Georgia , good places to live?

[DennisArrow]

What do you consider ridiculous water and property taxes? And is there a state income tax or sales tax?
Vermont has a six percent sales tax on everything except food and an income tax that runs about twenty seven percent of what you owe the feds so your idea of outrageous and ours might vary quite a bit. Property taxes run 2.15% of the market value per year so a 200K house gets a bill for $4300 plus sewer and water if it is available.
Her present car is paid for and still in good shape by Vermont standards so that can wait.

Surely NOT to argue nor lecture. Just reading what is put here and responding to that. The above sure seems, to this old guy, of a rebuttal to advice with a Vermont bias comparison reply. If it seems rude or going into criticism....SORRY.....Do not intend it that way; but again.....just commenting on what is put here to read. I don't hide behind the anonymity of the internet with my comments and thoughts but for some....it's easy to twist what I say to meet their needs..........

Easy for a concerned parent to look up "Atlanta Crime Statistics" and check out WHERE stuff is happening. It isn't just crack. It's miles and miles of public housing that has brought about generational welfare with the associated social issues. Even the suburbs have their share of this. Did you notice in the advice given, that FEW would suggest moving or living south or east of the airport???...........Actually most of Clayton and Dekalb counties are areas that really are not the best to take an evening stroll into anymore........God bless.....Dennis

 

[vtsnowedin]

Ahem!! Someone is rather cross today aren't we?
I was replying to this bit of a rather nice post.

If it is a great paying job there are lots of nice neighborhoods inside the Perimeter. Some moderate, some pricey and some super expensive. Of course you have to be aware of ridiculous water bills and property taxes.

Notice it gives no figures so it is a matter of personnel perspective. Wanting to pin it down I asked for more detail and gave my actual numbers out as a starting point for comparison. I certainly was not rebutting that taxes and water bills are outrageous. Of course they are, just some are more outrageous then others.
While I've been waiting for some more replies here I've been googleing around looking for answers myself. It appears your sales tax is from 6 to 8 percent depending on county and your State income tax will be about $1000 more then VT's on the same income but your property taxes are about half what VT's are. Moving into the state Georgia makes you pay a sales tax on your cars value even though you have already paid in full where you bought it. "Welcome to Georgia". Your DMV seems just as bad as mine if not worse.
I haven't got to crime statistics by county yet but We have a couple of months before a move is likely so there is time for that.

 

[/pine]

...We get a lot of flatlanders here in Vermont that have moved up from Boston to get away from the urban hustle. They love the quiet and solitude but soon complain about the lack of curbside recycling. Before you know it they are running for school board or the State legislature and trying to show us the proper way to do things. Sound familiar?

Most folks that are originally from the south would find this quite amusing...

 

[MacLawn]

Well, tell ye daughter come on down, and welcome! I'm from Augusta, go to Atlanta often. Eh, traffic, yeah, but that's everywhere nowadays in a big city. Crime is always my main concern about anywhere I might go. Wha's that site, city-data.com, or some such? You'll get some ideas from there, to be taken with the old salt grain, but it might help. Buckhaid is know to be expensive! I like the area around wha's that mall? Perimeter Mall? Might can find decent rental there. Also that other mall, Lenox. But, that's up by hwy 400 and I-85, about worst incoming morning traffic area of Atlanta. And, like every other big city, some areas make ye feel like ye're no longer in America. She'll do good, and we hope she loves it!

Hehehehee, this thread in Rural Living! Not nary rural living within 50 mile radius of Atlanta downtown hardly! Oh, and please do not put sugar on ye grits. If you try them, that is. Not that it'll give you away, we don't care about that, it's just they don't taste good that way. Creamy, real butter, put an over medium egg on top so yolk can mix in with ye grits.... Mmmmmm, me comfort food I tell ye.

 

[/pine]

Hehehehee, this thread in Rural Living! Not nary rural living within 50 mile radius of Atlanta downtown hardly! Oh, and please do not put sugar on ye grits. If you try them, that is. Not that it'll give you away, we don't care about that, it's just they don't taste good that way. Creamy, real butter, put an over medium egg on top so yolk can mix in with ye grits.... Mmmmmm, me comfort food I tell ye.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Around here call em "gray-its" :laughing:

 

[vtsnowedin]

I tried grits once... that's it just once. I like my oatmeal with maple syrup on it. When I think of southern comfort food ,peach cobbler, fried chicken and chicken fried steak comes to mind. Lot's of good choices out there from all around the world but you are welcome to my share of the world's grits.

 

[GPintheMitten]

I got a taste for grits when I was in the south quite a bit when I drove truck.

I have to admit sometimes I put sugar and and butter on them. But I also liked them with butter salt and pepper.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Hehehehee, this thread in Rural Living! Not nary rural living within 50 mile radius of Atlanta downtown hardly!

Yah I hear you on that one. Touring around on Google Earth I can see your suburbia full of cookie cutter houses just goes on and on. At least they are not all the same flavor of cookie.:licking:
Lots to choose from but it is nice to have the job that brings on the move and can pay for the choices.

 

[Beavz]

I never understood the grits craze either...

Untill I got some good ones.

Shrimp & cheese grits are THE BOMB!

 

[dave1949]

Grits and fried eggs with the yolk runny is one of my favorite breakfasts. Salt, pepper and butter in the grits, take a spoonful of grits and mix it into the egg yolk. Rib stick'n eats.