Making an offer on this house tomorrow

[Thudz]

Great schools, great property and perfect price. Wish us luck.

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The wife loves the kitchen and I love that I don't have to renovate it.


The whole house is very spacious especially the master suite with ajoined sitting area.


The Man Cave


Plenty of nature included.

[Moristans]

Good luck Thudz!!

[Fretty]

Holy wow, nice place!
Good luck Thudz!!

Got room in the basement for one more? :wink:

[Grieve]

Wow, that is a pretty sweet house. Bedroom is humongous. Probably very rude to ask, but how much do huge palaces like that go for down in Atlanta? I know Vanessa (from EMC) bought a massive place there just recently. How does it compare to the DC area?

Where are you going to keep your armoury?

[1000xZero]

Good Luck Thudz!

I hope you get it and your family is very happy living there!

[Thudz]

Wow, that is a pretty sweet house. Bedroom is humongous. Probably very rude to ask, but how much do huge palaces like that go for down in Atlanta? I know Vanessa (from EMC) bought a massive place there just recently. How does it compare to the DC area?

Where are you going to keep your armoury?

It really depends on the neighborhood. In my current neighborhood this house and land would be $400K+. However we are moving just 7 miles away to a more rural county and this house is listed at $229K.

[Thudz]

Holy wow, nice place!
Good luck Thudz!!

Got room in the basement for one more? :wink:

Only a small percentage of homes down South have basements. We viewed a couple that did and we were considering this home and another that had a basement but choose this one because of the stellar school system.

[Breand]

However we are moving just 7 miles away to a more rural county and this house is listed at $229K.

This makes me weep openly. That house would be around 700k where I live. Atlanta is probably my least favorite city in the U.S. tho hehe.

[Thudz]

However we are moving just 7 miles away to a more rural county and this house is listed at $229K.

This makes me weep openly. That house would be around 700k where I live. Atlanta is probably my least favorite city in the U.S. tho hehe.

I've been here for three years and haven't gone inside the perimeter. Where I am you would have no idea you were anywhere near Atlanta unless someone told you. I'm in suburban/rural paradise.

[Fretty]

Suburban rural paradise is my dream personally. =)

So...I know nothing of Atlanta...why is it disliked so much?

[Breand]

Well if I moved there I'd be working in downtown Atlanta because Id be at either Turner or CNN.

I did a ton of work down there years ago, the company I worked for had an office there as CNN/Turner were our main customer (boradcast equipment). I usually stayed at a hotel in Buckhead, which was very nice, but Atlanta itself and the basic office environment I saw freaked me out. And the weather sucks. And the traffic sucks.

I dunno, at the time I was a typical Northeast Liberal Hippie and I never stayed in any Southern state for any length of time and was very freaked out by the racial lines drawn down there. Segregation to me was alive and well, particularly when you see how every community is gated.

[Thudz]

The segregation I see here is by class which I believe is everywhere. There are distinct delineations between rich and poor neighborhoods. The upper middle class and the upper class blend in some areas.

As for the weather, I love it. We have four hot months but the rest of the year is absolutely beautiful.

[Breand]

The segregation I see here is by class which I believe is everywhere.

I think it's safe to say residential areas are segregated everywhere, it certainly is on Long Island, altho I don't see gated communities where I am. But the workplace was crazy. If you were a professional you were white, if you worked a service job you were black. At least that's how I viewed it as a NE hippie at the time. This was 10 years ago tho, perhaps times have changed.

[Thudz]

The segregation I see here is by class which I believe is everywhere.

I think it's safe to say residential areas are segregated everywhere, it certainly is on Long Island, altho I don't see gated communities where I am. But the workplace was crazy. If you were a professional you were white, if you worked a service job you were black. At least that's how I viewed it as a NE hippie at the time. This was 10 years ago tho, perhaps times have changed.

We have several black people who work in my office. Although we don't have a black person in development there are in QA, Support and our Data Center. Those job range from slightly technical to very technical. During my commute I see a wide varitey of professionals, suit and ties, driving to work. The area of Atlanta I am in is prodominately White however. The largest minorities in my sons' school are Indian and Asian.

Gated communities are very popular here and can be found on $800/month apartment complexes and $1million+ single family communities. People love their gates down here. I personally hate the damn things, they are broken half the time and letting the delivery person through the gate is a pain. The community this house is in is NOT gated and I prefer it that way.

[Jakensama]

I think it's safe to say residential areas are segregated everywhere, it certainly is on Long Island, altho I don't see gated communities where I am. But the workplace was crazy. If you were a professional you were white, if you worked a service job you were black. At least that's how I viewed it as a NE hippie at the time. This was 10 years ago tho, perhaps times have changed.

That was certainly not true of Savannah when I lived their as a kid.. It was amazing as you had the old money who thought they were an aristocracy (much like New Orleans - news flash, snobs, you live in a shithole of a town!) and then the straight up hood right down the street. I remember Atlanta being a ghetto but haven't been there since I was 10 or so...

Houstons got pretty good 'rich block 2 blocks down from crack block' areas too.

I think the segregation is in the suburbs, if you live in residential places in cities its generally more mixed. Unless the city is some scum bucket like Baltimore where its a hellhole everywhere.

Then again, my extended Georgia family is pretty much white trash so maybe I just never saw the nice segregated communities.

[Thudz]

You have to realize that Atlanta is HUGE. It has very nice areas and very bad areas. I live in a very nice area surrounded by other very nice areas which are then surrounded by average areas. The city/suburb of Atlanta that I live in has a population of over 100K and averages less than 1 murder a year. From 2004 - 2006 there were NO murders. Last year there were two and it was a boss who killed two of his employees. I would certainly never generalize a US city from what I read in the paper or saw on TV or from a weekend visit.

[Jakensama]

Most suburbs of big cities are just giant bubbles.

[Grieve]

It really depends on the neighborhood. In my current neighborhood this house and land would be $400K+. However we are moving just 7 miles away to a more rural county and this house is listed at $229K.

Damn, that's insane. I guess you must be right about the wide varience depending on the area you are in, since Marnie tells me Vanessa's house was over $800k (yikes).

If we can ever get out of West-by-god-Virginia, I think we're going to need to start looking down there. Just think, we could be neighbors - wouldn't that be AWESOME??

[Slamz]

Just think, we could be neighbors - wouldn't that be AWESOME??

There you go, ruining the area's murder rate!

[Thudz]

It really depends on the neighborhood. In my current neighborhood this house and land would be $400K+. However we are moving just 7 miles away to a more rural county and this house is listed at $229K.

Damn, that's insane. I guess you must be right about the wide varience depending on the area you are in, since Marnie tells me Vanessa's house was over $800k (yikes).

If we can ever get out of West-by-god-Virginia, I think we're going to need to start looking down there. Just think, we could be neighbors - wouldn't that be AWESOME??

We've looked at homes that were comparible to this one but were across the street in the Polo Club and they started at $800K and went up from there. You pay for prestige down here. You pay just to tell others you live in the Country Club or the Polo Club. I prefer to save my money and spend it on other stuff.

[Vllad]

I won't give away where Thudz lives just incase Grieve wants to pvp him but in general as Thudz knows I hate Atlanta.

Actually everything south of the Mason Dixon and east of the Mississippi are all the same. Trash states.

I lived in Atlanta for 5 years and it was complete hell.

The worst food, weather and people in America. Let me just write out my own personal rant on Atlanta.

People with out teeth:

Sweet Tea, Sugar Water and no Fluorindated water = No Teeth

Southern Drawls:

Seriously sir I have no idea what you said...

Need to make an appointment 6 months in advance to see a dentist:

Southern Formula

A + B - C = D

A=Southerners
B= No Teeth
C= No Dentist

D= Long Appointment times for those that have teeth.


Talking Religion:

Every southerner will ask you with in the first 3 questions of you meeting them "Did you find your church ok" How do you know I don't worship the great cow?

Always say your good bye's to your guest before you walk outside in the summertime:
Their are so many bugs outside at night you have to scream in order to hold a conversation.


Droughts:

It is impossible to have a drought when it rains everyday!

Learning to read:

Tyrone is not pronounced Tier One.
Cowetta is not pronounced Cow Wetta

It's no wonder every street name starts in Peach, it's the only thing they can pronounce.

Food:

Food is considered spicy when you put salt on it.
Taco Bell is NOT Mexican food!
I would rather catch Montezuma's in Mexico then eat at Waffle House.

Landscape:

A pile of dirt is not a Mountain. Get over it you don't have mountains in Georgia. Stone Mountain is a pile of rock and nothing more.

No Mam, Georgia isn't all that beautiful in-fact Georgia looks just like Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas. Flat, hot, bugs and tree's.

You can never own white shoes because eventually the red clay will turn them red FOREVER!

Weather:

Summer runs from April until November. The heat in the summer causes you to do less then a winter in Buffalo. It is a known fact that you can die faster with out air conditioning in July in the south then freeze to death with out a heater in the North East.

If you leave the house with your hair damp, it won't dry the entire day.

Slang:

Sir, Just what exactly does fixin to eat a burger mean? If you need to Fix a burger before you eat it I would like to know how it was broken in the first place??

Things are so big in the south that the simple word big was removed from their vocabulary. In the south it is BigOle.

The south is so lazy that they merged words to save time. Yall is a perfect substitute for the word "everyone".


Traffic:

Everyone watches to much NASCAR because no one here drives less then 80 miles an hour. Combine this with no seat belts at least we keep evolution working since every accident ends in a fatality.

Georgians complain when their average speed dips below 50 and say Atlanta Traffic is bad. LA hasn't seen an average speed of 50 since 1975.

You know you have to many waffle houses when every driving direction you give involves turning at a Waffle House multiple times.



Rituals:

Instead of cremating our dead we throw them in the shed.

If it is offensive we will put it in writing on our trucks.

We will invite even the people we hate to a party.

We will wave to people we don't even know.

If any one is threatening to jump off of a building anywhere in Atlanta the first thing we do is bring all traffic to a stop!


I fucking hate the south.

Vllad

[Jakensama]

There are occasionally some cute girls, if you get them young before their teeth fall out.

[Kakarat]

I can't read the link... blocked at work. But I have to ask. Does it have a swimming pool in the basement like the rest of the houses in Atlanta? :lol:

[Thudz]

Vllad,

Your post is a testament to just how diverse the Atlanta metro area is. I know you lived on the south side and I would not in a million year live there. I live on the North side and I love it. I've lived in NY, VA and MD and this particular slice of GA tops them all for me. I also, by the way, rarely ever see somebody with no teeth. And maybe 1 in 100 people has any type of Southern accent at all.

[Breand]

Well, I did use to go to the same restaurant (in Buckhead...it has a giant fish sculpture outside) every night because it was the only decent meal. I didnt really see the type of people Vllad is talking about though, but I really only dealt with professionals. The fatty to skinny quotient is VERY high tho. I think every engineer at Turner was at least 300 pounds.