luke3

I lived in West Midtown (or some might call it Westside) for 6 years. Loved it so much I'll be moving back next month. Midtown proper is nice too, just more expensive and busier

RightSide

Thanks for the info. How was traffic to the airport?

trescommas

Second this. West Midtown has sooooo much going on these days. We live about 10 mins away in Smyrna but that area is our go to for food & drink.

JackieChan

I live just north of midtown. I like the area a lot! I’d plan on taking the MARTA to the airport if you live IN midtown especially. Usually takes ~30 minutes to get to the airport when I’m driving. That could be 50 minutes if it’s during rush hour though. From your front door to the airport terminal, MARTA is the quickest and cheapest way to go though.

merica1776

Thread revival. Anyone chosen Newnan over PTC these days. Newnan seems similar but much more affordable. I just don’t want to spend my years looking over to the east with jealousy. Having friends that can relate to the odd pilot lifestyle is important to my wife. Does Newnan have many Delta families that can commiserate together?

Landm

We recently moved to the Newnan area, we relocated from another base. We researched the area pretty heavily and settled on north of Newnan for a variety of reasons. There are a lot of pilots in the area and PTC isn’t too far if that matters to you. PTC may have a little more to do and fewer chain restaurants (if that matters to you), but Newnan has a lot of great non-chain restaurants as well. Shoot me a message if you want more info.

ThreeGreens

College Park

Dummi

Anyone have kids in the public school system in Newnan? Likely making the ATL move soon. Not opposed to private school, but I think public school would be just fine…unless I don’t know what I don’t know

Peabody17

Not quite Newnan, but I had four kids graduate from Fayette County public schools. All are highly successful as adults (CFO, Masters-level nurse, Mayo Dr., Harvard Law graduate).

nene

As a person who moved quite a bit for Uncle Sam during my family's early formative years, usually across country and in the days before the internet, I will let you know that asking people about their school district is about like asking them about a "good church" in the area. Here are three ideas of advice:

1. Inevitably you will get the standard, "our school/church is great, but that one down the street/county line/ across the city is bad". People tend to validate their own choices and poopoo the others, it's human nature.

2. Even crappy schools can have amazing teachers and "amazing" schools can have crappy teachers. Much of it is luck of the draw. Best you can do is actually seek out the leadership of the school, because they often set the tone of the whole school. Some hold people accountable, some phone it in on glide slope to retirement. Your experience vs someone else's at the same school could be wildly different.

3. Almost all schools (public and private) need substitute teachers and as long as you can get a background check you will be eagerly accepted into any schools fold of subs. When my kids were older I got "certified" (usually some fingerprints and a copy of college transcript) to sub at any middle and upper school my kids were considering. Subbing at a school for just a couple of days you learn volumes as to what goes on inside that school, and after doing it in many different schools, you get the sense that there are wildly different environments that schools operate in. Some closer to "free range", some closer to "juvenile detention". Sad part is I was shocked by the amount of apathy exhibited by some teachers and students alike. It truly starts in the middle school years where the students and system start separating students into those there to learn and those who are there for other reasons. Of course this divide grows as the grades tick by as students are continually surrounded by other achievers or others, whereas you'll see high schools were some can barely read, and others are scoring perfect SAT's.

Best of luck in your search. Obviously no two students are the same. Some mature later, some are self motivated, some come from very challenging backgrounds where even coming to school is a challenge. Subbing is a periscope into the heart of the school though, seeing how the school leadership is involved and more than a few times I was surprised by how well run some "well known lesser" schools were and how dismal some "high achieving" were being run. It almost always boiled down to the leadership at the top of the school, like in your airplane, they set the tone and expectations by their involvement and behavior and teachers notice and generally respond.