Why are Georgians so...? (Atlanta, Savannah: house, quality of life, place to live)

[Saintmarks]

Must have been a slow new week at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. They must be losing talented columnists to other fields as well. As lame of an article as I've seen in quite a while

[tikigod311]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

Must have been a slow new week at the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

No doubt.

"Ok, gotta do some research. Something about Georgia... Lets go to Google. Hmmmmm. Georgia is.... OH SNAP! It says racist! NICE, I'm done with my assignment for the week!"

Colored is offensive due to its past. Its really only excusable to said by older folks. I wouldn't recommend saying it, but its not right to get your panties in a wad about it.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by tikigod311

Colored is offensive due to its past. Its really only excusable to said by older folks. I wouldn't recommend saying it, but its not right to get your panties in a wad about it.

However, I don't think the term "people of color" is considered offensive.

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by arjay57

However, I don't think the term "people of color" is considered offensive.

Then the NAACP should change their name to the NAAPC.

[ATLTJL]

Find a way to make it work financially

That's really the problem, isn't it? The only way to make it work financially is to find a job that somehow pays A LOT more than I make now.

If I wanted to own a home, even one half the size of what I have now and even if I didn't mind a condo instead of a house, I'd still have to have a much larger salary to ever make it work in California. Besides, that whole place is probably about to be destroyed by a major quake. I'm sure it would happen right after I got there.

I do like California, especially southern California.

[PosterExtraordinaire]

I just moved to Atlanta a couple weeks ago from Detroit (only was there a couple months too). My immediate impressions:

1)Beautiful people (women )
2)fashionably dressed
3)very green
4)very modern
5)very clean
6)very gay
7)hilly
8)very spread out, the PT is ok (The MARTA can be slow if catching connections-I hate that it shuts down at 1am)
9)a lot of transplants
10)the natives are generally warm and happy

Over those couple weeks I can add:

1)more Mexicans than I expected (a weird statement, maybe it's just where I live, but the last time I saw people crowd the streets waiting for people to drive and give them work was Los Angeles)
2)a lot of chains (all the restaurants taste middle of the line, I'm struggling to find hole in the wall unique spots)
3)not that many homeless (California and Detroit have way more)

lol

[ericsonga]

Originally Posted by ja1myn

Lol. I hated the cold before I moved down here too, but now I think I'd rather have cold winters with tolerable summers than summers that feel like I'm walking in a desert. Overall though, it's not a bad place. I'm excited to see how mild winters will be.

I know people will think I'm crazy, but I think we have had a super mild summer. Other than a couple hot weeks here and there, I have been really comfortable. August in particular has been very mild. We had dinner on the patio at La Fonda the other night and I had to get my sweatshirt out of the car, hehe.

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by arjay57

However, I don't think the term "people of color" is considered offensive.

Exactly right...it isn't.

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by yxnstat

You're wrong. The term is highly offensive all across the country. Firstly, it invokes the history of segregation. Type "white, colored" into Google Image Search. Secondly, it suggests that white is normal, regular, the default and everything else is abnormal, irregular, a variation.

Thank you...I posted links and definitions of "colored" that proved this point, but that didn't seem to get through to him. He's only 19. He'll learn.

[researchnerd]

Originally Posted by ericsonga

I know people will think I'm crazy, but I think we have had a super mild summer. Other than a couple hot weeks here and there, I have been really comfortable. August in particular has been very mild. We had dinner on the patio at La Fonda the other night and I had to get my sweatshirt out of the car, hehe.

I was just thinking this the other day. Other than several weeks of 100+ temps early on (my electric bill for June was over $400), it hasn't been nearly as bad as the past few summers.

That said, GA is definitely hot and humid. The climate is humid subtropical, the same as Argentina or northern Italy. I was born and raised in the northeast (NY/MA/CT), I have been here for 18 years, and I am still not used to the summer here. I thought about moving back a couple of years ago, but then realized that either way I have a couple of months of the year when I can't deal with doing stuff outside. Up north it's in the winter, here it's in the summer. Just a paradigm shift.

I don't think GA is any more racist than anywhere else. I think it's an old stereotype left over from the 50s. I've also found Georgians to be friendlier in general than many other places. I noticed it right off when I visited for the first time, and I still encounter it. Up north, people don't smile and wave at each other for no reason up north. My neighbor is a drug dealer but always cheerfully says good morning to me when I leave for work.

There *is* the whole concept of polite-ing people to death, which is a VERY southern thing, but that's a whole other topic.