re: OT- Grayson: Buy or Sell?

Smithonia rd here, just east of the light. We should meet at the sonic to fight. You can decide what we fight about.

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Smithonia rd here, just east of the light. We should meet at the sonic to fight. You can decide what we fight about.

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Smithonia Rd is the same as Athens Rd, right? Just the other side of the stop light.

You in Clarke or Oglethorpe?

Do you enjoy the Marigold festival?

You know what we need out here?

Our own waffle house and liquor store.

City council would never allow such things.

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OT- Grayson: Buy or Sell?
Because based solely on test results, it is a fact. Sorry if quantifiable facts hurt your sense of elitism you thought mattered by living in Fulton or Gwinnett. Your schools are very good but your students do not perform as well as Bremen students on the tests given to all of Georgia students as measuring sticks of overall academic achievement. Overall, Bremen City School district performs better on standardized tests than most other districts in the State. How can that be you might ask? Surely it is a little hick town in west Georgia who couldn't possibly have the interest in education that the elites of Fulton and Gwinnett have.

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Sorry didn't mean to offend and your school district is up and coming and my metro Atl bias is probably showing.

Glad that schools in your area are doing well a d haven't been infested with social engineering.It ruined Dekalb Co schools

I lived near Tribble Mill over 10 years ago. It was a Lawrenceville address (halfway between Grayson and Dacula).

My Intel is 10 years old, so take it for what it is worth.

Gwinnett county has great parks. And Tribble Mill is one of the best (horses, lake, cycling, hiking... I think 70 acres if I remember).

We moved up to Dawson County 10 years ago. We are glad we made the move (the real estate crash was not good to my subdivision and other neighborhoods in our area). 3000 square foot homes were selling for $150k. Drug dealers and families who never learned pride of ownership moved in.

I also never missed moving away from Gwinnett traffic. Awful. And the downside to Grayson is that it is not a favorable trip to get on the highways (I'd guess no less than 15+ minutes just to get on the highway... and you are fighting the highway traffic from there).

The neighborhoods may have rebounded since shortly after we left. And I always liked Grayson. There are a lot of changes (favorable) for Forsyth County in the last 5 years, and I won't pretend that Grayson won't have similar improvements in real estate/schools.

But if you are seeing deals too good to be true online, make sure you drive through and see the neighborhood yards. Contact a law enforcement friend (even if he/she doesn't live there, they can make a few calls and get a quick sentiment).

Good luck.

If you are working in Brookhaven, Grayson will be an awful commute. I lived out there after graduating from UGA and worked in Buckhead, and it was over and hour easy each way. I still work in buckhead but live in Roswell, and my commute maxes at 45 mins. Higher price points in Roswell but it is a much nicer area, in my opinion.

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Grayson will be an awful commute

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I've time it twice: 45 minutes driveway to driveway.

I am currently 1hr20-30 one way and been doing it since 2008.

45 minutes is like a dream for me.

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I've time it twice: 45 minutes driveway to driveway.

I am currently 1hr20-30 one way and been doing it since 2008.

45 minutes is like a dream for me.

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If I didn't like you, I would call BS on that. It takes 45 minutes to drive from one end of Lawrenceville to the other.

What route are you taking to brookhaven? And you seriously could get home at rush hour in 45 minutes or are you just referencing the commute in (which can be fluctuated by the time you leave).

My office is directly on the 85 access road, so little to no surface traffic I have to face in Brookhaven.

I have the peach pass so I blow by the schmucks backed up from 285 to Indian Trail.

I take the HOV exit to 316. Usually stop-free to GA20 where I exit, take directly through Lville onto New Hope, then R on Chandler.

It was actually only 38 minutes when I timed it the last time.


Lets add it up-

Office to 85 NB- 3 minutes
North Druid Hills to 316- 20 minutes in HOT lane
316 to GA20- 5 minutes
20/NewHope/Chandler- 15 minutes

Can't believe you've been commuting that far for 8 yrs. You must spend a ton on gas.

Another tip - my FIL was a real estate guy and he would check/compare the number of free lunches in a school district before investing along with scores. Don't know where you would find that though.

My parents lived in Snellville until about 7 years ago before moving to Monroe. Greyson and L'ville seem to be fine...further you go in on 78 though shite goes downhill real fast.