out of curiosity I just tried doing a Google search on the phrase 'sober living Atlanta" and got lots of useful looking links. This one, near the top of the Google search, shows a list of 23 facilities:

 http://soberliving.interventionamerica.org/citydirectory.cfm?State=GA&city=Atlanta

 

 

I would have liked sober housing help. In fact the first time I tried to get sober I landed I an excellent home that met every need, even supplied lunch to take to work. The only rules was drink and you are out. So I was out after only a few weeks.

But it does sound good, living with other people who share the same goals, except they don't. We had one in my home town. The following was a repeating pattern. A new intake arrives, all on cloud 9. They go to meetings for the first week. Then they decide that as they are all "recovering alcoholics, they can have their own meetings and not bother with AA. Then the house manager would strongly suggest they got back in line, which kicked off a whole lot of resentments usually resulting in a campaign to have the manger dismissed. Then they leave and a new intake arrives. Rinse and repeat.

Living with anyone in early recovery is going to be difficult, more so when the other people in the house are also in recovery. That's because we progress at different rates, so pretty soon there is tension, ones not doing it right, someone else is over zealous, someone doesn't do their share of the housework, someone else feels picked on. It is the nature of the disease that everyone will be incredibly selfish or self serving. People like that don't make the best room mates.

I found the best thing (not by choice) was to be living on my own. I didn't have to answer to anyone, and there was no one to blame. I could go to meetings whenever I felt like it. If dinner wasn't cooked or there was a mess, I only had to look in the mirror to find the culprit. After a while I began to feel a bit lonely, so I got a cat.