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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

She wants a cow, Jersey to be specific, goats, sheep, ducks and chickens and 
a big garden.  She'd like sugar maple trees, peaches and a fig.  Plus, she 
wants snow <g>  I told her she could go vacation at one of those ski places 
up on the norther border.  What is it, Sky something or another.

She really wants to live in the frozen north but her DH might be transferred 
(he's a fleet manager for somebody or another) to Atlanta.

She's supposed to let me know where abouts.  When I know the specifics, I'll 
let y'all know.  I mean, I realized that Atlanta was kinda like a rash 
(spread all over the place <g>) but didn't realise that it had REALLY 
perfected sprawl.  I haven't been then in at least a gazillion years <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> Before I get started,,,,welcome back April!! I have often wondered what
> happened to you!
>
> Atlanta is spread out...All the burbs have what the city does...so you
> can be 30 miles from downtown and still be 'in the city' so to speak.
> Actually, you can be almost 50 miles from downtown and still be, as
> folks around here call it, 'in 'lanta'.  I kid you not, even the elected
> officials of Calhoun will tell you that Calhoun is only 30 minutes north
> of Atlanta, because they consider the outer burbs part of the city.
> Just for kicks, I mapquested my way from EarthNSky to Turner Field,
> which by all forms of reckoning, in is downtown Atlanta.  Mapquest says
> I am 85 miles, and 1 hour and 40 minutes from downtown.  I doubt
> seriously that time accounts for traffic, and I can tell you, having
> driven from coast to coast, that the metro area has some of the worst
> traffic I've experienced..worse than Chicago, Denver, Seattle,
> Portland..KC..St. Louis, etc....been there, done that in rush hour...
>
> Now, I live in the boonies, and I can send you google satellite to prove
> it.  There is nothing around me but National Forest, and yet I am 'only
> 85 miles' away..my boss lives down in the burbs and commutes up here...I
> don't know what people would consider to be a reasonable commute, but
> because the Big A is so big, you would probably work in the burbs
> anyway, making any commute shorter.  Many, if not most, commute from
> burb to burb, only venturing in the city for entertainment.
>
> Hardwood forests are everywhere...Atlanta itself is called the city of
> trees...more freakin' trees than you can imagine in a city.  Does this
> person want a tract of woods or a true forest...you can find 50 acre
> tracts of woods-thick woods you can't walk through- even in the burbs,
> shoot, probably even in the city...maybe not 50, but 20... ;)
>
> It is really too big of a question to answer as it will depend on where
> one ends up working....working in the airline industry would put one
> looking on the south, east, or west sides, working for IBM would put you
> up on the north side..
>
> As a general rule, the further south you go, the flatter it is, with the
> coastal plain-the old fall line-straddling the state south of Atlanta.
> The northern suburbs would probably be technically the edge of the
> piedmont, and up where I live, you would be on the Appalachian chain 
> proper.
>
> If your friend is a horse person, and wants a horse farm, then she wants
> to look east towards Conyers (Olympic Equestrian area) or north towards
> Cumming, Alpharetta, and Canton.
>
> Give me more info.....