Posted: 9/25/2014 5:27:53 AM EDT
It would seem at some point, likely next year, we will be moving to Georgia, somewhere around the Atlanta area. My sister wants to have close access to the city but still be out and away from the city, while I'll be happy being as far out in the country as possible. Ideally we want a place with acreage but not ridiculously expensive. My personal goal is to have enough land to be able to hunt our own place. I grew up in the country here in Oklahoma where it wasn't very hard to find placed to hunt but I've since lived in OKC for the last 12 years or so and haven't been able to hunt a single time  . There's very little wooded land and landowners won't let people hunt their property so I'm looking forward to getting back to Georgia where clear water and trees are everywhere.
On the probable chance we don't end up being able to afford a place in the country with a decent number of acres, how hard is it to find places to hunt deer, hog, squirrels, rabbits etc? Are landowners as tight there as they are here? I'm disabled so I can't get around that well which limits where I can go from the beginning but I'm experienced in rifle and bow hunting so I am versatile and I follow very strict codes of ethics which means I'm not one of "those" people. I'm hoping that there will be much better opportunity for hunting around the Atlanta area than I've had here. I'm just curious what the odds are of someone to get into good deer and hog hunting around there if you don't have your own place? The environment is certainly better there, here it's mostly big expanses of of open prairie and trees are a luxury, I miss trees terribly! It's so hard on the rare occasion we travel to Atlanta to visit family and be around all the beautiful forest and clear water creeks, rivers and lakes just to fly back home to vast expanses of nothingness, red dirt and dirty water. It's just depressing...we gotta get back to Georgia! |
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somewhere around the Atlanta area. My sister wants to have close access to the city but still be out and away from the city, while I'll be happy being as far out in the country as possible. Ideally we want a place with acreage but not ridiculously expensive Can you quantify: -How close to city is acceptable for your sister? (time) -minimum acreage requirement to hunt? -approx price per acre (ie.. total land cost) I'm more familiar with the NE side of town. About an hour away (no traffic) you can get into some semi rural to rural counties. Land can be had for $3,500 -$5k/acre on the low end, depending on area. eta: If you are ok with being an hour from outskirts of ATL, your options from a hunting/ rural standpoint will be much better for obvious reasons, but Atlanta is pretty spread out too. Does it have to be ATL? or can it be another city in the state? Prices of land vary considerably as well as location of many hunting clubs, wma's and national forests. |
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Right now all the details are pretty fluid...we will definitely be moving to the Atlanta area because that's where we have family and where she grew up. Our mom is a real estate broker so she's promised to help us find as close to what we want when the time comes. We won't know how much money we have to work with until the time comes to put our current house on the market but I'm thinking it'll be somewhere around $150,000 -200,000 to spend but maybe more.
She and I are both sick of living in the city and having neighbors so close and constantly hearing banging stereos of cars going by and all that normal city crap...y'all know what I'm talking about. We both want to live out in the country but still close enough to the city that driving to work and such isn't an issue. She would prefer a bigger nicer house and less land while I would prefer more land and settle on a smaller house. We'll have to compromise when the time comes so I have no idea what we will end up with. Coming from central Oklahoma where tree's are a luxury we definitely want a place surrounded by trees. If I could get a 40 acre wooded property even, assuming it was adjoined to wooded property and held deer and such, I'd be tickled. Obviously more would be better but money is what it all comes down to. If we end up in the country but without the land I'll be at the mercy of not having hunting access again. Being disabled (I have a messed up back and arthritis in my spine) I don't have the ability to go trekking through public land like I could years ago, which is the main reason I was hoping to get our own land. I don't have the ability to get out a lot but I do want to at least try and continue to hunt and fish as much as I can, while I can. |
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Are you set on the Atlanta area? The reason I ask is because you may find it difficult to find property that fits your description of what you want, within your budget. And that's just the land without the house.
You should look south of Atlanta in the middle Georgia area. Around the Forsyth area would still only have you an hour away from the Atlanta perimeter and there you can find a nice house in a neighborhood (not a subdivision) and have plenty of places to find a place to get a hunting lease. |
| I guess I'll just wait until it's closer to time to move so I know how much money we'll have to work with. Fortunately having a parent in the real estate business there I know we'll get the best deal possible. As long as we don't end up having to listen to thumping stereos and that crap anymore and have trees, it'll be an improvement. I may have to hit you guys up for the occasional chance to hunt your place though....I will provide BBQ pulled pork and chocolate brownies in trade. |
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I guess I'll just wait until it's closer to time to move so I know how much money we'll have to work with. Fortunately having a parent in the real estate business there I know we'll get the best deal possible. As long as we don't end up having to listen to thumping stereos and that crap anymore and have trees, it'll be an improvement. I may have to hit you guys up for the occasional chance to hunt your place though....I will provide BBQ pulled pork and chocolate brownies in trade. Tell me more of these chocolate brownies..... Are pecans involved? |
| If I missed it, please forgive me, but where in Atlanta and what do YOU mean by Atlanta? ATL can refer to the actual city of Atlanta, everything inside the Perimeter (I285), or the Atlanta Metropolitan Area (29 counties). To add to the confusion, some businesses that are not in the city, have addresses in the city. CDC’s headquarters is in Decatur, but everyone/everything, including the mailing address says it is in Atlanta. Traffic is bad. If you lived on the Perimeter at 2:00 and you job was at 4:00 it might take you from 1 to 3 hours to get between them (with no major accidents). |
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I guess I'll just wait until it's closer to time to move so I know how much money we'll have to work with. Fortunately having a parent in the real estate business there I know we'll get the best deal possible. As long as we don't end up having to listen to thumping stereos and that crap anymore and have trees, it'll be an improvement. I may have to hit you guys up for the occasional chance to hunt your place though....I will provide BBQ pulled pork and chocolate brownies in trade. Tell me more of these chocolate brownies..... Are pecans involved? They can be. |
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If I missed it, please forgive me, but where in Atlanta and what do YOU mean by Atlanta? ATL can refer to the actual city of Atlanta, everything inside the Perimeter (I285), or the Atlanta Metropolitan Area (29 counties). To add to the confusion, some businesses that are not in the city, have addresses in the city. CDC’s headquarters is in Decatur, but everyone/everything, including the mailing address says it is in Atlanta. Traffic is bad. If you lived on the Perimeter at 2:00 and you job was at 4:00 it might take you from 1 to 3 hours to get between them (with no major accidents). I'm not a native Atlantan like my sister and mom but I've spent time there of course. When I say Atlanta, I mean that general area, nothing specific like inside the perimeter or the like. Mom wants us to live in specific areas that are "nice" (not Buckhead nice but nice) that are close to her place but I can't remember where her new place is. We want to be far enough away from neighbors that you can't see what they are doing and they can't see what you are doing. Until we get closer to time to move I've all but given up looking at property since it's not going to be the same next year anyway. |