School Ratings Thread - Start One & Keep On Top? (Atlanta: real estate market, how much)

[RainyRainyDay]

We're on the same page, kaday.

Lots of people on the forum report, like you, that they are surrounded by other transplants. Everyone in my (older, cheaper) East Cobb neighborhood seems Very Southern, and I get the feeling they are not particularly keen on the northern invasion.

[kaday]

We do still encounter the Northern invasion stuff.


It is funny to be considered a "New Yorker" you have to have lived in the city for ten years so that did not happen, in Massachusetts we were always and would always be outsiders. I wonder how long it will be until I am not the "Jersey" girl here. I guess maybe I'll have to finally lose the accent!

[TakeAhike]

Maybe I'm an aberration, a native, but I have never been around people who were that interested in 'Yankees or transplants', meaning they didn't classify people in that way.

As the traffic/air quality has gotten worse I have 'blamed' anyone/everyone connected to bringing this slice of H into my life.

[kaday]

That is refreshing. I'd rather Just be a person. Sorry about all the traffic issues we ar causing. Hopefully you don't mind all the prosperity that comes when the population swells.

[TakeAhike]

Originally Posted by kaday

That is refreshing. I'd rather Just be a person. Sorry about all the traffic issues we ar causing. Hopefully you don't mind all the prosperity that comes when the population swells.

Somebody needs to let DOT know about all the prosperity and then they can magically create roads and rail lines. Then I'd like something done about the environmental noise.

[kaday]

That would be nice. Maybe they could magically create some bike lanes too! Then we'd have fit people instead of fat and clean air instead of dirty.

[kaday]

Actually one thing that attracts people to this area is how nice people are! Maybe if you were all just a little bit saucy the word would get out! People for the most part are so darn friendly, how could anyone resist?

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by RainyRainyDay

If I could go back to 2002, I'd probably want to look for housing ITP. We're very happy with the East Cobb schools, but we don't feel at home in the community. Everyone is SO conservative and Republican. But nobody warned us about that.

I get the impression that East Cobb is somewhat conservative compared to much of the rest of Cobb County.

[RainyRainyDay]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

I get the impression that East Cobb is somewhat conservative compared to much of the rest of Cobb County.

Thanks, RC. This is really Off Topic for the schools thread, but actually this forum is making me feel that the metro area is more socially and politically diverse than I had been able to perceive, and that's cheering me up a bit.

My family would certainly be left-leaning if we could vote (not citizens yet). My 8th grader is aware of exactly two kids at school whose families vote Democratic. Social and political views get discussed a lot at middle school, it seems, in social studies class, at lunch, etc., and it's very clear that literally 99% or more of her fellows have been raised to believe that non-Republican sympathies are so outlandish they are practically akin to supporting Osama Bin Laden or joining a satanic cult. It makes one feel isolated.

[sparrison]

Greg,

Good idea! I like to use GreatSchools.net and publicschoolreview.com