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Great place if you're into Strip Clubs, Swinging, Superficial people, Churches, Confederate Flags, and Georgians who are still living in the 1800s and have a hate for the Northerners that they call Yankees or Californians that they call Crazies! The Jazz scene, movie theatres, and outdoor festivals are good, but you will often see the same people at the same events. Single black women should get use to seeing groups of African American men hanging out in groups or on dates! If you're married get prepared to divorce, because those wearing wedding rings are more attractive to the single men and women. Many single people want to play with the Cow, but prefer to have Farmer Jake pay for the food! Despite the Sodom and Gomorrah interaction between the people, the Atlanta area is beautiful with great restaurants and often poor service, unless you stay within the Buckhead Life Group collection of restaurants. The weather is humid and very, very, moist, and if you own a home, very few repairmen/contractors will know how to fix anything, but they will surely charge you an arm and a leg, and you will have to find someone else to once again mess up the job. Cheap homes, as long as nothing has to be repaired! Finally, most people travel, and it is often to Florida by car! Lots of people don't get around town to hang out because they have to drive way too far to meet friends. If you live in Marietta and friends are located in Stone Mountain the commute is thirty-five miles one way which means you will spend a lot of gas and time! This leads to another problem, there are plenty of Golddiggers, Moochers, Con-men and Bums attempting to survive off of your hard work! It's the Atlanta way when you have so many people moving to an area where they think everyone is making money and living large. When they get to the ATHell they have to survive, and they do so by finding Sugar Mamas, Sugar Daddies, or Married Men and Women. This is an environment where desperation prevails. Desperation for a job, a good contractor, a dedicated and honest husband or wife, or an honest good friend. I won't even begin to discuss the bitter and angry women who are often dumped for the next best deal, because the Golden Rule is for men to get a Wife with money and a home, and then get a Life so they keep groups of women on hand to bang after the wedding and for the long, long years of marriage! This is a problem everywhere, but it's simply a public joke in the ATHell! THAT'S ANOTHER STORY!
Last edited by tokyoblue; 10-14-2015 at 11:01 PM..
Athens, Madison and Social Circle are great choices.
Climate: Except for a little summer humidity, the climate is relatively very nice for the Eastern U.S., great for outdoor activities on an almost year-round basis...
People: The people are generally very friendly...
Real Estate: The real estate is priced relatively very affordably, especially when compared to heavily populated coastal areas on both the East and West coasts...
Food: The food is great with lots of variety from typical American cuisine, to typical Southern cuisine to lots of Northeastern and Midwestern-influenced foods because of the many Northeastern and Midwestern transplants to North Georgia...
Traffic to and from Atlanta and Athens: Traffic can be tough at times during peak hours between Atlanta and Athens along highways like Georgia 316 and US Highway 78, particularly closer to Atlanta during peak hours....But traffic will improve somewhat with the recent elimination of some very busy at-grade intersections along GA 316 through the Lawrenceville area, traditionally one of the state's most congested stretches of roadway during peak hours...
Crime: Most areas are generally safe, particularly in the outer suburban, exurban and rural counties surrounding Atlanta, though crime can be a bit of a problem at times in the more populous counties closer to Atlanta...
Job market: The job market in Georgia (particularly in the Atlanta metro area) is on the mend and improving after many years of a great amount of struggle during the severe economic downturn of the late 2000's and early 2010's....Though the job market remains somewhat soft across many sectors as it the economy continues to recover and improve...
Schools: The schools range from fair to good to great to excellent in many places, particularly in the expansive Atlanta suburbs and exurbs where the schools have many more resources to work with (courtesy a larger tax base) than most places in rural Georgia...
Recreation: Lots of recreation options from manmade lakes used for recreation, flood control and water supply throughout North Georgia, to the heavily wooded ranges of the Southern Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains in extreme North Georgia, Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee (the famous and popular Appalachian hiking trail ends just about 80 miles or so north of Atlanta) to the beaches and resort areas of the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf Coast.
There are quite a few cities and towns that fit the criteria of what you are looking in terms of being fun, cute, up and coming and safe, though many of them are not necessarily within an hour of the world-leading Atlanta Airport because the Atlanta metro region is so spread out over such a relatively large geographical area.
Some other towns to consider are:
> Acworth (cute historic downtown with many small shops and restaurants)...
> Woodstock (very popular booming cute historic downtown with many small shops, restaurants and bars)...
> Canton (cute historic downtown on the rise)...
> Roswell (very popular cute historic downtown)...
> Norcross (popular cute historic downtown with a baseball heritage)...
> Duluth (popular cute historic downtown with a popular town green on the rise)...
> Suwanee (popular cute retrofitted downtown around a town square park with many events)...
> Buford (popular and adorably cute historic downtown with and up-and-coming live and active artists colony)...
> Dahlonega (very popular and adorably cute historic downtown in a small mountain city with a growing college campus...city was the site of the nation's first gold rush in 1828).
The humidity isn't as bad as it seems (and certainly nowhere near as bad as the humidity can be at lower elevations throughout the Southeastern and Midwestern U.S.).
(...Or maybe I'm just used to the high humidity having grown up and lived all of my life in an area that tends towards really humid summers.)
That's because Atlanta's relatively higher elevation moderates much of the severest humidity and summer heat and the worst of the heat only lasts for about 3 months tops (June, July and August) and does not affect the area every summer.
Plus, you may be surprised with many relatively cooler (and even many relatively colder) days at times from September through May.
Acworth? Seriously? You do know that its nickname is Crackworth right?
Thank you all for the answers so far! Born to Roll you should be commended for you incredibly detailed answer. Can't wait to look up some of those listed areas!
I noticed people saying that Athens and Madison are further than 1 hour from the Atlanta airport. When I search Madison to Atlanta airport directions on Google maps it's telling me 58 minutes with traffic, maybe I'm being naive in thinking that Google has an accurate estimate on that though? And yes Athens is further at about 1h30 travel time from the airport. I guess I should've stated that the 1 hour rule or "code" was more like a "guideline". 1h - 1h30 is fine. Trying to avoid the 2 hour mark especially.
Depends on your time of travel. Atlanta area traffic is never fun.
Great place if you're into Strip Clubs, Swinging, Superficial people, Churches, Confederate Flags, and Georgians who are still living in the 1800s and have a hate for the Northerners that they call Yankees or Californians that they call Crazies! The Jazz scene, movie theatres, and outdoor festivals are good, but you will often see the same people at the same events. Single black women should get use to seeing groups of African American men hanging out in groups or on dates! If you're married get prepared to divorce, because those wearing wedding rings are more attractive to the single men and women. Many single people want to play with the Cow, but prefer to have Farmer Jake pay for the food! Despite the Sodom and Gomorrah interaction between the people, the Atlanta area is beautiful with great restaurants and often poor service, unless you stay within the Buckhead Life Group collection of restaurants. The weather is humid and very, very, moist, and if you own a home, very few repairmen/contractors will know how to fix anything, but they will surely charge you an arm and a leg, and you will have to find someone else to once again mess up the job. Cheap homes, as long as nothing has to be repaired! Finally, most people travel, and it is often to Florida by car! Lots of people don't get around town to hang out because they have to drive way too far to meet friends. If you live in Marietta and friends are located in Stone Mountain the commute is thirty-five miles one way which means you will spend a lot of gas and time! This leads to another problem, there are plenty of Golddiggers, Moochers, Con-men and Bums attempting to survive off of your hard work! It's the Atlanta way when you have so many people moving to an area where they think everyone is making money and living large. When they get to the ATHell they have to survive, and they do so by finding Sugar Mamas, Sugar Daddies, or Married Men and Women. This is an environment where desperation prevails. Desperation for a job, a good contractor, a dedicated and honest husband or wife, or an honest good friend. I won't even begin to discuss the bitter and angry women who are often dumped for the next best deal, because the Golden Rule is for men to get a Wife with money and a home, and then get a Life so they keep groups of women on hand to bang after the wedding and for the long, long years of marriage! This is a problem everywhere, but it's simply a public joke in the ATHell! THAT'S ANOTHER STORY!
Your tirade would be easier to read if you would occasionally press the ENTER key.
Great place if you're into Strip Clubs, Swinging, Superficial people, Churches, Confederate Flags, and Georgians who are still living in the 1800s and have a hate for the Northerners that they call Yankees or Californians that they call Crazies! The Jazz scene, movie theatres, and outdoor festivals are good, but you will often see the same people at the same events. Single black women should get use to seeing groups of African American men hanging out in groups or on dates! If you're married get prepared to divorce, because those wearing wedding rings are more attractive to the single men and women. Many single people want to play with the Cow, but prefer to have Farmer Jake pay for the food! Despite the Sodom and Gomorrah interaction between the people, the Atlanta area is beautiful with great restaurants and often poor service, unless you stay within the Buckhead Life Group collection of restaurants. The weather is humid and very, very, moist, and if you own a home, very few repairmen/contractors will know how to fix anything, but they will surely charge you an arm and a leg, and you will have to find someone else to once again mess up the job. Cheap homes, as long as nothing has to be repaired! Finally, most people travel, and it is often to Florida by car! Lots of people don't get around town to hang out because they have to drive way too far to meet friends. If you live in Marietta and friends are located in Stone Mountain the commute is thirty-five miles one way which means you will spend a lot of gas and time! This leads to another problem, there are plenty of Golddiggers, Moochers, Con-men and Bums attempting to survive off of your hard work! It's the Atlanta way when you have so many people moving to an area where they think everyone is making money and living large. When they get to the ATHell they have to survive, and they do so by finding Sugar Mamas, Sugar Daddies, or Married Men and Women. This is an environment where desperation prevails. Desperation for a job, a good contractor, a dedicated and honest husband or wife, or an honest good friend. I won't even begin to discuss the bitter and angry women who are often dumped for the next best deal, because the Golden Rule is for men to get a Wife with money and a home, and then get a Life so they keep groups of women on hand to bang after the wedding and for the long, long years of marriage! This is a problem everywhere, but it's simply a public joke in the ATHell! THAT'S ANOTHER STORY!
I live in Georgia and it's awesome. There is good and bad but on balance I love living in Savannah. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
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Left the ATHell for something better!
