Where to AVOID around Marietta and...

[6Digitballin]

Originally Posted by netdragon

The part of Marietta South of Marietta Parkway and South of Powder Springs Street is yucky (except along Atlanta Road), but not too much in there is what I'd consider unsafe -- just low income. It's a patchwork in there. There are some nicer neighborhoods and then some high-density low income housing neighborhoods mixed in. As you get closer to Whitlock and Roswell Rd in the North and closer to the E-W connector in the West, Marietta starts to get nicer.

To simplify -- just stay North of the airforce base or otherwise you'll want to be East of 75.

I agree. I use to stay over there and my Hond agot stolen.

[6Digitballin]

Originally Posted by KevK

Those are all good neighbourhoods. The only place to avoid is a small section of Franklin Road in Marietta (hopefully they will condem and demolish it soon).

Yeah, this girl I met off of Black Planet lived over there and she was ghetto fabulous!

[6Digitballin]

Originally Posted by Seaharbour

Kennesaw, Cartersville and the general area of Atlanta???I do not want to get stuck in a bad neighborhood if and when we accept this location for employment, thank you!

is that near Vegas Nights? What is the best night to go?

[yami29]

It all depends where you are going to work at. The daily commute is horrible to and from Kennesaw. The part of Marietta you want to be in is the East Cobb part-the schools are excellent!

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by netdragon

The part of Marietta South of Marietta Parkway and South of Powder Springs Street is yucky (except along Atlanta Road), but not too much in there is what I'd consider unsafe -- just low income. It's a patchwork in there. There are some nicer neighborhoods and then some high-density low income housing neighborhoods mixed in. As you get closer to Whitlock and Roswell Rd in the North and closer to the E-W connector in the West, Marietta starts to get nicer.

To simplify -- just stay North of the airforce base or otherwise you'll want to be East of 75.

FWIW -- there really isn't very much of the actual Marietta city limits located NE of I-75, though much of that area claims a Marietta mailing address.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

FWIW -- there really isn't very much of the actual Marietta city limits located NE of I-75, though much of that area claims a Marietta mailing address.

Yes, there is...a lot of those relatively new subdivisions off of Allgood, Scufflegrit, Sandy Plains, and Barnes Mill Roads are in the Marietta City Limits: East Worthington, East Park, The "Camerons", Briarwood, Stone Gate, Brentwood, Eagle Ridge, etc.

Take a look at a map. A lot of people don't realize it...they think the aforementioned neighborhoods go to the Sprayberry (or Wheeler) cluster schools...but they in fact attend Marietta High and Sawyer Road or Lockheed Elementary Schools.

[netdragon]

Originally Posted by 6Digitballin

is that near Vegas Nights? What is the best night to go?

Vegas Nights is a bit farther South but not too far away.

Along with getting nicer North of the base, things also start getting nicer a couple blocks into Smyrna to the South.

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

FWIW -- there really isn't very much of the actual Marietta city limits located NE of I-75, though much of that area claims a Marietta mailing address.

There isn't much compared to the West of the highway, but I'd still peg it as being at least 5 square miles (looking at GIS). Interestingly, according to Cobb County GIS, South Cobb Drive and Atlanta Rd West of the base isn't truly Marietta and I thought it was (though West of South Cobb Dr is Marietta as you get closer to Powder Springs Street). Southwest of there is unincorporated Milford, but I wonder what the area directly to the West of the base is considered (like Old Concord Rd after it leaves Smyrna). Well, anyway, I learn something new every day.

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

I think Netdragon was referring to Marietta specifically, not Cobb County in general.

Right, to the area to the East of Dobbins AFB, and directly to the West of Dobbins (though I guess most of that isn't Marietta but unincorporated). None of Kennesaw is bad. There are small parts of Kenessaw that are industrial and aren't the prettiest (industrial never is), but nothing bad as far as residential is concerned.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by aries4118

Yes, there is...a lot of those relatively new subdivisions off of Allgood, Scufflegrit, Sandy Plains, and Barnes Mill Roads are in the Marietta City Limits: East Worthington, East Park, The "Camerons", Briarwood, Stone Gate, Brentwood, Eagle Ridge, etc.

See for yourself. The blue bits are Marietta.

It really doesn't cover much area NE of 75 unless they've been annexing land very recently.

Although I guess it's all relative. As Netdragon says, it's five square miles. That's not small potatos. Except when compared to the rest of Marietta.

[7DigitballinATL]

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[Love Cobb]

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