Moving to Atlanta

[heathen]

atlanta is not as bad as some people make it out to be..

[Zuuswa]

Thanks for all the info, it will surely help. Cheryl (my girlfriend) just got a call today from the admissions counselor and she was accepted, so hopefully we will be visiting Atlanta some time in the summer, hopefully around june. I also just landed a web design job here in Michigan, hopefully I will be able to find a web design job in Atlanta. That would be terrific. Maybe I will see you all in the future!

[Zuuswa]

oops, double post . . . I'm 'borrowing' my neighbor's wireless and the service is shotty at best

[barraug]

Hi-

My husband and I and our two kids are moving to the northern Atlanta area this summer. I work from home and my husband got a job in a south Cobb County school. We used to live in Seattle, overseas, and lately, Miami.

We are looking for a progressive, kind, green, organic, diverse, peace loving, and artistic area in which to live. My kids play guitar, drums, and keyboard so we would want a good music program in the school or at least a music school nearby. My husband does not want to drive more than half an hour to his work place.

In my preliminary research, I found only one middle school in northern Atlanta that has a guitar program offered in school- Durham in Kennesaw. This seems awfully far away from MARTA and we wanted to enjoy Atlanta as opposed to driving an hour to get to public transportation. We also have spent several summers in the Marietta area with a relative so we were wondering about Sandy Springs, Marietta, and Roswell. I read about a really neat music store in Roswell.

Would anyone be able to suggest a great place to live for us?

New to the forum but I liked the thoughtful and friendly posts for the last person.

[JReagan1990]

Welcome to Atlanta!

I have never been to Sandy Springs or Roswell, but Marietta seems to be a nice place. I have some family up that way, and it is always nice to go up there. Crime is relatively low, and there are several schools in the area. I am not sure about music, though.

[heathen]

My husband does not want to drive more than half an hour to his work place.

Good luck with that... I lived 4 miles from my last place of employment. some days it was 10minutes in.. somedays it was 45...

[Zuuswa]

Hey everyone, I would first like to thank you all for your input. I will be down in Atlanta visiting next week (June 2 through the 7th), so along with apartment shopping, what other attractions would you all suggest? For instance, nice coffee shops, record shops (not the virgin megastore kind), museums, parks, etc. I would definately like to know of a good coffee shop with wireless, as I would like to get some work done whilst on vacation. Maybe I will have a chance to meet some of you, fellow ubuntu-ers. Thanks in advance!

[k1001001]

For that kind of environment, you might want to check out Athens, GA. It's about an hour away, but I've heard it's an awesome town for artsy-type stuff.

[saphil]

You pretty much bring all your demons with you wherever you go.
Atlanta is generally a friendly sort of place filled with friendly people as long as you can bring yourself to be a friendly sort of person who is interested in other people.

I have lived here for 6 years, and just love it. The only issue with Marta is that its routes do not run very late - after midnight. Sort of like BART in San Francisco, where I once spent the night on a stone bench because I missed the last train to Berkeley, and didn't feel like a swim past Alcatraz.

--Make friends with your neighbors and almost any place is safe and fun.

We are looking for a new place now, and craigslist is probably the most fun place to hunt rentals. We have found inexpensive places all over the place ($Inexpensive 2 or 3 bedroom=$1000 in the ATL) We even found $600 - $750 in Buckhead, which is considered a pretty pricey place to live..

[Seaxneat]

We're also planning a move to Atlanta this year and we've made a few trips to look around. You can find almost any lifestyle you like in Atlanta. Zuuswa, sounds to me like you're looking for a place like Castlebury Hill or Cabbagetown, both of which have a night life, relatively low rents and an artsy flavor. barraug, you should definitely be looking at Marietta or Woodstock. Roswell is getting pricy but given the market, you can stil find good deals on housing.