Check it out on ajc.com

By David

April 11, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

I may not know every inch of gwinnett but I know we travel 15 mph to get there. It is the pedal on your Right people. GO!!!

By Kelly Herndon

April 14, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Thank you for a great resource! As director of recruitment and retention for Gwinnett County Public Schools, I am always in search of links that will be of interest to candidates. Additional great sources are www.wikigwinnett.com and www.gcvb.com.

My only suggestion is that you continue to add diversity to this site, from the awe inspiring Hindu Temple in Lilburn to a leader photo such as the one in today’s paper of Reverend Shields consoling the young man. The candidates applying to GCPS are outstanding (high GPAs/impressive resumes�). Candidates come from across the nation (new hires represented 27 states in 2007). The reasons most often sited for applying to Gwinnett are reputation of the county, proximity to Atlanta, and a desire to find a strong school system with nice mix of urban/suburban diversity. Gwinnett County is amazing in that so many groups live in relative harmony, and frankly always have. History buffs know that school integration occurred peacefully in Gwinnett, no surprise that Gwinnett citizens as a group continue to embrace new cultures today. For all the problems we perceive as Georgia natives, it only takes a bit of travel to see that most areas of the country are grappling with the same issues of traffic/growth/etc, but without the financial backing, stable leadership from the both parties, and community support that is the hallmark of Gwinnett citizens. In my opinion, the one feature all Gwinnnetians seem to possess, whatever the background, is a worker bee drive - and that keeps a community strong and attractive to newcomers.

Kelly Herndon

By Steve Miles

May 1, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Enough of this diversity cr@p. I am sick of it like global warming and going green.

Let’s stick to important topics like pets gawking in the bathroom.

By Lightatendoftunnel

May 1, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

Can we please…get our flippin’ street lights synchronized……does DOT even know what that means?! It means….green on this one…green on the light before it…not red for 10 minutes and then the light right in front is red for another 10 minutes….from Harbins Rd crossing 316 to 316 crossing Riverside Pkwy 20 minute drive! ridiculous!

By Just so you know

May 8, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Kelly …don’t know what “wonderland” you live in, but it isn’t the Gwinnett County that I know and live in… .dream on!!! While some very few aspects of diversity may be postive, the overwhelming impact has done nothing for this county!

By LauraB

May 14, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

I know Gwinnett very well, or at least I used to. With so many businesses going up, advertising in languages I don’t know, I’m beginning to feel like a visitor in my own home.

By World's Most Infamous! ...TRAFFIC?

May 25, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

WARNING!: Atlanta is the next Los Angeles and Gwinnett is quickly becoming the East Coast’s answer to Orange County, California! Gwinnett’s population will reach 1 million sometime in the next decade and will be one of the top five diverse counties in the nation, meaning every high school in the county will look like Meadowcreek does now by 2020! If California-style traffic and diversity ain’t for you, then you’d better start making your way for the exits now (Barrow, Dawson, Lumpkin, Jackson Counties, etc.), otherwise, better start learning spanish because you’re going to need it, bad!

By Bobby Guest

May 29, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this

I don’t know where I’m at in Norcross anymore. Things have changed very much since 1962. When I visit it’s hard to find my way around anymore. I lived on Buford Highway, across from the Buford HIghway Baptist Church in a development, a name I can’t remember.

By Brenda

June 1, 2008 10:35 PM | Link to this

I am a native to Gwinnett County and I am ready to move away. It really makes me sick to see all the litter in our streets. Come on people the world is not your trash can. stop throwing little from your car take it home and throw it in your trash can and for god sakes people if its in front of you house pick it up. you lazy bunch dirty scums. Tired of picking up for you litter bugs.

By Ron

June 2, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Gwinnett County has been an overall success because of conservative leadership over the past 30 years. Gwinnett will be the next Dekalb if certain people are elected.

By stalepie

June 3, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

The design of suburbs is such that housing is isolated from the workplace, and people drive a long way to go to work. But supposedly we are running out of oil and gas prices will only get more expensive. We should try to intergrate our houses and apartments more closely to businesses and encourage people to live closer to their place of work, and closer to their friends and family. Maybe there could even be a new type of living quarter that is situated inside a corporate office park or inside the business offices themselves. The people that work at the Mall of Georgia, for instance? They could convert one of the department stores into an apartment complex for the workers.

By B

June 4, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

It is sad to see that a once great, safe county has turned into a cesspool filled with gangs, crime, conjestion, and uncaring transplants that brought it all. Thats why most of us that lived there before the explosion moved to other counties. Let Gwinnett rot in its own filth.

By clt to atl

June 11, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

All- Moving to ATL from CLT in the coming months. Would you recommend Gwinnett Cty? We are looking in Suwanee, Duluth etc. I work from home, married, in early 30s and want to be in a younger couples/parents area with plenty to do.

Thanks for advice.

By cc

June 12, 2008 1:22 AM | Link to this

I would just like to add to Brenda’s little note. I am so with you on this matter! Everyday I pull out of my drive only to find garbage in my front yard and nothing makes me madder. I try hard to keep my yard looking nice and it is hard with also trying not to use a lot of water for it. And, you are paying your garbage service … use it!

By John

June 12, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Celebrating diversity rather than unity is the core problem not only of Gwinnett County, but our entire nation. It is a sure way to downfall by promoting multiple languages and cultures rather than promoting a unified culture and language like most other nations do.

By GB

June 17, 2008 10:18 PM | Link to this

Gwinnett is crime, gangs, adversity and diversity … over built with strip shopping … no real zoning planning … developers waste land … in other words a REAL mess!!! Schools overcrowded. No continuity, no sense of direction by leaders. We’re just barely hanging on. Real sad!

By Doog

June 24, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

I’ve been here for 40 yrs. and I tend to agree with B….time to move.

By Donc

July 12, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this

Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, would anyone like to hear another joke?

By D. Lorraine

July 20, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

I work in Gwinnett County…worst 9 hours of my life, each day. Thats including the drive in and out of it. I breathe easy as soon as I cross the river, thank God for Alpharetta.

By Susan

July 21, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

I moved to Gwinnett in 1991. I would tell people where I lived and no one knew where Gwinnett was. Now I am ashamed to tell people I live in Gwinnett—what once was a pleasant place to live has now become a gang infested, welfare/food stamp city that is only getting worse. I’M OUT OF HERE

By 76tornados

July 24, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

I lived in Gwinnett for 30 years. I remember Pleasant Hill Rd. when all there was was a truck stop at 85. No mall, no shooting. I thank every day that I moved northeast up 85. What a wasteland.

By JLL

July 24, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

I am sad too. It was so nice and now it’s unsafe and dirty, 6 or 8 trucks in almost every drive, 10 or 15 people in each of these homes and trash stacked up to the gutters. I thought the gangs were getting cleaned up but just one murder, home invasion, robbery after another and sadly Norcross is the big loser!

By Sara

July 25, 2008 4:36 AM | Link to this

The Hindu Temple in Lilburn is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. What a horrid eyesore.

By Ajamu

July 28, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

We moved here in ‘02 from Brooklyn, N.Y. My daughter was born at Gwinnettt Medical a month later. Gwinnett county is similar to Suffolk County, Long Island in N.Y. but bigger geographically. With the large Hispanic population it is very much like Orange County CA. as well. Very nice neighborhoods compared to the inner city but with a potentially very serious drug, gang, and gun problem on the horizon if the illegal Hispanics do not leave in large numbers soon. Same thing with the educational system . Hispanics drop out of schools at a very high rate and the children of the illegals will swell the jail through gang activity. It is very important to target the current middle school and highschool age children for at least the next 10 years to help overcome the potential for a large number of undereducated, barely fluent in English criminals ‘reppin Duluth and Norcross with yellow and red colors. Watch the graffiti around the county and you can see it getting worse. Thanks for giving the young people something to do, somewhere to go by building the parks on Bethesda School Rd. (Sweetwater Park) and Club Drive. Gwinnett will be allright as long as people fluent in English continue to move here.

By B

July 31, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

To: Ajamu & Susan, you transplants are the problem! GET IT!

By Mona

August 7, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

To “clt to atl”, I would highly recommend Gwinnett IF you love traffic, congestion, illegals, gangs/graffiti, more illegals and don’t want your children to have a very good education.
Most of the younger children do not speak English because their parents are too lazy/stupid/don’t care to. Why should they speak the language when they can have their 8yr old speak for them?

Todays paper said it all…..”Gwinnett’s minorities surge toward majority”…”demographics shifted dramaticlly from 2000-2007”. In 1990, Gwinnett’s white population was about 90%. In 2001 there were 43 Hispanic voters compared to 12,289 this month. DOES THIS TELL YOU ANYTHING?? I moved from Gwinnett in 2004 after living there since 1977. It was a BLESSING to get out when I did. My neighborhood had gone from upper-middle class to section 8 housing. Does that tell you anything about Gwinnett? It isn’t any better in Suwanee or Duluth than in Norcross where I lived. The KUDZU creeps along as the illegals have our new citizens on our money and we have to continue supporting them. Their children can babies when they are still children, because they don’t believe in birth control. Check out some of the health departments. IF you’re an American, chances are you’ll be the only one in there other than the employees. They have NO respect for Americans or the American way of life. They just want what we have…at ANY cost.

I saw some of the problems with Gwinnett start with the Olympics in ‘96 and start escalating in 2000. By 2003, I made the decision I had to get out. I had seen the schools in my area go to almost the entire student body being on the free lunch program….more freebies. Not to mention how the County did compared to other counties within the State which didn’t do so hot either. How can “Bobby Jr” get an education when “Ms Johnson” has to stop the class to help “Juan, Pedro or Maria” because they don’t understand English? And Gwinnett at one time had a great school system. I thought I knew Gwinnett but when I realized it was “going down the ‘tubes”“, I decided I needed to get out.

Sorry Gwinnett, but I know Gwinnett well enough that I now live in Cherokee County and love it. English is spoken here. The “foreigners” are kept under control and have RESPECT for the law enforcement. The entire county is kept up and kept up well by our officials.

Gwinnett has accomplished one thing and that is being the example for other counties NOT to follow but to learn from by their mistakes.

By Donc

August 12, 2008 10:50 PM | Link to this

I know it well enough to know that I want out of it just for my childs sake.

By Mona

August 15, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Donc, If you want your child to have AN education, I would defititely move…

By Michelle

September 1, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

I moved here from South Florida 2 years ago. I think Gwinnette is a nice place to live. If people just work together to help better thier communities and stop running from life, things will get better. The only problem I see here is that there are lots of people here thats not tolerant of someone different that them and alot of prejudices. The South has not changed much. So Sad.

By heather

September 27, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this

hate living in Snellville and can’t wait to leave when I do will not tell anyone where I moved from South Gwinnett is a cesspool and so is Snellville

By Steve Lloyd

September 30, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

I agree with the e-mails that talk about how Gwinnett was 35 years ago. It was such a nice place to live. What it has becme now is astonishing. Gangs ILLEGAL immigrants who come here and do nothing but multiply and expect those of us who work hard and live within their means to take care of those who do not. Gwinnett/GA is my “home”, but if I had the necessary means, I would be out of here before you could say maheco

By ginuwine_450

October 6, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

To all the people talking bad about Gwinnett. It’s all relative… Gwinnett has it’s good parts and it’s bad parts just like any other large growing county. To a lot of “transplants” as we’re called may have came from area’s 10 times worst than Gwinnett County and this may be the best we can do, until you can afford to move on. I am happy with Gwinnett County and I am glad to be a resident. I only negative thing that I have noticed is poor development planning… building too much and not addressing the roads…

By Marie

October 9, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

I have only lived here for a year and hate every minute of it. I came back home from the sant Cruz Mountains-big mistake, so now I am fixing up my house and putting it on the market at the first of the year- Any one want a house in Snellville on Oak Road- GREAT LOCATION.

By Rudy

October 13, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

I visited the Wal-Mart on Pleasant Hill Rd. in Duluth yesterday to pick up some pop. While in the check out line I over heard another customer say “Geez do I have to have a passport to get back home? Look at all the (derogatory word for those of Hispanic heritage) in here!” That comment nearly broke my heart. As a long standing resident of Gwinnett County, and a caucasian man, I have truly enjoyed the rich diversity that has come to our county over the past 25 years. The wonderful restaurants that offer excellent ethnic cuisine, the service oriented entreprenuers that take pride in performing their services and offering competitive prices, and the freindly nature of most people makes Gwinnett a wonderful place to live. To my brothers and sisters of Hispanic, Asian, Middle eastern, and European heritage … THANK YOU for blessing Gwinnett with your presence, your customs, and your delicious food! Welcome!

By ralph

October 14, 2008 4:22 AM | Link to this

i lived in gwinnette for 5 years moved back to oxford mass in the country its the laid back life life is good in mass

By GAPeach

October 20, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

As a life-long Gwinnettian, never minded the growth until about ten-fifteen years ago. There comes a time when progress is no longer good and we’ve reached that point. When neighborhoods start going down, stores closing and moving, strip malls vacated and thoroughfares like 78 begin to look trashy w/used car lots and homemade business signs painted bright colors then life isn’t good anymore. True enough this might be a better life for some, but not for everybody.

By Ed

November 18, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

I am forced to work in Gwinnett County. It is the most disgusting place I have ever been. Bank employees, fast food employees, everyone is rude and nasty. The streets are full of trash. The best example of this is the Norcross post office. I was in there the other day and the employees were arguing with each other while 15 people stood in line. I pray when the economic crisis is over, I can change jobs and hopefully NEVER return to Gwinnett county for any reason.

By ED

November 18, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Rudy. You are full of pop..i mean poop

By copdawg

November 19, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

i moved to Gwinnett in 1970, lived there till 92. always lived in the hog mountain area. never experienced what i am reading about in these posts. what a shame but am from georgia, metro atlanta, but no way i would move back, high taxes, car fees etc etc. not going to tell you where i live now cause i want it to stay the way Gwinnett used to be.

By BRIAN

November 26, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

PLEASE MOVE. TO ALL THOSE WHO DO NOT LIKE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LOOK LIKE THEM OR TALK LIKE THEM. WHEN YOU MOVE ONLY TRUE AMERICANS WIILL BE LEFT.

By BRIAN

November 26, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

ED you are a true american. KEEP THOSE EMAILS COMING

By T

December 1, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this

I think Rudy is the only one in this room who can speak on education. Everybody else needs to go back to grammar school and learn to write. Why do you condemn the Hispanics about their education when it’s obvious you DON’T have yours. You sound like the Whites 30 years ago speaking about the Blacks. History repeats itself and so does IGNORANCE. I live, own my own business, and respect most of the residents of this great county. By the way, wasn’t Suwanee voted as one of the TOP 10 cities to live in ? In the country? Wow, sorry you moved….. or moving…. Time to take out the rest of the trash. Bye, Bye, now…

By Garcia

December 19, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Wow! I havnt seen so much racism ever! I thought the south has changed and beame peacefull…Sike!!!!! I know that Gwinnett isnt the safest place to live and deffinitly not the cleanist! But come on do yall have to talk crap about the hispanic population? Callin’ us ILLEGAL, lazy, non-enlish speaking…bla bla bla! Every…or the majority of white people are hypocrites! Put on fake smiles, nice sweat voices bull….yall thought Hitler was an evil person, which he is, but you people are the same! By the way I am a proud Mexican-American, 19yrs old, and a college student!

By KP

December 22, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

Ya’ll make me effing sick to my stomach. Quit your b***! Don’t like it? Get out!! Of course things have changed dramatically since you’ve been here what?! 20-30 yrs+ What do you expect?? So, instead of being a part of the effort and taking pride in the city you live in, go move up 400 or 985 and start turning those areas into cesspools. Hey, if you move now you’ll have at least a couple years to fly your rebel flag and feel comfortable with your white, english-speaking neighbors before the “transplants” start moving there too!!!

UGH! I’m totally disgusted….

By Mulch

January 7, 2009 3:27 PM | Link to this

Wow-I don’t know what everyone is so angry about. I moved to Gwinnett 3 years ago after spending many years in Cobb, Dekalb, and Fulton counties. And I’m perfectly content. There’s traffic EVERYWHERE, there’s crime EVERYWHERE, there are gangs EVERYWHERE. These are not Gwinnett problems-these are American problems. I agree with KP-don’t be part of the problem. If you are unhappy, I wish you luck in finding the Utopias of 20-30 years ago. I fear they are gone.

By Debra Comer

January 8, 2009 9:59 AM | Link to this

I moved to Lilburn in Gwinnett County at the age of 14 with my parents as part of the “white flight” out of Atlanta back in the late 1960s. After living in Atlanta, I initially thought it was the back of beyond but eventually came to love the wide-open spaces and slower pace. My folks, however, soon began to complain about the distances they had to travel to work, shop and dine out. I remember that they got very excited when new stores and restaurants came to the area in the early 1970s. Me, I remember thinking at the time “be careful wht you wish for.” I left Gwinnett County as soon as I graduated and eventually moved out of the US entirely, but a few years ago, on a whim while driving north on I-85 on a visit to Georgia, I decided to detour and show my two sons where I had gone to high school. Bad move: it took the better part of an hour to go the short distance from the Beaver Ruin Road exit to Berkmar High School on Pleasant Hill Road, and the same amount of time to get back to the expressway. Stores and fast food restaurants everywhere, and nothing to differentiate it from thousands of other similar communities all across America. So, so sad.

By New to Gwinnett

January 9, 2009 11:49 AM | Link to this

I just moved to Gwinnett Thanksgiving weekend. Right off Hwy 78 and West Park Place. My neighborhood is very quiet and I rarely see anyone outside. I did notice there are a lot of “Indian” residents in the subdivision which is not a problem for me. I’ve always been told that Gwinnett had the best school system and that they were so much better than Dekalb. I have lived in Dekalb since 1988. My 13 year old is an A-B student. I hope to enjoy the rest of my days where I am now because again I really like the neighborhood.