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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] ? for Bev
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:35:11 -0800

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.....





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