Poll 2 of 2: What areas of metro ATL do you live in? (Atlanta: HOA, houses)

[netdragon]

Out of curiosity, what areas of metro ATL do you live in? Please share opinions and details on commute and liveability. If "Other", please mention where. I apologize if the groupings aren't what you would choose. I only had 30 options. There's a few more spaces if I left out something big.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by netdragon

Out of curiosity, what areas of metro ATL do you live in? Please share opinions and details on commute and liveability. If "Other", please mention where. I apologize if the groupings aren't what you would choose. I only had 30 options. There's a few more spaces if I left out something big.

I love where we live: a 20-year-old John Wieland subdivision (Stoneybrook) in the tree-covered hills of NW Mableton ... perhaps 200 yards south of Smyrna ... in a 4BR house with a large partially wooded yard on a quiet backwater street. The house isn't as fancy as some, but it's well-built, and it's ours.

The neighborhood is quiet and safe, the house was relatively inexpensive at the time we purchased it, and the HOA seems to be both reasonable and inexpensive given the good condition that the common facilities (tennis courts, pool, common party building) are in.

My wife works near the Cumberland Mall and has a tolerable commute even though she drives during prime-time rush hour, and I take a very similar route to work which is a breeze because of the time of day that I drive.

I feel sorry for folks in newer subdivisions who have a huge house but very little privacy from neighbors. Heck, we can't even see the windows on the houses on either side of us, and in the summer the backyard trees/leaves are so thick that our rear neighbors might as well not exist.

Is it perfect? No. We can't really walk to stores or anything, though the Silver Comet Trail is within easy reach as are a couple of smaller parks, but there are a lot of stores and restaurants in either direction on the E/W Connector from our location just off Cooper Lake Road. That's the only flaw I can think of, though, at least from our point of view.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by netdragon

Out of curiosity, what areas of metro ATL do you live in? Please share opinions and details on commute and liveability. If "Other", please mention where. I apologize if the groupings aren't what you would choose. I only had 30 options. There's a few more spaces if I left out something big.

I love where we live: a 20-year-old John Wieland subdivision (Stoneybrook) in the tree-covered hills of NW Mableton ... perhaps 200 yards south of Smyrna ... in a 4BR house with a large partially wooded yard on a quiet backwater street. The house isn't as fancy as some, but it's well-built, and it's ours.

The neighborhood is quiet and safe, the house was relatively inexpensive at the time we purchased it, and the HOA seems to be both reasonable and inexpensive given the good condition that the common facilities (tennis courts, pool, common party building) are in.

My wife works near the Cumberland Mall and has a tolerable commute even though she drives during prime-time rush hour, and I take a very similar route to work which is a breeze because of the time of day that I drive.

I feel sorry for folks in newer subdivisions who have a huge house but very little privacy from neighbors. Heck, we can't even see the windows on the houses on either side of us, and in the summer the backyard trees/leaves are so think that our rear neighbors might as well not exist.

Is it perfect? No. We can't really walk to stores or anything, though the Silver Comet Trail is within easy reach as are a couple of smaller parks, but there are a lot of stores and restaurants in either direction on the E/W Connector from our location just off Cooper Lake Road. That's the only flaw I can think of, though, at least from our point of view.

I'd recommend our area to anyone. Whether they'd like it or not is a different story, I suppose. I know I do!

[netdragon]

Heh, I live off Camp Highland so you're not too far away :-)

I'm not too surprised to see that the highest populations pretty much mirror the highest tallies here.

[rcsteiner]

Why did my edited posting appear as a new one? Could the moderator please clean my nearly-dupe post up, since I can't seem to "edit" it at all in this thread...??

[Tdiddy0027]

I live in the SW metro in the Newnan Peachtree City area. Lots of growth but still not overcrowded. The drive to Atlanta is quick and almost always traffic free.

[plessthanpointohfive]

I chose the Eastlake one but I could have chosen the Druid Hills, too. I'm sort of in between in Candler Park....