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

[danlambert at bellsouth.net]

 Although many people don't like living in Gwinnett County, there are some pretty good schools, and nice neighborhoods. The area from Lilburn up through Lawrenceville, and over to Peachtree Corners has a fairly good selection of neighborhoods with decent schools and a reasonable lifestyle. 

There should be some information on the schools at http://www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/ that you can sift through. My children went to Gwinnett County Schools, and with reasonable parental guidance, we didn't have any druggies or any other social problems. As with all schools, you need to be aware of the potential for gangs and other "organizations", but parental involvement is the key to those issues.

You will want to look carefully at the neighborhoods in this area, but we have lived in Gwinnett for 20 years, and have had no real problem. We live in an ethnically mixed world, with a broad variety of nationalities, but we have had absolutely zero problem with anyone in any neighborhood we've lived in. Again, we did some research before we bought our homes.

We will probably be moving out further in a few years, but that's because we don't have any children at home now and neither of us needs to live in close to town for work. We don't have to have the big house, either. We won't move a log way though, as we have too many friends and there are too many good restaurants in the area.

Dan

> 
> From: Joe Bayes <jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com>
> Date: 2007/06/10 Sun AM 01:19:57 EDT
> To: ale at ale.org
> 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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