Duluth (Norcross, Cumming: daycare, houses, schools)

[Valerie-Lydie]

We are going to visit some houses too in Duluth... your two cents on Duluth? (compared to Cumming for example...)

Thank you

[Georgia]

One thing about Duluth. Zip Code 30097.
This will surround Northern Duluth, Sugarloaf, John's Creek.
I would not suggest anything in 30096, Pleasant Hill Road I85 area.
Duluth would be metro compared to Cummings rural/burb.

[Valerie-Lydie]

the 2 are in 30097

[JBnC]

Hated it, I live in town now. It it a typical suburb: stale and boring.

[Valerie-Lydie]

ok

[Georgia]

Johns Creek/Duluth is not a bad area and heading north on Peachtree Industrial / Duluth is a nice area.
Make sure you are on the Gwinnett side to save yourself the tax burden of Fulton.
It is suburb, and it is opinion. If you like city life then Duluth is not for you. If you like large suburbs with better schools, and everything you need at a slower pace then Duluth will suit.
Good Luck

[Valerie-Lydie]

very interesting comment thank you. There is indeed a house with 8000+ tax per year, and the other one with 4000 tax/year...

[rxlynn]

Originally Posted by Georgia

Johns Creek/Duluth is not a bad area and heading north on Peachtree Industrial / Duluth is a nice area.
Make sure you are on the Gwinnett side to save yourself the tax burden of Fulton.
It is suburb, and it is opinion. If you like city life then Duluth is not for you. If you like large suburbs with better schools, and everything you need at a slower pace then Duluth will suit.
Good Luck

I would say this is very dependent on whether you will be utilizing the school system or not. If so, then I would consider my extra taxes in Fulton to be an investment in school. I've known several people who moved from 30096 to 30097 solely because of school situation. Having said that, the 30096 zip code is a fairly large zip code area - some in a nice area with 350-450K homes, and some (as the earlier poster pointed out, especially the stuff right by the mall, not so much - 125K-150K homes, heavily Hispanic).

One thing that I do like about Duluth that nobody has pointed out yet - it's really convenient to a lot of things. Not too far from the perimeter, and lots of day-to-day things (library, post office, doctors, pharmacies, Target, Wal-mart, fast food, daycare centers) are all REALLY close.

[Valerie-Lydie]

No we are not focusing on schools, just somewhere that fits our needs, personal ones and professionals ones (perhaps). Work is in Norcross.

I like your description of it; we would tend to go towards 400+...

thank you for all the details you provided that gave a more lively picture to Duluth

We will go there on Sunday.