anyone in GEORGIA??

well numerous reasons..

we have been wanting to get out of this area… my husband and i both of grown up here and are pretty much tired of it! fairfield county is VERY expensive, very stressful, and very high paced. we are having a hard time getting started. the average house here is about half a million! down there the homes are a 1/3 of the price as up here. as well as i dont like the freezing cold, i love it down south, and i would like shane to grow up in an town that is more community oriented( we dont even know our neighbors), and i feel like the people down south are A LOT friendly. as well as we are interested in a church down there that my husband loves the pastor (which is not the main reason but a bonus). and finally my husband is a mortgage broker and there is a lot of opportunity down there because there is tons of major development going up.

well thats all our reasons.. but the good news is that my parents and now other family members are looking into coming as well! soo we feel a lot better.

That’s why I left Long Island. I couldn’t stand the congestion, the crime, the expensive cost of living, and most of all the rude people. Mid-westerners are so friendly and I love that. And I love that my children are growing up in a small town.

Good luck Lauren, with your search. I hope you find something soon and that your family will follow with time.

yea we are looking in alpharetta!! thats so great. i dont know if you said that because you realized in my first post that that is where i said we were looking.. or if you said it because you thought of it on your own to let me know what towns are good. but i am so happy you said it! haha. i have been really nervous about moving.. but i keep hearing how good of a town it is! we are going down in 2 weeks to visit and to look at different counties. is alpharetta really expensive in comparison to all the other counties?is marieta close to alpharetta?? mayve we can have play dates if its close!! if you think of anything else about the area or any other advice feel free to let me know! i am soo excited !

We live maybe 20ish mins from Alpharetta, a bit more or less depending where we go, but we’re up there all the time, austin has dr’s in Alpharetta. I like the mall there MUCH better than the one that’s closer to where I live. Playdates would be SO much fun, my sister has a 9 month old! The taxes aren’t that big of an issue in my opinion they’re really not that much higher (don’t know the actual #’s). I shop there and here and haven’t really noticed a huge difference in price! They have so many cool things here for kiddo’s and LOL I know ALL of them, a lot have been here since I was little. There’s an awesome petting zoo, all the animals are miniatures!! Aidan had a ball when we went.

LOL Tiffany, I know I was so suprised that that article cited Decatur, unless there’s some VERY tiny corner I don’t know about!!!

The area around Highway 92 (not actually a huge highway) is seriously growing-I think that’s in Alpharetta too, That’s where a friend of mine lives who got the house that is so much cheaper than ours and NEW!!!! I live in Cobb county and even though the taxes are a tiny bit cheaper, the houses are WAY more expensive (well, in East cobb, other places in Cobb are cheaper) it’s hard to find even an old house here for under 250-makes no sense to me honestly.