We got out as soon as we could
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10/1/2008
We were actually looking forward to the move to Augusta, but living there completely changed our mind. The biggest complaint I have is the public school system. It is horrible! Yes there are a couple of magnet schools that apparently are highly rated, but because the remainder of the schools are so atrocious, there is a long waiting list to get into these magnet schools, believe me, we tried. Then you have all the disciplinary problems, major gang fights almost every week, and teachers that are so unqualified that they were probably rejected from Wal-Mart. TRhe curriculum was about 2 years behind what our kids were used to.. pathetic doesn't begin to describe it. Then the city itself is nothing spectacular. It's mostly nothing but suburban sprawl. You have the nicer suburbs on the westside and the ghetto suburbs on the east and southside. Augusta has a lot of ghetto areas.. about 2/3rds of the city is "ghetto". There are few things for families and children to do. There ios a shopping mall, and that's about it. The dopwntown is pretty run down. It seems like they are making an effort to clean it up, but we didn;t notice anything down there worth visiting on a regular basis. It doesn't seem safe at night, very little lighting, and not a lot of people. Augusta could be a nice city, but we got the impression that people there just don't care. As soon as a job offer became available elsewhere, we got out.
Barret | ,