Quote Originally Posted by t3ggr
I am in the market to purchase a house and there are two areas I am looking at.

I want to move to Kennesaw, but I am not sure about the traffic situation in the morning seeing as though I work in Smyrna.

I don't mind some traffic, but is it as terrible as everyone makes it out to be?

The house I am looking at is a few minutes from the Chastain exit.

Even though I would love to live in that particular area, and use it to my advantage for resale, the traffic situation will be a make or break.
I lived in Kennesaw for a year and a half and drove to Windy Hill for the last six months of it. I can tell you this: I-75 is terrible if you're travelling any time AFTER 7:30. 41 is terrible at the North 120 loop and the Canton Highway intersection. In between those two spots and after the North 120 Loop, it's OK. You're moving faster than traffic is on I-75, I promise you that. However if you're trying to get from Kennesaw to Windy Hill area by 9am or so, you have two options: Leave at 7:30, buy/pack a breakfast and eat somewhere until you need to be at work, or leave at 8:00 and be barely on time (Assuming no accidents on 41 or I-75). I essentially drove the path you're talking about every day in my Audi, 13 miles each way. Spent just under two gallons of gas every day when gas was $3+. I spent a RIDICULOUS amount of money on Gas. I mean it was to the point where if I went into work for just 1 hour I barely made enough to pay for the gas I spent getting there. Working five to six days a week at 35-40 hours you can imagine how much that sucked. As soon as I switched Jobs and moved back over to the Cobb/Fulton border I have a ton more money in my gas budget. Traffic in that area isn't TERRIBLE if you spend some time to learn where the bad spots are (Barret & 41 is an absolute NO. EVER. Learn to love Bells Ferry and the shorter trips it brings). Barret Lakes and Barret is SUPER bad in the morning. Barret AND Chastain around I-75 and 575 in the mornings are TERRIBLE, learn to use the back roads behind KSU and the north end of Busbee.

In short, Traffic is pretty bad over there, and ESPECIALLY at this time of the year, traffic is terrible because of the mall/best buy and all that. Beautiful place to live though.

And in all seriousness, there is next to no traffic if you leave before 7am, and it's moderate if you're leaving around 7:30. If you're leaving at 8 though, forget it.