Hello Viktoria!
I saw your post earlier today, and just wanted to respond to it while I had a chance to do so! I'm actually also relocating to ATL area in as little as 3 days, actually! I just wanted to share with my views on some of the areas I got to visit during my numorous trips there over last year or so. I've only been driven around for the most part, but know people who live in Norcross, as well as, in Duluth area. The people I know are russian, but as someone mentioned in the above reply to your post, in ATL area, all the russian people are spread out, much more so then from where I have lived for the past 18 years.
In any case, from the two above locations I really like Duluth! It is in the Gwinett county, and Norcross is actually right next to it. It is full of things to do, or at least in my opinion...has a bunch of cool stores and from what I understand conviniently located. Anyhow, that's where I'm moving to and plan on staying. It would be cool to have some russian neighbors and russian friendly american people too! So, if you want you can contact me via private message through this forum for the details.
The place I'll be living is nice, I really like it. For a big city that ATL is, and how nurvous I was about it's size in comparisson to where I have lived for all these years...where everything is never farther than 25 minutes in any direction pretty much, I think it's pretty conviniently located. From what I understand from the people I communicate with that live in ATL area and whome I have spoken to this was the idea that I came to. When I'm Duluth, I don't even feel that it's part of a huge city, that is located very near by... Maybe I'm going to be suprised in a negative way when I get there, but that was the idea that I got from my trips.
Also, the traffic is horrendous, and can keep you on the highway standing still pretty much for hours on a distance of a couple of miles you need to drive to finaly get where you are going. So, from that prespective, you should definitely most of all consider where you will work, and how you'll need to get there and of course the safety record of any area that you'll be considering of settling in, but that you know your-self. If you'll need to get to work by car, you definitely need to look for something near by work. You'll find Russian people eventually at events and even this forum! People from the forum that I met so far, are amazingly nice and willing to help out.
So, yes, please contact me, and I'll give you the deatails, and may be it will work out for us to be neighbors! :-)
Good luck!
Irina
