[ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek moving to/near Atlanta?

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

	Well as a geek who moved from California only a year ago I can
understand the Fry's attraction. There are now 2 Fry's locations in
Georgia although only the one appears to be listed on the website. The
newest one just opened up in Alpharetta off of Windard Pkwy.

	I'm in the Alpharetta area currently but looking to move out of this
area as soon as we close on our home purchase. I had the distinct
displeasure of having the only options for high speed internet as
dealing with Bellsouth/AT&T or Comcast. Unfortunately where I'm at is
too far from the Bellsouth CO so it's going through a remote DSLAM and
only Bellsouth was able to provide DSL.

Brian Schenken wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Moving my family from California to somewhere near north Atlanta
> (where my new job is)...  We've never been to Atlanta - we are
> shipping our stuff (in a pod) and starting the drive on Monday - Woot!
> 
> I'm wondering if you locals might recommend areas that a geeky family
> should (or shouldn't) consider settling down in.  Proximity to a Fry's
> is a consideration - so Duluth sounds kewl.  My wife and I are gamers
> (kids aren't old enough yet), so an area with an active LAN community
> would be awesome....  Of course good schools and activities for the
> kids are important.
> 
> I keep hearing about Atlanta traffic - is it really that bad?
> 
> On a side note:
> We can't afford to take everything with us on this big move, so I sold
> some of my gear.  I decided to sell my garage pc. (the one I run
> streamtuner on while I scratch my head under the hood of my car).  I
> figured I might as well give it to a new owner with a fresh install of
> the latest and greatest Ubuntu.  On an old 700mhz Slot A Athlon rig-
> (prolly an early t-bird) with 512 ram, a 20 gig hard drive, and a
> relatively new cdrw driive - the install only took about 15 minutes.
> 
> Of course everyhting worked like a dream, booted it up once to turn on
> autologin.  Sold it for ten bucks.  The girl that bought it sounded
> really savvy.  With any luck I planted a seed!
> 
> Regards,
> B
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