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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
- Subject: Re: Athens, GA, and National Lab Angst
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.155625.24836@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:56:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.033402.11509@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (StMeechThePanatela) writes:
- >Well, I just got back to Oak Ridge, TN, from a job interview at
- >Athens, GA (Associate Research Scientist at UGA). I post this here inspired
- >by the National Lab Angst thread of a while back.
- >
- >There is a possibility that I may be offered said job, and I
- >am thus interested in checking out the environment there. I am curious
- >if there are any alt.angst readers who reside/have resided there who
- >might be willing to comment on Athens' survivability.
- >
- >My first impressions.....
- >Athens is moderately larger than Oak Ridge, population 50k versus 30k.
- >The downtown of Athens does not appear to be very large, but it does seem
- >to have a fair number of pubs, restaurants and clubs to go to. Oak Ridge
- >has no downtown. Athens is only 70 miles or so from Atlanta (which
- >I gather is a good place), and it takes (I'm told) more than an hour
- >to get to most places in Atlanta (and in fact it took me almost 1.5 hours
- >to get from Athens to I-75 in Atlanta today). Oak Ridge is 20 miles or
- >so from Knoxville. Knoxville has a population of 200k or so, and in my
- >observation nothing much happens there (apparently unlike Atlanta).
- >
- >So the first impression is that Athens seems like it might be a
- >good place to hang around for a short time, but its distance from Atlanta
- >makes it seem like in the long term I might get board of it, with
- >insufficient contact with the outside world.
- >
- >The big question is are there any readers of a.a. who might shed some
- >light on the long term survivability of Athens, GA? Any advice that will
- >keep me from leaping from one frying pan into another would be much
- >appreciated.
- >
- > Meech
-
-
- Athens is very "survivable". Atlanta takes only an hour to get to. Most
- people don't see a need to go. The restaurants and music scene in Athens
- beat the hell out of the restaurant and music scene of many larger cities.
-