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A Roswell address is safe in most cases while a Marietta address can mean many different things. Those who know Cobb County would recommend a Marietta address by the High School area and feeder schools. Most of the East Cobb areas already mentioned would be similar to most of Roswell as far as housing types and schools.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned. While it is appropriate on one level to compare one Atlanta area city (or mailing address as the case may be) with another, one needs to also consider what county one will be residing in as well. When factoring this, Cobb wins hand down IMHO. Cobb County is a much better run county overall than Fulton County. The Roswell area is once again at odds with the larger Fulton County and there are those in the northern parts of Fulton looking to secede and reestablish Milton County (a current thread in the Atlanta forum is dedicated to this). From my understanding Roswell taxes will be more and county services sketchier. Roswell city is excellent, but has had to be to make up for an inefficient Fulton County.
I too realize this is an old thread, but I am sure still apropos to many who would venture to the site.
My family is new to Atlanta and currently living in Powder Springs. I work in Vinings and my commute is an easy 30 mins on the EW Connector. However our kids will be starting school soon so we're considering a move to Kennesaw or Roswell. I know the commute from Kennesaw wouldn't be fun. How about from Roswell to Vinings?
As one Atlanta Magazine article put it "Roswell is beautiful, historic, safe, clean with great schools....the only thing it lacks is diversity".....LOL....happy hunting.
Missed this when it was posted. You know, I hear that sort of thing all the time, but honestly the reality of day-to-day life in Roswell is quite diverse. Buford Highway it's not, I'll grant, and I hate being one of those "some of my best friends are black" sorts, but I'd invite the people who say such things to stop by and take a look in the classrooms or at the class pictures at River Eves, Hillside, or Esther Jackson Elementary schools, Holcomb Bridge Middle School, or Centennial, or visit the playground or sprayground or the dance/gymnastics classes at East Roswell Park -- there are as many black, brown, tan, and other color faces as there are pink ones. My kids' closest friends include kids from Mexico, Africa, and India; their dance classes and sports teams include Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Indian, Chinese, Korean and Hispanic kids -- and not just one or two tokens here and there, but making up substantial parts of the group. My next door neighbors are South African, and there are Indian, Chinese, Cuban, German, and additional South African families in our small neighborhood (~60 homes), as well as several African-American families. Religious diversity is present as well -- we're Jewish, as are several of our neighbors, and Catholic and other denominations make up a substantial minority among the Protestant majority. My experience is primarily with the newer parts of Roswell east of GA 400, and perhaps the circumstances are different across 400, but what I know about the demographics of schools like Mimosa Elementary suggests otherwise.
What we don't have a lot of is the type of people who tend to write/edit Atlanta magazine articles -- youth-oriented, single or at least childless, urban-inclined, for whom "diversity" means looking something like what Manhattan or Brooklyn, San Francisco, L.A., or other urban centers are, including bars, nightclubs, trendy foodie-haven restaurants, cutting-edge art galleries, off-Broadway-type theatres, etc. And that shouldn't be surprising -- Roswell started off as a farming and textile-producing town that eventually became a suburb of a major city. Its residents tend to be self-selected for a preference for a more suburban/small-town way of life. But the people expressing that preference are increasingly varied, coming from all over the world and having a wide range of ethnic origins and religious beliefs.
So if by "diversity" we mean something resembling the dictionary definition of
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the condition of having or being composed of differing elements : variety; especially : the inclusion of different types of people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization <programs intended to promote diversity in schools>
then I'd argue that finding that in Roswell is much easier than somehow missing it.
Looking out the windows of my Roswell subdivision, I see neighbors who are Jewish, Muslim, black as well as Catholic and Evangelical. Thus ends the misconception that everyone was going to be upper-middle-class white Christian conservative.
Looking out the windows of my Roswell subdivision, I see neighbors who are Jewish, Muslim, black as well as Catholic and Evangelical. Thus ends the misconception that everyone was going to be upper-middle-class white Christian conservative.
Most of my Muslim friends (Arab, Turkish, and South Asians) live in Roswell and Alpharetta. So there's definitely diversity there... perhaps just a different "kind" than what some people mean by the word. How can I put this in a friendly way... More caramel, coffee, and vanilla swirl, less chocolate. But hey if you have a preferential flavor, find the right community where you feel most at home.
It's so neat to go back and read through this thread over a year later now that I have 10 months experience living in the area!
My family wound up relocating to Roswell in the Roswell North Elementary zone. We rented there for about 6 months and loved everything except for the size of our rental home was less than half the size we were used to. We really wanted to buy something to settle down into long term in the RNE zone, but didn't find anything that was large enough, in our price range, and not a foreclosure that needed $50k in renovations.
After seeing East Cobb in person, it just wasn't where I wanted to live... Nothing too specific, and I know a lot of people that enjoy living there, but it just didn't feel like home to me. Also, I wound up working almost directly off 400, so East Cobb would have been more of a hassle.
To make a long story short, we wound up buying in the Alpharetta/johns creek area- it feels like the crossroads of Alpharetta, johns creek, and Roswell because we have Roswell schools and I think I could probably walk to the city limit of any of them... My whole family loves it here and we plan on never moving again!
As a fellow poster from a year ago,I must agree how interesting this remains.
Unlike LifoLove, I have been somewhat in Limbo with my likely company transfer having been delayed the best part of a year; but I will now be heading out to the area at the end of this year.
However in the last year I have had the opportunity to come out a couple of times and look around the area, and certainly Roswell has become top of my "potentials" for relocating too, supported by great coincidences ....
My in-laws who live in Wales UK, are avid Cruise goers and have over the last year made great friends with a couple who live in .... Roswell and are waiting to "show us round".
My boss to be lives in .... Roswell (not sure if that's a good thing
On a recent trip to the area, I ended up being booked into a hotel just outside ..... Roswell.
So I'm beginning to think we are meant to end up in the area, so I am wondering what peoples opinions of the different schools are, we have two elementary school age girls. From what I have been able to understand, there are no "bad" schools in the area, but is there a "best" and what makes it so.
Thanks for any opinions.
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