You daughter needs to be aware that some of the nice apartment communities participate in 'tenant based assistance programs'. This can be a hit or miss opportunity for those tenants not participating. My kids shared an apartment for 6 months in one of the newer and nicer apartment buildings while attending GA State. I was not aware of the program at the time we signed the lease but couldn't get them out of there fast enough after I saw what was happening. Just an FYI so ya'll are well informed.
Georgia , good places to live?
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vtsnowedin
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What? Do you have any links to that?
JimRB
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Jay is correct. There are some beautiful neighborhoods around Emory. Not that far away there are some relatively nice apartments turned condos on Church Street. Probably lots of nice places around but certainly not rural. Not living close to work means you waste a lot of your life commuting. I used to enjoy a 14.5 commute to work which was a less than hour bicycle ride. Not but 15 minutes quicker by car during rush hour. Now I live 46 miles from work now is ride-able in the summer but the roads semi-bicycle safe to get there would make it 50 miles one way. Living far away makes sense if you keep horses or have some compelling schooling situation but not for childless people who want to enjoy other hipsters. Unless of course you really love mountain bike riding which is hard to really do in the city. 
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Looking harder and harder at "walkable" located apartments. Can't see the price of gas staying down for very long and the time spent stuck in traffic is such a total waste and irritating to those who grew up rural and expect to drive non stop except at stop signs from home to work. My county does not have a single traffic light.
Church street added to list.
Church street added to list.
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vtsnowedin
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She may have made a find. A small house for rent less then a mile from the office. A bit pricy but considering the shortness of the commute it maybe well worth it.
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That is the current plan.!
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Well time for an update. She took a trip down to Atlanta and a college friend that lives in the metro area drove her around while she apartment shopped. The house was turned down for maintenance issues. About ten other places of varying quality and location were looked at and a selection was made about ten miles from work. Now the move happens. Turns out the cheapest way to move her stuff from my house to Atlanta is to get a 28 foot box trailer parked at my house for several days.You pack in your stuff as tight as you can and install a bulkhead, then they pick it up, fill the rest of the space with consumer goods heading south and ship it south. Then they deliver it to you at your new location and give you three days to unload it. We asked for it to be delivered just after Christmas. They brought it yesterday (no extra charge) as it was convenient to them. Company is headquartered in the south and their trucks are not set up with tires and chains for Vermont rural roads. Driver showed up at dusk and could not make it up the last plowed and sanded hill in the town road to my house. No cell service or GPS. Driver thought he was going to back down and try another day. Fortunately my wife pulled in behind him blocking his retreat. She busted his chops some for not being able to drive an empty truck where she drives a sixty passenger bus full of kids every day. :laughing: She then told him to hang tight and that she had a big green tractor and a husband that knew how to use it.
I had seen the lights and was walking out to them when I got into earshot and was told in no uncertain terms to fire up the tractor. I immediately obeyed, (I like sleeping indoors) . With the chains I have on it was no problem helping him up the hill and again pulling him backward into the turn around. (He was a bit clueless about keeping his wheels out of the snow banks). So the box sits in the driveway and the tractor has again saved the day. Now to pack it and have them pick it up, then drive to Atlanta to unload it then fly home.
I had seen the lights and was walking out to them when I got into earshot and was told in no uncertain terms to fire up the tractor. I immediately obeyed, (I like sleeping indoors) . With the chains I have on it was no problem helping him up the hill and again pulling him backward into the turn around. (He was a bit clueless about keeping his wheels out of the snow banks). So the box sits in the driveway and the tractor has again saved the day. Now to pack it and have them pick it up, then drive to Atlanta to unload it then fly home.
kevin37b
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Love it !
forgeblast
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We used abf you pack too when we moved. It saved us the cost of hauling cars etc.