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Old 03-09-2010, 08:15 AM
 
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I have lived in Alpharetta, Vinings, Smyrna, and now Cumming. I have lived in Atlanta for 10 years and also find it is hard to make & keep friends. In my experience everything is subdivision driven. As soon as someone who you are friends with moves out of your subdivision the friendship ends. The reason I think is traffic. When people drive all week they don’t want to go anywhere on the weekends. All of our neighbors have been really friendly. When we lived in Alpharetta my husband worked in Roswell. But when his office moved to the 75/285 area we moved because it took him 1 hour plus each way. When we moved we were now 45 - 60 minutes from are friends in Alpharetta. It is hard to get together when you are that far away. We then made great friends in the new area and now we are back in the north 400 Alpharetta/Cumming area and we rarely see the people from the Smyrna area. Part of it is we moved and part our friends have moved around the city. If you stay in the neighborhood and you don't move or your neighbors don't than you can make and keep friends. Atlanta is a big and spread out city and lots of people come and go. Overall I think it friendly but the traffic makes it hard to drive out of your way to see people. Not sure if this is how other feel but this is our story here in the ATL.
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Old 03-10-2010, 06:13 AM
 
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I have lived in Alpharetta, Vinings, Smyrna, and now Cumming. I have lived in Atlanta for 10 years and also find it is hard to make & keep friends. In my experience everything is subdivision driven. As soon as someone who you are friends with moves out of your subdivision the friendship ends. The reason I think is traffic. When people drive all week they don’t want to go anywhere on the weekends. All of our neighbors have been really friendly. When we lived in Alpharetta my husband worked in Roswell. But when his office moved to the 75/285 area we moved because it took him 1 hour plus each way. When we moved we were now 45 - 60 minutes from are friends in Alpharetta. It is hard to get together when you are that far away. We then made great friends in the new area and now we are back in the north 400 Alpharetta/Cumming area and we rarely see the people from the Smyrna area. Part of it is we moved and part our friends have moved around the city. If you stay in the neighborhood and you don't move or your neighbors don't than you can make and keep friends. Atlanta is a big and spread out city and lots of people come and go. Overall I think it friendly but the traffic makes it hard to drive out of your way to see people. Not sure if this is how other feel but this is our story here in the ATL.
I think you make a very good point. We have friends in Peachtree City whom we rarely see because it is so far to drive--1-1/4 to get from our home to theirs (one-way in good traffic). So I guess the moral of the story is to stay in one place here!
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Old 03-10-2010, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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I think you make a very good point. We have friends in Peachtree City whom we rarely see because it is so far to drive--1-1/4 to get from our home to theirs (one-way in good traffic). So I guess the moral of the story is to stay in one place here!
An alternative: get to know people who have a common interest which isn't always tied to the same geographic location and which is spread around the metro.

We have friends all over now. Most of them don't live near us, and we haven't moved.
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