School me on ATL (possibly moving there)

Yep... And they are all from the North!

 

If you clowns would keep your minivans and Excursions OTP, traffic would be glorious.

 

I live here. That should be enough to keep you away.

 

South side!!!!

Just gotta watch out for deer, turkey, coyotes, etc. It sucks being 30 minutes from Hartsfield yet being in the country.

Oh, and the beavers will mess up yer swampland if yer not careful. But you can trap 'em.

 

I would have a somewhat flexible schedule. Most times I would need to be there in the AM or evening on any given day. But, I would only prob need to be there 2 or 3 days a week.

BTW what does OTP mean?

 

Outside the Perimeter. That refers to being outside the giant circle that is I-285.

 

Hell, i live just 35 miles east of downtown atl (Conyers), 4 sided brick, 6 bedroom, 3.5 bath, 4400 sq. ft., sitting on 1.44 acres, and my house just appraised at $217K (the market STILL sucks around here, i paid $235K for this place almost 20 years ago.

 

In 83 I bought an old fixer upper ranch in Acworth Ga for just $28k. Nothing special of course. .5 acre. 1200sq ft. Separate garage. Gravel drive. Then the spawl came. Sold it at the peak in 07 for $145k.

 

Listen to what this man says.

 

drove me out

 

Can I come live with you?

 

I think it's been mostly covered but there are some nice areas that are close to PDK. Look around at some neighborhoods that would be closer to 285 as you head north of there. chamblee has some good areas.

the further outside 285 you go the longer your commute. exponentially. we live about a mile outside 285 (dunwoody area) and find that I rarely hit any traffic when I used to travel a lot for work. my wife works downtown and usually has a pretty easy commute (20-30 minutes). She flies out of PDK occasionally for work and it only takes her 10-15 minutes to get there or so. but if you lived on the other side of dunwoody, I bet even just that couple of extra miles would add 15-30 minutes to your commute.

the other option is to live downtown and reverse commute. no problems in the mornings, but these days there's a lot of traffic going into downtown in the evenings. We lived off Piedmont park (piedmont and 12th) for a few years. Loved living in town, but when we had kids we moved back to the burbs. At the time I was working in Rome so I had a bit of a commute, but rode my bike most days when I had to go to the office vs the airport.

 

If I didn't already live here, I wouldn't move here.

OTP sucks, ITP sucks more.

 

lol

 

I am a native and have to say I still love it here. If you can live close to work that makes all the difference in the world. I wish most of people that moved here and complain about the area would move back to where they came from.

 

Amen.

 

Sure has changed since I moved there in 64. Was pretty much all natives.. Now its 60-70% northerners coming down for the job ops. And better weather, no doubt.

 

I work from home 2 days a week and out of the office the other three and it's 6 miles one way. On a bad day my commute takes 15 minutes. If it were just me living here it'd be so much better. I wish everyone that moved here would move back to where they came from and take the people that were born here with them.