What's rome like (Atlanta: hospitals, colleges, crime)

[pattibug]

Can anyone give me some info on rome ga, I hear it's really nice there.

[Georgiafrog]

It's a great place to live. Four colleges, three major hospitals, three rivers, has a great downtown, it's in a beautiful valley surrounded by hills you can see from most places in town, has a great victorian district, a thriving music scene, a large outdoor community with plenty of trails and parks, and is constantly improving. The local government is very receptive to citizens through the city webpage. Downsides would have to be the crime rate, although it is extremely localized in a couple of bad areas, and traffic is beginning to be a problem on the main roads. But as far as a place to live, I moved from the Atlanta area and have lived in several states breifly in the Eastern U.S., and I will never move again.