Re: Boating in GA
I lived just south of Lake Lanier, north of Lawrenceville for 10 years. Lake Lanier is about 43,000 acres and it's a magnificent lake when at or near full pool. Unfortunately, the lake has been as much as 12' low in recent years due to the City of Atlanta sucking drinking water out and numerous years of droughts.
Lake Lanier is one of the U.S. Government's busiest facilities, and that includes National Parks. It's great weekdays, however, and it's also a very good fishing lake. With the mountains to the north, it's a beautiful place with incredible parks, golf courses, a water park, campgrounds and houses.
Atlanta has many lakes within striking distance, some of which are mentioned above.
Allatoona is northwest of Marietta, and it's a relatively small lake (compared to Lanier). It's a little more stable in water height.
Lanier is northeast of Atlanta, in the Gainesille area. Buford is to the east and Cumming is to the west. Cumming is the preferred place to live out of those three towns.
Lake Burton is about 90 minutes northeast of Atlanta, west of Clayton, GA. It's where the rich hang out in Summer in their palatial mansions.
Lake Oconee is south of the interstate about an hour east of Atlanta going toward Augusta, and it's another pretty fancy place.
Lake Sinclair is south of Lake Oconee.
You will find Lake Hartwell about 60 miles from Buford, GA over on the South Carolina state line. It's another beautiful place with very large mountains to the north.
Up on the North Carolina state line, you'll find Blue Ridge Lake, Lake Nottley and Chatugue Lake. Chatuge is my favorite with Hiwassee, GA in the middle of the lake.
And when the Georgia lakes are low on water, Chickamauga Lake on the Tennessee River is 2 hours north and an absolutely magnificent fishing lake. And it's right in the middle of town.
And as you can tell, the Atlanta area is well blessed with recreational boating. You'll never lack for a place to go.
If you're moving to Atlanta, you'll need to be very careful where you move. My advice would be to live as close to your wife's work as you can afford because of Los Angeles type traffic problems.
We lived in a beautiful neighborhood, and sold out at the top of the market. House prices have since dropped like a rock in our neighborhood of 4000 square foot houses. Housing in this city is very cheap, but you must be very careful to move somewhere that is socially up and coming, not deteriorating and dropping in price.
