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Is Decatur GA nice? I see a lot of nice new homes going for close to and over 500K. Is that expensive for a GA home?
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there are two parts of Decatur.
The white part of Decatur is nice as hell & expensive.
the other part is where 21 Savage, Gucci & OJ from, and it’s the exact opposite of the white part of Decatur.
500K for a crib is expensive in Georgia to me. I’m from Clayton County & most of the homes in my own stomping grounds are 75K-150K.
500K will put you in a nice safe spot.
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How bad are the areas that 21 savage and Gucci are from and are there nice new homes being built there?
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it’s not a war zone like they portray it to be, but it’s ghetto as fukk. If you go looking for trouble you’ll find it. You’ll hear about robberies, car theft, homicides & other crimes a few times a month but it ain’t on some Chicago shyt.
WSB just did a story on crime out there
Crime plummets in DeKalb County -- but not due to pandemic
I doubt there are any nice houses being built, as that part is filled with old houses. The white part of Decatur has new homes probably.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Decatur_GA/schools/Towers-High-School-0718581961
I just put in a search for homes near Towers HS, which is in Decatur. Those types of homes and apartment complexes is what you’ll see.
The nice homes on that side of town are mostly due to gentrification. East Atlanta, Kirkwood (aka Lil Mexico, Scooter & Future hood), & East Lake used to be some of the most dangerous places in the city, but it’s being cleaned up.
then you have Brookhaven & Druid Hills with nice homes, but they have historically been white neighborhoods. Lot of money out there.
Lithonia & Ellenwood are the black parts of the eastside with a few nice homes. I wouldn’t be surprised if you find subdivisions in those two cities with homes in the 500K range. There are a few mansions out there as well owned by black folks..I think T.O. used to stay in Lithonia.
But outside of that, Lithonia is ghetto & Ellenwood is slick country.
This is from the Lithonia Wiki page
“The unincorporated communities located outside the city limits make up almost 75% of the population estimated at over 15,000 inhabitants. Neighborhoods are broken into two ZIP codes: 30058 which includes the City proper, and communities directly outside the city limit, and 30038 located south of Interstate 20 which includes some of the most affluent neighborhoods in DeKalb County.”
Lithonia, Georgia - Wikipedia
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ahhh didn’t know Lithonia was ghetto I was taught it was all around nice
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nah it’s actually has the highest crime rate in Dekalb, but I think that’s because it’s so big.
The nice parts of Lithonia has 500K houses and mansions, but those are small pockets, like certain streets and subdivisions.
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Speaking of Decatur
ATL Classic right there
I wonder if any other cities have hood ass suburbs like we do
ATL Classic right thereI wonder if any other cities have hood ass suburbs like we do
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gone get you a crib in Mableton by the silver comet trail. That’s where I’m at now and life is good.
I moved from Riverdale near old national.
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gone get you a crib in Mableton by the silver comet trail. That’s where I’m at now and life is good.
I moved from Riverdale near old national.
That’s the whole other side of the city lol.
@SourPowerStraws if you have a family tho, listen to this man. Mabelton & Cobb County is low key
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If you going to look into the Mableton area I would also look into the Camp Creek Parkway and Cascade area. It would be good to have an Atlanta area code for voting. Whatever happens to Atlanta trickles down to the surrounding suburbs.
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Speaking of Decatur
I wonder if any other cities have hood ass suburbs like we do
I don't think so. I assume most cities have a majority of their hoods in the city. At least that's the way it was in DC, with the hoods in PG County being as bad as the S.W.A.T.S. That's what transplants from the DMV use to say in the 90's. I don't think that's the case anymore, especially when you look at WSB-TV Channel 2 News. If I'd done that, I probably would have never moved to the ATL.
Is Big Daddy’s Kitchen black owned? I know it’s a about 5 of them in the city; also the Q soul food joints and Yasins fish spot on Abernathy is dope too
30033 and 30030 are North Decatur/City of Decatur which is really expensive, but the area is nice and it has a top 3 school district in the state.
30032 is "loud Decatur" where trappers occasionally flex. Its Zone 6 adjacent (15 minutes from downtown), lots of petty crime and junkies going ham at the gas stations, heavily policed (pulled over a couple times for no reason) and schools suck.
30034 and 30035 is working class Decatur, not as dangerous or dilapidated as 30032, but schools still suck.
Unless you can afford North Decatur, I'd rather live in a nice metro suburb like others in the thread have mentioned.