A Theory About Atlanta

[BobKovacs]

Originally Posted by WilliamM

I'm just trying to think of examples offhand of international things Atlanta doesn't have that a wide range of other places in America have, and especially since we got our IKEA now and stuff, gotta tell you I'm not comin up with much. Any ideas?

I'm thinking a store that sells cheap particleboard furniture from Sweden isn't what most people are talking about when they talk about a city being "international"......

[RainyRainyDay]

Originally Posted by JasonPaul

I hope my question doesn't get the topic shut down, seems like a interesting subject (although it's a 2 year old post and the OP is still here), but what's a Homer?

Wikipedia has lots of ideas but none of them fit: Homer (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From context, I'd say the poster means something like home-town booster, wouldn't you?

[WilliamM]

Originally Posted by BobKovacs

I'm thinking a store that sells cheap particleboard furniture from Sweden isn't what most people are talking about when they talk about a city being "international"......

Wondering how hard I'd have to look in the average American mid-size to largish city to find those gourmet anchovies from Spain - the ones that come in the big cans which you can buy at the Dekalb Farmer's Market ? For that matter I wonder how many shops in the average New York City burgh carry them.

Just a random example, of course. No reason to judge a city as being international or not on that basis alone right? Then again, the human mind does tend to need a short-hand of some kind or other.