moving to Atlanta,GA : Yay,Ney and Why?

[dja4260]

Originally Posted By: cdeason
Nope, that was Columbia, Greenville is an hour to the mountains and 3 hours to the beach, Charlotte and Raleigh a little further


My wife and I plan on moving to Greenville in a few years after I finish grad school. That place is beautiful!

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: dja4260
Originally Posted By: cdeason
Nope, that was Columbia, Greenville is an hour to the mountains and 3 hours to the beach, Charlotte and Raleigh a little further


My wife and I plan on moving to Greenville in a few years after I finish grad school. That place is beautiful!

Good for you!
how's the baby?

 

[Mr Nice]

Pandus,

What does your wife say about changing jobs ?

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
Pandus,
What does your wife say about changing jobs ?

She's at home carting the kids around and managing our other small time gig.
Not an easy task, which is why i don't like the "stay-at-home-mom" term.
She's scouring the school ratings, redfin/ GAMLS, and a couple of sites with reviews about ATL northern suburbs....

I would be the main bread-winner, with her joining the force in about 3-4 years (kids out of kindergarten to full time school+activities)

 

[cdeason]

Based on what you are posting, I would dump Atlanta, I had a chance to move back about 10 years ago and passed due to quality of life, with small children it's just not worth it, I would research Charlotte (Union County - Marvin area), Raleigh, Nashville and Greenville, TN has no income tax,

 

[GiveMeAVowel]

Atlanta is a bad, bad place = ghetto

Some of the northern suburbs are nice, but they are pretty
crowded as well and commuting to work will be a pain.

I'd say you'd have to travel at least an hour from the city to find a decent quality of life.

 

[Home]

I ran across this while looking for something totally different, and I thought I would add my 0.02...

Atlanta native & involved in real estate for 15 yrs.

I would consider looking in the North Fulton area. (Alpharetta/Johns Creek/Milton). There are also some other areas around Forsyth County, Cherokee County, some of Gwinnett County that may meet your needs.

Alpharetta is pretty affluent, and the price of real estate can be hard to swallow sometimes. (Both buying and renting) Some of the other areas I mentioned are a bit lower in price.

A lot of IT jobs are located in the Alpharetta/Johns Creek area as well, which is very important. As others have said, traffic is a real challenge.

We have almost no snow here. Typically just a couple of days a year with a "major" snow storm where the snow MIGHT cover the grass and melt completely in just a day or two. Summers are hot and humid, but not to the extent that Florida gets it. We do usually have 4 seasons.

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: Home
I ran across this while looking for something totally different, and I thought I would add my 0.02...

Atlanta native & involved in real estate for 15 yrs.

I would consider looking in the North Fulton area. (Alpharetta/Johns Creek/Milton). There are also some other areas around Forsyth County, Cherokee County, some of Gwinnett County that may meet your needs.

Alpharetta is pretty affluent, and the price of real estate can be hard to swallow sometimes. (Both buying and renting) Some of the other areas I mentioned are a bit lower in price.

A lot of IT jobs are located in the Alpharetta/Johns Creek area as well, which is very important. As others have said, traffic is a real challenge.

We have almost no snow here. Typically just a couple of days a year with a "major" snow storm where the snow MIGHT cover the grass and melt completely in just a day or two. Summers are hot and humid, but not to the extent that Florida gets it. We do usually have 4 seasons.


THANK YOU! (Wild guess which area wife is looking?)

 

[dja4260]

Originally Posted By: pandus13
Originally Posted By: dja4260
Originally Posted By: cdeason
Nope, that was Columbia, Greenville is an hour to the mountains and 3 hours to the beach, Charlotte and Raleigh a little further


My wife and I plan on moving to Greenville in a few years after I finish grad school. That place is beautiful!

Good for you!
how's the baby?


Baby is fantastic! I'm on two weeks of paternity leave as we speak. The first couple of days were difficult, but we're enjoying eachothers company.

 

[montero1]

Originally Posted By: pandus13
Originally Posted By: montero1
The only good thing about my Mom living in Marietta, is the fact that I ride through the Smokies, and Blairsville- love riding the Gautlet and visiting Brasstown Bald. Valentino Rossi better lookout, I'm honing my skills as a roadracer every trip down there.

Soo, how do you (safely) go downhill in the twists?


The road to Brasstown Bald is to be ridden very slowly. The Guantlet is my racetrack.

 

[montero1]

Originally Posted By: Nitronoise
Your More then welcome , I have a few years left before I get my kids out of college and GA does look apealing to me as I ride motorcycles and the season is about 10 months out of the year
( retirement Perk)

if you go get ready for your first snow fall it is the funnyest thing you being from chicago , watching the good folks of GA drive in snow , I laughed my ( *#$ ) off watching that happen the first time i was there and it snowed 2 inches they shut EVERYTHING down for 3 days

Glad I could be of assistance

Nitronoise



I survived Snowmaggedon 2014 in Atlanta. I have never seen anything like it. Talk about a paralyzed city. Cars stranded all over, it was like a Stephen King novel. It took me 4 hours to go 6 miles on I-85. Luckily my hotel let me stay an extra night. The day after the snow was even freakier. People slept in some Grocery stores and in Home Depot. The roads were just sheets of clear ice. I saw a woman, walking with a toddler in one hand, and pushing an infant with another in a stroller. The mother falls, brings the toddler down with her, while the stroller goes sliding/rolling down the sidewalk, into a bus stop enclosure. Classic.

Their idea of treating the roads were three yokels throwing salt/sand out of buckets from the back of a pick-up truck.

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

Some more about Charlotte. My middle son is in IT. He works in the health care industry. Just talked to him yesterday. Told me that he has been contacted by 2 different head hunters since the first of the year. Apparently there is some movement in IT locally. OTOH, local schools have taken a down turn. Last 20 years has seen major white flight. Something to consider.

 

[linkbelt]

Originally Posted By: montero1
Originally Posted By: Nitronoise


if you go get ready for your first snow fall it is the funnyest thing you being from chicago , watching the good folks of GA drive in snow , I laughed my ( *#$ ) off watching that happen the first time i was there and it snowed 2 inches they shut EVERYTHING down for 3 days



Nitronoise





Their idea of treating the roads were three yokels throwing salt/sand out of buckets from the back of a pick-up truck.



You Don't know what you are talking about! I worked and retired with Ga DOT with 34 years of service. I was in Highway Const. in the Atlanta area. Every time they had an "ice storm", I saw our Maint. Dept. work 24 hrs/day/ with salt spreaders and snow plows, (if needed) to clear the interstate Highways! Out DOT hired contractors to help with the
work, if needed.

The problem is not "three yokels throwing salt out of a pickup truck". The problem is: drivers do not slow down for road conditions, cause accidents and tie up the roads and Interstates like I-285 around Atlanta. They just leave their cars and walk away!
The DOT has actually had to take const. equipment and push this junk off our Systems to keep traffic flowing!

 

[GiveMeAVowel]

Originally Posted By: linkbelt




You Don't know what you are talking about! I worked and retired with Ga DOT with 34 years of service. I was in Highway Const. in the Atlanta area. Every time they had an "ice storm", I saw our Maint. Dept. work 24 hrs/day/ with salt spreaders and snow plows, (if needed) to clear the interstate Highways! Out DOT hired contractors to help with the
work, if needed.

The problem is not "three yokels throwing salt out of a pickup truck". The problem is: drivers do not slow down for road conditions, cause accidents and tie up the roads and Interstates like I-285 around Atlanta. They just leave their cars and walk away!
The DOT has actually had to take const. equipment and push this junk off our Systems to keep traffic flowing!



You are right, it isn't the lack of salting, plowing, and such it is UNPREPARED and UNSKILLED DRIVERS CAUSING THE PROBLEMS!

It's understandable that folks in the Atlanta area don't know how to drive in winter weather, and therefore they should stay the heck off the roads and prevent serious accidents and injuries for the rest of us that DO know how to drive in the snow and ice.

 

[montero1]

They failed to cancel school when they knew the night before there was inclement weather coming.....they let them out early onto the snow covered highways around 12 Noon....so then the parents left work early as well. The roads never got treated the night before. Those morons had the same thing happen the year before, so they went and bought a bunch of equipment but never used it for this storm. I indeed did see three yokels standing in the back of a pickup spreading salt or sand out of paint buckets in Kennesaw.