Johns Creek, Georgia

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What's it like to live in Johns Creek?

BedFantastic7691
1y ago
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I live in Johns Creek which is nice but doesn’t really feel like a city - still has the feel of the area ‘in between’ actual towns with no main street or city center. Schools are good but community seems to revolve around neighborhoods or at least in clusters around the neighborhood parks (Newtown, Ocee, Shakerag, etc). Peachtree Corners, Norcross and Buford are all worth a look. As are the central areas of Roswell and Alpharetta which have newer developments of live-work-play type and are currently very trendy. The downtown areas of Norcross and Buford are small compared to Decatur but have more history (than Roswell & Alpharetta’s newly built areas) are quaint, while still vibrant and also walkable. Peachtree Corners has a walkable area and maybe more diversity than Johns Creek (but not sure this is accurate). PTC’s area is centered around a cluster of shopping areas w restaurants, a central park, movie theater etc but it seems to be a nice and well attended gathering spot and more laid back/natural flow than Roswell/Alpharetta. None of these offer easy commute via MARTA unfortunately. MARTA only extends north to Sandy Springs/Dunwoody which are the old suburbs of Atlanta - still not walkable, good diversity I imagine, schools are going to be hit/miss with most wanting private school by middle/high school. Unfortunately, Atlanta is not a walkable city but you will find small cluster of neighborhoods that have walkable areas. I would start with an area that works for your commute, schooling needs and budget then narrow it down from there. All of north metro exists because it is sweet spot of kind of within commute tolerance (getting longer and longer though), schools are reliable & safe enough not to require you pay for private school and houses are more affordable than closer to the city. Everything else is here to cater to families.

windycityfan7
1y ago
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I don’t know much about Decatur, but I can tell you all about Johns Creek- there isn’t a single thing about it that is walkable, transit oriented and I wouldn’t file it under “fun” either. It’s pretty much a collection of subdivisions tailored for families to live in harmony, raise children and that’s about it. Nightlife is nonexistent (unless you consider restaurants your definition of fun), but you do have surrounding hubs of fun like downtown Alpharetta, Avalon, Halcyon, with Roswell also nearby.

Johns Creek is a bedroom community in all its essence. It’s super safe, very peaceful and multicultural.

All that said, Alpharetta checks more closely your boxes. While it doesn’t have a MARTA station, it does have “quicker” access to 400 and the Mansell bus that runs to North Springs Station.

Anonymous
9mo ago
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I also live in Johns Creek and have the same opinion. Alpharetta and Johns Creek are pretty similar in many respects.

Maybe one difference is that if you commute into the city, Alpharetta is generally closer to GA 400 (built to interstate highway standards), where Johns Creek is generally closer to GA 141 (divided highway) - I commute to midtown most days and think 400 is better than 141, but that’s possibly a “grass is greener” situation tbh.

If national accolades are important to you, Johns Creek has lots of them. Best suburb, safest city, etc. I’ve never understood how it wasn’t a tie with Alpharetta - again, the cities are super similar and used to more or less be one and the same, as noted by another respondent above.

You really can’t go wrong either way. They’re both great places to live.

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