Originally Posted by
Brocc15
Here's my favorite parts of Atlanta, I used to live there. Great weather there I miss it. It totally depends on what you are looking for. If you are young and no kids I can probably be of more help yo you because that was my situation when I lived there. If you have kids I have no idea.
Virginia Highlands (Neighborhood in Atlanta)- My favorite area...Lots restaurants and bars, nice but older homes. Houses are very expensive there, but it is a great location. Close to downtown, 17 minute drive to the airport, close to Buckhead, Grand Park, Decatur. Also close to Piedmont park which has festivals and events and it is just a nice huge park in general. There is some theft and some crazies walking around because of it's proximity to downtown, but I always felt safe walking around by myself even at 2 am.
Anywhere north of the city of Atlanta you will have to deal with horendous traffic to get to the airport, but if you don't mind traffic I think there are some nice areas up there too, I am less familiar as the traffic was so bad I avoided that direction usually.
Just spent a weekend looking at places in Virginia Highlands and Little Five Points.
It's got the freaky deaky urban hipster thing going on, where people made their mad coin selling their "sustainable compost" operation to the local waste management place to use as a tax writeoff, or the back room app developer who just sold out for a jillion dollars to Google. Others inherited their houses from their Great Aunt.
The place is nice and has a lot of young urbanite hipsters and other young professionals wandering around. Lots of lofts built in abandoned factories and auto garages. If I bought there, I'd be extra sure to get a place with off street parking.
Like similar places around the country, everything is way, WAY overpriced for what you get, on a cost versus value scale. Last time I saw prices like this for what you got was in the lake area of uptown Minneapolis, and the Summit Hill area of St. Paul.
VERY convienent to the airport, though. Lots of fun stuff to do. If you've got the jack burning a hole in your pocket, or making you a vast %0.25 on CDs, it might be a decent option.
OTOH, I looked up in Gwinette. A zillion miles from everything (except Waffle House). Between the soccer moms and the traffic (which will make you faint), it's an hour to anywhere, no matter how near or far. Unless you're married with some kids, there's not much for single folk other than a big fuel bill.
South Atlanta is very meh. A lot fewer trees and pretty darn flat. You could probably skate as far south as Macon, and do better with home prices and you might get some local character with only a marginally longer drive.
I also traveled down the I-85 Corridor as far south as Auburn, and I didn't see anything that blew my skirt up. Auburn itself is ridiculously overpriced, as would be expected in a college town. You either get way overpriced housing, or college/student housing slums.
If anyone lives in any of these places and likes it, my apologies. Just my opinion.
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