5 best and 5 worst places to live in GA? (Atlanta, Columbus: law school, quality of life)

[MayorOfMacon2019]

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[syn]

what is your opinion about Snellville (eastmont Cove) subdivision. How is the crime in the area. I know there are lots of store which I like and the high school Siloth is not great. But all in all how is the area zip 30039

[syn]

Originally Posted by Forsyth-Online

Are you looking for around Atlanta?

How is the crime in snellville (eastmont Cove) subdivision?

[Cruikshl]

Originally Posted by GP2

Best:
Dublin
Warner Robins
Forsyth
Bolingbroke
East Dublin (outside of town- in the country)

Worse
In or around Douglas
Savannah
Macon
Atlanta
Newnan or Lagrange

I'd agree on Lagrange ,disagree big on Newnan

[jscmom]

Hi All,
I'm so confused. There is a possibility we will be moving to GA in a few months. My husband's job will be in ATL. Coming from Southern Cal- he's use to a rotten comute.
I think 30 to 45 minutes is the longest he would like to commute. (he's last commute took 1hr on a good day!)
I was told we want to stay north of ATL, but not to go any farther than Cummings. Some suggestions were:
Crabapple
Johns Creek
Alpharetta
( i'm not married to these locations)
We have one child. Of course I'm looking for good schools, but more than their state test scores I want to find caring teachers-our child has some developmental delays - so special inclusion education is important.

I know we will be living in the south, but we need to live amongst diversity and not bigotry.

Any and all help would be truly appreciated!

[ATLCOL1]

Originally Posted by jscmom

Hi All,
I'm so confused. There is a possibility we will be moving to GA in a few months. My husband's job will be in ATL. Coming from Southern Cal- he's use to a rotten comute.
I think 30 to 45 minutes is the longest he would like to commute. (he's last commute took 1hr on a good day!)
I was told we want to stay north of ATL, but not to go any farther than Cummings. Some suggestions were:
Crabapple
Johns Creek
Alpharetta
( i'm not married to these locations)
We have one child. Of course I'm looking for good schools, but more than their state test scores I want to find caring teachers-our child has some developmental delays - so special inclusion education is important.

I know we will be living in the south, but we need to live amongst diversity and not bigotry.

Any and all help would be truly appreciated!

Coweta County (Newnan) and Fayette County (Peachtree City) are on the southside of the city. These cities are just as nice as anything on the northside. The northside is too congested. If he is working downtown or midtown I would go to these 2 cities. Less traffic and good schools.

[Peachylibrarian]

Amen to Fort Gaines! There is NOTHING TO DO THERE, but it sure is pretty. Schools are crap. I taught there once.

[King_X]

Originally Posted by ATLCOL1

I imagine Columbus is closer to Albany than Macon.

but he said a REAL mall. I'm sure that 1 floor piece of crap in Columbus is no better than Albany's mall.

[King_X]

Cities as large as ATL, Macon, Augusta, Albany, Savannah, Columbus, etc. have different sides of town...different areas etc.

When you deal with metropolitan cities, I think its pretty stupid to label the entire city as "dangerous, poor, etc." because you have so many parts of town that are different from other areas.

As I've said....I'm from Macon and my neighborhood is middle class and black. No bums walking around here, no nightly fights, no shootouts. Not in my area or many other areas. IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE IN THE CITY, WHEN YOU DEAL WITH LARGER SIZED PLACES.

[JLA]

Here we go again. You would think that a teacher's kid would have a better out look on life than how BIG IS YOUR MALL or HOW MANY HIP-HOP clubs do you have. No matter how you try to build Macon up, the city is still a small city with crappy infrastructure. Macon is stuck in a 80's time warp. Where as you might think that Columbus's shopping experience is bad, the truth is that there are thousands more who do not live in Columbus, who know that the shopping here is fabulous. Your city is shrinking and a new strip mall is not going to correct that. I guess we will take the crappy mall and the rest of the crappy shopping here and continue to grow and expand while Macon, Augusta and Savannah continue to contract as more people leave the city. If I use your logic, then the reason why they are leaving is because they are looking for the malls.