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

[Matt Kubilus]

Welcome!

My advise to you is live close to where you will work unless you can
telecommute.  There is a lot of bad, decaying neighborhoods and plenty
of great ones.  Many different kinds of neighborhoods, I would
definitely recommend renting until you have a lay of the land.

Yes traffic is as bad as they say.  Don't believe the mapquest
estimates, the 20 minute approximated drive turns into and 1.5hr
nightmare very very easily.  On the north side of town rush hour is
from 6am to 11pm.  Find an alternative path to work that does not
involve an interstate.

and the comment about schools:  Cobb county has the highest rated
school system is Georgia.  Of course Cobb county is huge, so it
depends where you are at.  Coming from Tennessee, the schools here are
much much better here.  Really they are.

M

On 6/9/07, Brian Schenken <brian.schenken at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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