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

[Scott Castaline]

danlambert at bellsouth.net wrote:
>  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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I agree with Dan, I've lived in Gwinnett almost 10 years. Like anywhere 
else there are bad sections and good sections. I live just on the county 
side of Lawrenceville north of the infamous 316. If you're into good 
eats we have our share of places and more on the way. When I first move 
here we had only one Japanese Steak House/Sushi Bars in the area, now we 
have 3. Two Mexican resturants, had lost one but recently gained back 2 
more with the 2 new ones in the same shopping center. A fair amount of 
Asian cuisine (Thai, Korean, and whatever), Hooter's finally and we just 
got a Starbuck's and soon a Carabou's. We even have 2 steak houses. As 
far as living places, the rental communities are generally very good, as 
far as owning single family housing, there are some decent looking 
communities, but I personally would probably want to buy in around the 
Grayson, Snellville area. Also not far from there is supposed to be the 
counties best High School. I'm not sure about the feeder schools (Elem., 
Middle). Unfortunately the name slips my memory but it's the other HS of 
the Snellville area other than Shiloh.

As far as traffic goes, it's can be bad. Not as bad as what I've 
experienced in LA but close. My really bad experience in LA was when I 
wnet to visit a cousin of mine who lived off of the Ventura Freeway. I 
was in Torrence on business, and at the suggestion of my office staff, 
left at 3:30, did not get to my cousin until 8:30. I left her place 
around 11:30 and got back to my hotel back in Torrence by 12:10. Talk 
about parking lots, the 405 just creeped from LAX to the 101 and did not 
open up again until I got to the exit I got off at. Just remember one 
thing, about ATL traffic, on holiday weekends rush hour starts around 
2PM and can last in some areas until 9PM or later.

Hope the drive is smooth. Watch out for I20 between Birmingham and the 
GA line if you come in that way. Some of the truckers like to play games 
with cars on the hills, I had gotten stuck by about 3 of them back in 99.