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joshuatrio says

and we’re going to take up diving lessons this year.
A lot to give up.

Believe me, Florida diving is awesomely comfortable compared to Florida. When I lived there I'd go about every 6 weeks on average. Many fond memories of diving off Boynton Beach with just my backplate&wings and swim trunks, and NO WET SUIT. I really get tired of the cold water and crappy viz out here. Check the forecast, drive down in one day, dive my brains out for as long as I or the weather would last, then head home. Also saw a Shuttle launch that way, drove down, they scrubbed it, so I drove back home. Repeated until the launch was successful. Didn't have to PLAN a serious vacation with plane tickets and hotel reservations and OMG the weather sucks I just wasted all my money!

joshuatrio says

we have a large circle of friends, frequent Big Sur and San Jose frequently, not to mention my addiction to surfing - and we’re going to take up diving lessons this year.
A lot to give up.

hmmm, so you value relationships and experiences over the square footage of an "owned" home & size of the lot that it sits on?

sounds like another Blue state commie pinko rather than a Red blooded Patriot.

sybrib says

joshuatrio says

we have a large circle of friends, frequent Big Sur and San Jose frequently, not to mention my addiction to surfing - and we’re going to take up diving lessons this year.

A lot to give up.

hmmm, so you value relationships and experiences over the square footage of an “owned” home & size of the lot that it sits on?
sounds like another Blue state commie pinko rather than a Red blooded Patriot.

Lol - ok, ok. It was just an idea. The thought of being mortgage/rent free sounded nice. It was my darn co-worker who brought up the Atlanta area and put the bug in my ear.

We've got an 8-10 foot swell tomorrow, so I'm sure a few nice waves with crush the idea. The Atlantic just produces slop.

Waitingtobuy says

BTW, most of the nice places in Atlanta are either in town, or north of the city. Austell and the rest of the suburbs west and south of the city, are IMHO, the sticks. You will be bored to tears coming from California.

Lol! you pretty much described what Santa Clara County was back in the day.
And you will find even today people, mostly long time natives, moved to the "sticks" like Gilroy and Morgan Hill to get away from the craziness of todays valley.

Imagine for a momement what Sunnyvale or Mountain View or even the so called "Fortress towns" must of looked like back in the 70s and early 80s...

joshuatrio says

We’ve got an 8-10 foot swell tomorrow, so I’m sure a few nice waves with crush the idea. The Atlantic just produces slop.

As they say "Charlie dont Surf".... If your a surfer, and I been hitting Steamers and the Hook for decades, thats your passion in life, but thats not for everyone.

Misstrial says

This is the second recent promotional posting of the Atlanta area I’ve come across in less than one week.
I think the strategy is to come on to California forums and talk it up. Seems to me to be mainly real estate agent or desperate investor sales pitches. Whatever….
The Real Housewives of Atlanta actually live in the Atlanta suburbs, Alpharetta being one.
If you want to get a look at what the ghetto-rich $30k millionaire neighbors will be like in the Atlanta suburbs, have a look at the show.
:/
~Misstrial

What happened to those number #1 seeded Falcons too ? LOL

Vicente says

Didn’t have to PLAN a serious vacation with plane tickets and hotel reservations and OMG the weather sucks I just wasted all my money!

Yep, it's a nice thing about living in the bay area, vacationland ground zero.

thomas.wong1986 says

Lol! you pretty much described what Santa Clara County was back in the day.
And you will find even today people, mostly long time natives, moved to the “sticks” like Gilroy and Morgan Hill to get away from the craziness of todays valley.

Imagine for a momement what Sunnyvale or Mountain View or even the so called “Fortress towns” must of looked like back in the 70s and early 80s…

I'm sure you're right, but I think there is a big difference between Gilroy/Morgan Hill and Austell. People move out of the San Jose area to get away from the "craziness". I would imagine people from small towns in the south move to Austell because they have "hit the big town".

Most of the professional people that move to ATL from other large metro areas will move to northern Atlanta or Buckhead, not to Austell, even if the price on a home is $200K. The median income for a family in Austell is $39K. For Dunwoody, which is north of the city, it is $100K. Big difference. (For Morgan Hill, it is $108K and San Jose, $86K). Unlike the Bay Area, land is not limited in ATL, so suburban northern ATL has plenty of room to grow.

Of course, Im stereotyping, but it holds pretty true. Like-minded people tend to congregate in similar locations.

joshuatrio says

Waitingtobuy says

BTW, most of the nice places in Atlanta are either in town, or north of the city. Austell and the rest of the suburbs west and south of the city, are IMHO, the sticks. You will be bored to tears coming from California.

That would be the biggest concern. Since moving to this area, we have a large circle of friends, frequent Big Sur and San Jose frequently, not to mention my addiction to surfing - and we’re going to take up diving lessons this year.
A lot to give up.

If you're addicted to surfing, you are out of luck. You would be miserable in ATL. Im not even mentioning your circle of friends. I think you might be surprised by your circle of friends in Austell. I know Im sounding like a snob, but like minded people are more likely to congregate in similar places.

If I were a betting person, and of course not knowing you, if you hang at Big Sur and in San Jose, you are more likely to be more comfortable in Buckhead, Vinings, or Little Five Points, all of which are inside the Perimeter, than a place like Austell or Lawrenceville. The minute you step inside the Perimeter, the prices on housing are only maybe 20% less than the nicer areas in the Bay Area. There goes your big savings.