A Peace of Quiet
I hope you had a happy and safe Independence Day holiday.
Like most Americans, it's now time for me to go back to the day-to-day routine of work, commute, e-mail, etc.
Mary and I spent our holiday at her family's 100-acre farm just north of Rome, GA. It is best described as being conveniently located in the middle of nowhere. You will find a lot of beautiful mountains, farms, and fields, but here are some of the things you won't find there:
- Cell Phones
- Beepers
- E-mail
- Web
- Subdivisions
- Strip Malls
- Traffic
The best thing you find there is "a piece of quiet", the way it was meant to be.
At the rate that Metro Atlanta and North Georgia have been growing, it is becoming harder and harder each day to find places where you can find that "piece of quiet", so we feel really blessed to have a place where we can go and get away from everyone and everything.
You may wonder exactly where it is, but I'm not gonna tell. I'm afraid that if the greedy-grabbing developers ever discover it, then they'll be doing just like they've done, and continue to do, all the way up GA 400 into Dawsonville and Dahlonega... build, build, and build until they have turned every farm, field, and mountainside into subdivisions, strip malls, and heaven knows what else. Ironically, people are moving up there to "get away from it all", but in the process, they're bringing it with them.
Hopefully, not all of North Georgia will become suburbs of Atlanta, the latest addition to the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistcal Area (MSA) being Dawson County. (Will Lumpkin County be next? Wait for the end of the 2010 Census to find out.)
For now, Mary and I still have the farm where we can get a really big "piece of quiet" whenever we need to get away from the Atlanta ratrace. Thank goodness no one's discovered it yet, and if we have anything to do with it, then no one else will.
Thanks for visiting and please come back again.
Like most Americans, it's now time for me to go back to the day-to-day routine of work, commute, e-mail, etc.
Mary and I spent our holiday at her family's 100-acre farm just north of Rome, GA. It is best described as being conveniently located in the middle of nowhere. You will find a lot of beautiful mountains, farms, and fields, but here are some of the things you won't find there:
- Cell Phones
- Beepers
- Web
- Subdivisions
- Strip Malls
- Traffic
The best thing you find there is "a piece of quiet", the way it was meant to be.
At the rate that Metro Atlanta and North Georgia have been growing, it is becoming harder and harder each day to find places where you can find that "piece of quiet", so we feel really blessed to have a place where we can go and get away from everyone and everything.
You may wonder exactly where it is, but I'm not gonna tell. I'm afraid that if the greedy-grabbing developers ever discover it, then they'll be doing just like they've done, and continue to do, all the way up GA 400 into Dawsonville and Dahlonega... build, build, and build until they have turned every farm, field, and mountainside into subdivisions, strip malls, and heaven knows what else. Ironically, people are moving up there to "get away from it all", but in the process, they're bringing it with them.
Hopefully, not all of North Georgia will become suburbs of Atlanta, the latest addition to the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistcal Area (MSA) being Dawson County. (Will Lumpkin County be next? Wait for the end of the 2010 Census to find out.)
For now, Mary and I still have the farm where we can get a really big "piece of quiet" whenever we need to get away from the Atlanta ratrace. Thank goodness no one's discovered it yet, and if we have anything to do with it, then no one else will.
Thanks for visiting and please come back again.
posted by Georgia Road Geek at
5:53 AM
