Natives and Locals of Atlanta - Your Opinions Please (Sandy Springs: weddings, place to live)
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Atlanta is a great city: Fun, vibrant, well educated, relatively young, mostly affordable, and strikingly beautiful, with a rich history, progressive tradition and business-savvy sense that has long made it known as "The City to Busy to Hate." Recently named by Fodor's as one of the World's Top 10 Cities to visit in 2011 -- and the only one in the U.S.! Is it perfect? Of course not. No place is. But people who can't find happiness in Atlanta probably wouldn't be happy anywhere. And if that's you, Atlanta also happens to have an airport with more nonstop flights going to more cities in more countries on more contintents than anyplace else on earth, so you can go be unhappy someplace else.
And you need to take off your "Negative Nancy" coat. I am as well-traveled as anyone that posts here. Thankfully, this is not your usual Northern, "older & colder" city, and I am thankful for this on a daily basis.
If life doesn't suit you here, MOVE THE F&^K AWAY!. This place grew up in a different time and place - that is what makes us distinctively different from most large metro areas. If you can't handle this, why are you still here?
If you think this place is so horrible, just exactly what do YOU suggest to make it better?
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Originally Posted by Newsboy
Atlanta is a great city: Fun, vibrant, well educated, relatively young, mostly affordable, and strikingly beautiful, with a rich history, progressive tradition and business-savvy sense that has long made it known as "The City to Busy to Hate." Recently named by Fodor's as one of the World's Top 10 Cities to visit in 2011 -- and the only one in the U.S.! Is it perfect? Of course not. No place is. But people who can't find happiness in Atlanta probably wouldn't be happy anywhere. And if that's you, Atlanta also happens to have an airport with more nonstop flights going to more cities in more countries on more contintents than anyplace else on earth, so you can go be unhappy someplace else.
Believe me, I'm working on getting out. However, I have a plan that won't allow me to just do it overnight. I never said Atlanta was absolutely horrible. In fact I defend Atlanta occasionally as a fairly decent place to live. I'm not adverse to being critical of it though.
I don't think quoting CVB brochures is helping to inform anyone. I think people prefer honest opinions of a place before they make a decision to move there. If some opinions happen to be somewhat negative then so be it. Anyone with half a brain can sift through the pros and cons and take into account personality differences and preferences and come to their own conclusions about a place. There's no need to mobilize the Super Friends every time someone voices an opinion that may make a potential new resident view this city realistically rather than through peppy "Yay Atlanta!" BS.
There is PLENTY for you to do in Atlanta. You can check out plays at the Fox or at the Cobb Energy Center. You can visit Stone Mountain during the or at night. Cost of living is CHEAP. Several new museums are being built in downtown in the next few years. Another Atlantic Station is being built in next to the Airport. No other city in America has had more sports options as Atlanta. The mountains arent far away. We are a few hours away from the beach. Several new movie studios are being built here if you ever wanted to act. The Beltline project is moving forward, 22 miles of rail. Streetcars will be built here soon. Not as cold here as it is in the north. People are more friendly here. Atlanta is very diverse, check out Gwinnett County and Buford Hwy. There is always something going on here. Close to 50 Headquarters will be moving to Metro Atlanta in the future. A new development called Streets of Buckhead (www.streetsofbuckhead.com) will be built once the economy bounces back. Midtown Miles is coming soon. etc
Dont listen to the negative people on here. A lot of people are jealous of Atlanta and they spread hate in our threads.
Growing up here, I've seen Atlanta change dramatically.
Here's an analagy... It used to be that you could go to a braves game and have an enjoyable experience. Now you have to leave 3 hours b/f the game, sit in 2 hours of traffic, pay for parking, then sit in 2 hours in trarffic again after the game. This is a good sum up of atlanta. Traffic symbolizes so many things here. It amazes me. I mean you should not have 12 LANES of traffic going through the city. That is just rediculous.
Now I'm not saying there arent cute little neighborhoods within limits. There are. But even those dont give you that "city feel." 6 million people now make up there area, but only 10% of those people live IN the city. What does that say? Downtown is pretty much a ghostown when the sun goes down. Have you been to Chi, NY, SF, Bos, DC? We are lagging behind these cities imo when it comes to the overall "lving experience." My grandma lives in NJ. I stepped out her front door, walked a blocked and hoped on a bus to NYC and I was there in 20 minutes. Again, what does that say? A bus was able to get me into NYC... an area about 4 times larger than ATL... during rush hour in the morning in 20 minutes? Haha.. that's what i think when i try to imagine getting to atl from the suburbs within 20 minutes.
It's the connectivity that you dont see here. I grew up on the south side of atlanta and I couldnt even tell you anything about the northern suburbs... probably could not even direct you too them. But what if we were all connected? Could you imagine? I saw a gym on like the 30th floor of a skyscaper in chicago... girls running on treadmills overlooking the city. And I said wow... I wish something like that was possible in atl... I do think atl has a lot of potential. And honestly, as the area grows, I think people will realize that this type of lifestyle just isnt sustainable. Something needs to be done.
And you'll have people on here saying that oh ATL is great, so much to offer, blah blah blah. And it does, there are a lot of great things here. This is my home and it will always will be.. But I'm looking at it from the mountain top... the overall picture. Hopefully one day, it will be a city most of us will be proud of.
Believe me, I'm working on getting out. However, I have a plan that won't allow me to just do it overnight. I never said Atlanta was absolutely horrible. In fact I defend Atlanta occasionally as a fairly decent place to live. I'm not adverse to being critical of it though.
I don't think quoting CVB brochures is helping to inform anyone. I think people prefer honest opinions of a place before they make a decision to move there. If some opinions happen to be somewhat negative then so be it. Anyone with half a brain can sift through the pros and cons and take into account personality differences and preferences and come to their own conclusions about a place. There's no need to mobilize the Super Friends every time someone voices an opinion that may make a potential new resident view this city realistically rather than through peppy "Yay Atlanta!" BS.
Who the hell is quoting CVB brochures? I defend this place from the absolutely ridiculous claims that are made against it on a more than daily basis. You really haven't done anything but thrash the place in months and months. If you really want out, then go! I'm beyond sure that Boston, Baltimore, D.C., etc, will welcome you with OPEN ARMS!
Of course, all of these places are absolutely famous for their open attitude and welcoming warmth.
Please report back to us after you've made it to the "promised land" just to confirm that you were right.
You just made my morning with that comeback. Captain Atlanta! And you just KNOW she's wearing a skintight peach colored leotard under that sparkly cape.
Back to the topic at hand and to the OP: you have to take everything with a grain of salt. Captain Atlanta is so biased towards the city that he would tell you to live in a shelter in Five Points if it meant you would move here. I live in Boston and due to my job I am FORCED to travel to Atlanta about twice a month. Sister, it ain't happenin here. Stick to the older Northern cities where you can walk around and where dense neighborhoods hold communities together. Atlanta is one giant strip mall with no natural boundaries that spreads all over the place. It's too hot in the summer, spring and fall and not warm enough in the winter to make it a cool destination place like Florida or California.
Be gone evil one, before somebody drops a house on you.
6 million people now make up there area, but only 10% of those people live IN the city. What does that say? Downtown is pretty much a ghostown when the sun goes down. Have you been to Chi, NY, SF, Bos, DC?
Here's a little math exercise for you...
560,000 people live in the City of Atlanta, 6 million in it's Metro
599,000 people live in the District of Columbia, 6 million in it's Metro
850,000 people live in San Francsico, 7 million in it's Metro
560,000 people live in the City of Atlanta, 6 million in it's Metro
599,000 people live in the District of Columbia, 6 million in it's Metro
850,000 people live in San Francsico, 7 million in it's Metro
What was that argument again?
HOORAY! Kudos to you for pointing out what SHOULD be obvious (I also thought it funny that somehow, seeing girls on treadmills 40 floors up makes a city more ... something?)
Anyway, another fave C-D complaint along those same lines is:
"Atlanta's the only major metro in Georgia: If you take Atlanta out of Georgia, you've got Mississippi ..."
YEAH? Ditto for:
Chicago = Illinois
Denver = Colorado
Minneapolis = Minnesota
Las Vegas = Nevada
And on and on ... it's all relative. It's all stupid.
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