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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Ooh, someone said something mean about ashBURNNNNN. I am not sure what you mean by shit shacks. Undergrounding power lines is an advantage of new PUDs - its also being done in the Columbia Pike corridor now, and in DC. Lots of wide roads - that has advantages. But I note biking and walking mode share is very low in Loudoun County.

I am glad some people like living in Ashburn. I appreciate have some alternatives to it though.

Atlanta is very sprawling, not hemmed in by water features like the DC metro and the land is cheaper. And, there are fewer "type a" hyper-competitive people there (in general) so I don't think *most* are going to go for bidding wars, escalation, etc... They will just say "screw this" and build further out, or find a new job closer to the house they do chose, if possible.

Yes, and workers in the private sector avoid Atlanta for that very reason.

A strong, highly educated, and vibrant pool of professionals, particularly from African American backgrounds, is one reason to relocate more federal functions to this area.