Augusta

I have lived here for 30 yrs and I should have moved when I got out of highschool, but I did’nt. I got married and had kids now we’re waiting for our youngest to graduate and we are out of here. Augusta is to racially divided. There is alot of potential with Augusta. But in the 30 yrs I’ve been here its really not changed except there is more places to shop and more places to eat and more places to buy cars. they really don’t have much to actually do. It might be good for a stop overnight on your way to somewhere else. But once I move I will never come back…

I have been living in Augusta for almost two years at Fort Gordon. The best thing I did for our car before our family came here was fix the air conditioner you are going to need it. If you have a child there are two places you can visit for some fun—Fort Discovery and Funsville. If you like shopping—there are three main places to shop—Augusta Mall, Deans Bridge Road/Washington Rd and Augusta Exchange—all the favorite big stores (Circuit City, Sams Club, Target, 2 Walmarts, JcPenney, Macy’s and Best Buy, etc). Fort Gordon is like living in the country I have seen foxes, coyotes, deer, squirrels and geese (geese groups stop by for a pit stop in fall and spring). Also lots of green spaces at Fort Gordon. The down side of living here—Atlanta and Columbia are three hours away so be sure you have a comfortable car for driving long distances. Also if you want to get anywhere you need to rent a car—do it in advance. Bus and taxi transportation is very unreliable here especially around the holidays. Also these last two years have been scary off post with in home robberies and robberies at businesses on Gordon hwy outside the Fort Gordon gate. Two hotels we stayed at when we first got here got robbed six months after we moved on post. Robberies seem to be at their highest from November to February. Also there were two kidnappings at two gas stations in this area. Otherwise, it is pretty laid back here. Easy to save money because there is little to do except occasional festivals held on by downtown Augusta, Lake Thurmond and Fort Gordon. Also if you are a foreigner the only place to work here is at fast food restaurants. I have a german friend that came here with job experience and not able to find a decent job except at a fast food place. The most beautiful place to visit here is J Strom Thurmond Lake it is so quiet.

Use to live here, not a bad place at all compared to other towns in Georgia.

I lived here.

My boyfriend lives here. Who wants to guess why I want to visit?

Gorgeous skies.

I lived here for three years (when I was in the Air Force). With the exception of the immediate downtown area, which is slowly revitalizing, there’s very little cultural activity in Augusta—which is sad, since real estate is cheap and the place is beautiful (the humidity, of course, is stifling).

Its greatest asset could be the fact that Savannah and Charleston are an easy drive away.

I grew up here, and it has a lot of potential. It was a great place to grow up, with the river and lakes and a lot of forest to play in. It’s not a small place and it’s pretty diverse and not overcrowded and not too expensive. But like someone said, there’s not much culture in Augusta. It’s a nice place to visit, a nice place to raise a family, as long as you can travel to other places. But it has a lot of potential. It’s very suburban for a city and it’s not as safe as it should be. But I’ve been living in CA for a year and there’s a lot of things that I miss about Augusta, I’d like to live there if I could change a few things.

seriously I thought the place sucked. till i came to college (ga southern university) in statesboro which sux. visited savanah which is like half the size of augusta and also well sux. macon, warner robins, valdosta, vidalia, roswell… suck. i’ve been there with friends. i started treavelling georgia and augusta still ranks no. 2

Not a bad place to grow up, all in all, but I also can’t imagine anyone wanting to go there instead of, say, Savannah or Charleston. Augusta may be just as historic as those cities, but it has no culture at all.