what is up the GA 400
corridor.  You have NorthEast going up I-85/I-985 and NorthWest going up
I75/I-575.  Some folks working up 400 live NorthEast but I recall
spending about 5 hours just trying to go east a few miles once to get
over to I-85 from GA 400.

If your main consideration is traffic you definitely want to live close
to where you will travel most often.   For schools you'll have to take
the advice of others.

The traffic here IS as bad as people say.  I've driven all around the
country and haven't found many places that are worse.  I recall several
years ago riding in a cab in NYC and wondering how people could tolerate
that traffic and years later realizing Atlanta had gotten just as bad if
not worse.  (Funny aside - Driving through NYC last year on my way to
Maine the New Yorkers mistakenly thought they could outdrive someone
with Georgia tags but I proved them wrong.)

One thing I will say for Atlanta is that is mainly bad at rush hour
whereas some places (e.g. the road from San Jose to San Francisco) was
still heavy with traffic at 9 PM  when I last visited there.

-----Original Message-----
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Michael Smith
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:30 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek movingto/near
Atlanta?

I live in Roswell and like it with the exception of the property tax of
fulton county.  I have pretty easy access to most parts of town and
theres a frys about 15 minutes away on Windward Parkway.  Since you have
kids I would recommend looking along the east cobb / fulton border.  You
can still find nice houses in that area for less than 300,000 and they
have the highest school scores.  That's just my 2 cents.  Traffic is
pretty bad everywhere so try to see if you can get your company to work
with you on hours.  I work 7 to 4 to avoid the traffic.  Anyways, good
luck on your house hunting and welcome.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Joe Bayes" <jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: 6/10/07 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek moving to/near
Atlanta?

Brian Schenken typeth:

>I'm wondering if you locals might recommend areas that a geeky family
>should (or shouldn't) consider settling down in.

I lived in Doraville and hated it, at least in part because there was
no neighborhood: just condos and a shopping center nearby, and nothing
that was safe to walk to. I liked Midtown better, but it's not exactly
in Northern Atlanta. 

>Proximity to a Fry's is a consideration - so Duluth sounds kewl.

You'll be going to work 5x a week at rush hour, and to Fry's (I
expect) much less often (and probably outside of rush hour), so I
would think that proximity to work would be much more important than
proximity to Fry's. But YMMV.

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

Depends. Where are you now? Compared to the Bay Area or LA, it'll be
(somewhat) better than you're used to. But not much. hth.

Joe
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