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Anonymous wrote:The last time I watched HHA, there was a guy with a $40K budget looking for a nicer 3-bedroom townhouse relatively close-in to downtown. And he found it.

I remember that episode, but I also remember the discussion about it on the House Hunters TWOP forum, and people said it was a really ghetto area. Like buying in Seat Pleasant or Capitol Heights.

They must mean Ashby not Ashburn. Ashby is what most folks might consider hoodish, but it's near the heart of downtown Atlanta which is why people want to live there. A lot of the 'top' neighborhoods in DC used to be the ghetto also, that didn't stop folks from buying there.

Anonymous wrote:The last time I watched HHA, there was a guy with a $40K budget looking for a nicer 3-bedroom townhouse relatively close-in to downtown. And he found it.

I remember that episode, but I also remember the discussion about it on the House Hunters TWOP forum, and people said it was a really ghetto area. Like buying in Seat Pleasant or Capitol Heights.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Alpharetta (north of atlanta) and we bought a 3 bed 2600sq ft house with nice big fenced yard for 220k. Only catch is my commute in the morning is 1 hour and that is only to the perimeter, not downtown. I have no regrets but do miss the Fairfax and DC area occasionally.

So the ashburn of atlanta seems very affordable.

It's all like Ashburn there. Atlanta is gross.

? New planned livable communities? Yes terrible. What do you prefer mish mash of shit shacks, overhead lines and roads that weren't built to handle the population?

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Alpharetta (north of atlanta) and we bought a 3 bed 2600sq ft house with nice big fenced yard for 220k. Only catch is my commute in the morning is 1 hour and that is only to the perimeter, not downtown. I have no regrets but do miss the Fairfax and DC area occasionally.

So the ashburn of atlanta seems very affordable.

It's all like Ashburn there. Atlanta is gross.

Anonymous wrote:A friend bought in Buckhead in Atlanta. I don't know Atlanta well, but it seems to be a desirable area and the pictures of the neighborhood look gorgeous. House prices seem to be in the 1 - 1.5 million range.

That's Buckhead -- which is the Georgetown of Atlanta.
I still have a house there -- south dekalb county...20 min to downtown...you can still get a house there for WAYYYYYY less than you can here.
Just a different market. But yes, the closer intown you live the more expensive.

Anonymous wrote:Atl sucks. I hate driving there. It is absolute terrifying . And the thing is- you have no choice, you have to drive. And 20 mins from the city is easily like an hour.

It depends on where you are going. Yes, Atlanta traffic is verryy bad, but the thing about ATL is there are lots of street ways to get places.

Anonymous wrote:Atlanta is getting a lot of federal government relocation and outsourcing in the next few years for this reason.

And Atlanta is not the only mid-size and more affordable city which will be seeing federal largesse spread its way in the next few years.

Atlanta is getting a lot of federal government relocation and outsourcing in the next few years for this reason.

Anonymous wrote:I watched on HGTV about MoCo. Very misleading. They bough a newish and big home in MoCo for $700K. It was way out and out of the school districts that most people move to MoCo for.
Also saw one on Alexandria... close to the "beach" and new... Its a TV show.

I watched a one of those 'sell this house' on HGTV set in Georgetown (back when I happened to be living there) and the guy kept using Glover Park and Burleith homes as the comps. It was ridiculous. The markets are so difference and they kept calling two of the homes not even close to 'Georgetown's border's.

I agree--a lot of the ones filmed in this area are highly inaccurate.

A friend bought in Buckhead in Atlanta. I don't know Atlanta well, but it seems to be a desirable area and the pictures of the neighborhood look gorgeous. House prices seem to be in the 1 - 1.5 million range.

Housing is just really overpriced here. Even in the suburbs where there is plenty of land, you'll still pay more here. The county I live in restricts building a lot and that drives up the price. Whereas in the Atlanta area they were building homes left and right, there was so much supply it drove prices down.

Con tractors smell money and rape dc

I watched on HGTV about MoCo. Very misleading. They bough a newish and big home in MoCo for $700K. It was way out and out of the school districts that most people move to MoCo for.
Also saw one on Alexandria... close to the "beach" and new... Its a TV show.

You are paying for the land here.

Lots are valued very high.

Lots in our Arlington neighborhood run $850-950k---and they are tiny. This is before a house is even started.

Cost of living is also much higher and it translates into paying more for architects, builders, plumbers, electricians,permits and materials.

If that's what you want day in day out.