We will leave Thursday to drive back and stop over to see our granddaughter, Sydney, in Fayetteville, Arkansas! Audrey is a senior at Milton and Sarah is a Sophomore! They have Choir, volleyball and equestrian events for us to attend! Thank you for all your help! Patricia
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On Sep 5, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Daryl <d*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:
700 miles in one day? Ouch! It sounds like youâll have a wonderful time
together. How long will you be in the area? Both Alpharetta and Roswell
have welcome centers. I donât know if theyâll be open for the holiday weekend,
so if you need a suggestion for someplace to go to play tourist, just holler.
Beware the traffic, though. Dragon Con and football games are going on in
the city and itâs likely to be wild and wooly.
d
From: f*@rewrite.hort.net
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 10:38 PM
To: g*@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] moving again questions
Thank you! It is so much fun to read your stories about the area!
We are driving towards Alpharetta today! Today we drove over 700 miles! We
made it to Van Buren, Ar. We hope hope to get up early to drive the rest of the
way. Our son is flying in tomorrow so we are going to have a great time. One
granddaughter couldn't make it, she is in college in Fayetteville.
Thank you again for all your help!
Patricia
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On Sep 4, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Daryl <d*@rewrite.hort.net>
wrote:
As far as I know (which isnât much) most homes are rented unfurnished,
but there are quite a few furniture rental places in the area. In any case,
youâve now got the names of several golf communities so perhaps you can narrow
down your rental hunt some. Thereâs an outfit thatâs been advertising pretty
heavily recently. Itâs called Renterâs Warehouse and they specialize in
finding and vetting tenants for homeowners who want to rent out their homes.
It might be worth giving them a call. (404) 662-2322 I donât know anything about them,
though. One of my friends at church had her house burn down a couple of years
ago. I will ask her who found them their rental.
There are also some golf communities in Roswell, which is just south of
Alpharetta. Brookfield is one such, an older community, relatively flat yards,
many with trees. One advantage to living in Roswell or parts of
Alpharetta is that thereâs easy transportation to the airport by shuttle bus.
Thereâs one that stops at the Holiday Inn on Holcomb Bridge Road â or did â
thatâs relatively inexpensive. I know that several companies now offer
residential pickup in Alpharetta and Roswell, but theyâre about 130 round
trip. Driving to the airport every week can be a real bear. Been there, done
that. Weâre out of the service area where we are.
Roswell is a historic community. It was founded in the early 1800âs.
Sherman messed it up quite a bit, but it rebounded well. The Presbyterian
church in town still bears the scars of his men who, while they didnât burn
down the church (used it for a hospital), removed a cupboard door and painted
a checkerboard on it!
My parents lived in Roswell from 1975 until Dad moved to be nearer my
sister in 2011. Itâs a nice town and the older sections are generally quiet.
Alpharetta also has some older, quieter sections but much of it is raw and
new. When we moved here in 1981, the main exit off of GA 400 here had just
been paved the year before. The worst traffic jam was one of Andersonâs steers
getting out of its pasture. Now the road is 4 and 6 laned and traffic noise is
constant. They are even 4 laning the quiet road a block away from us. Itâs
sick-making.
d
From:
f*@rewrite.hort.net
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 3:48 PM
To: g*@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] moving again questions
Daryl,
Thank you for such great information! I am not sure we will buy a
house right now. Don's job is a new position and lots of traveling. We
both think we need to live temporarily until we know more about his job.
He is wishing he could retire and he wanted to move to Colorado, our son wants
to be transferred back to Colorado, I just wasn't excited about being in a new
area, city, and state so far from my kids and him traveling all over the
country. I have been looking at VRBO's or furnished homes that we can
live in and decide where we want to stay. When we moved to Rockport 2+
yrs ago, I sold or gave away most of our furniture. I thought it
would be great to travel lighter. I bought a few things and when we left
Houston I gave away all but my sewing machine/cabinet, cedar chest and our
bed. It still took the biggest pull type U haul to move our 'stuff' to
our barn in Oklahoma. We have been living out of hotels since August
15th and for the year before that an apartment (my first apartment ever) in
Houston. It would be wonderful to find a place with at least a patio,
grill and room to grow a few things. We thought when we let go of all of
our furniture we could go 'full time RV' if we decided to do that.
I think my 60th birthday has been more tumultuous than any other
birthday! I grew up in a small town and miss being in a smaller community. I
want to hear birds and nature not cars, horns and traffic. I have never
lived near my grandchildren and one is already in college, one a senior and
the last one a sophomore.
Thank you again!!!!
Patricia
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On Sep 3, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Daryl <d*@rewrite.hort.net>
wrote:
Eeeks! I just read this and apologize for the bad grammar and
misstatements. Trying to type and deal with automatic spell check and cats
jumping up on the keyboard and in my lap while keeping an eye on the
weather does not work. And to think I used to pride myself in multi-tasking.
Not anymore. <wlEmoticon-sadsmile[1].png>
and also to tell you that I know a couple of golf nuts at church who
can give you better advice. I can put you in touch if youâd
like. I think one of them lives here - http://www.alpharettaac.com/
d
From: d*@rewrite.hort.net
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 1:24 PM
To: g*@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] moving again questions
Do you have a price range in mind?
Our email address is Alpharetta even though we live in Forsyth County,
the next county to the north. Taxes are lower here than they are in Fulton
County and home prices can be, too, though theyâre building so many
McMansions thatâs no longer always the case.
I know of one house that isnât far over the county line that was home
to a small nursery and while the greenhouses are gone, the owner has quite a
few nice raised beds if youâd like to do some vegetable gardening and they
also gardened some near the house. No garden or lake, though thereâs a creek
in the back yard.
There are lots of golf course communities. The Polo Fields is one of
them and is a little older than some neighborhoods so many of the owners
have already done soil prep and there are mature trees. Last time I gave a
talk their, the Polo Fields had a very friendly neighborhood newcomers group
as does Olde Atlanta, which also has/had a garden club.
Windermere is nice, but also not on the lake.
Hampton is farther out and has some nice homes on the golf course and a
private lake. Itâs also very near Lake Lanier. So is Cannongate at Lanier â
another older subdivision.
Let me know what youâre looking for and Iâll see if I can find someone
who knows the right place for you.
Would your husband settle for a river view with a nice golf course? I
think I know of one and itâs pretty close to Alpharetta. Actually, all of
these are close to Alpharetta in distance though not in time if itâs a rush
hour.
daryl
From: f*@rewrite.hort.net
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:58 AM
To: g*@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] moving again questions
One more question for the group. We are in the process of making
another move to the Atlanta area. We have been in Texas, Missouri,
Oklahoma and New Mexico but never Georgia.
Does anyone have any recommendations for that area? Our
daughter lives in Alpharetta and we would like to be close enough to be able
to watch our granddaughters choir and sports events. My husband wants
to live near a golf course and a lake but I will be there alone while he
flies away every week. I want good soil and a place to grow something
again!
Thank you again for all of your advice. You all
have helped me so many times!
Patricia Dickson
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