Report: Top 20 Cities Where New Atlanta Residents Come From (Dallas: houses, moving to)

[NativeSon504]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

NOLA is on the list, just not towards the top as I thought it would be. I suppose it's just a function of the numbers since NOLA isn't all that big to begin with and a lot of NOLA natives have also migrated to Texas.

Yeah, I willing to bet they're are more NOLA folks in Houston than Atlanta by far and this is PRE AND POST KATRINA.

[atler8]

You did not read what I wrote. You should not have "stopped reading" what I wrote, as you said you did, because through that incomplete reading, you misunderstood my intent.
I never said that YOU said that Atlantans should feel inferior. I wrote however that I disagreed with YOUR ASSERTION that Atlantans had an inferiority complex on CD or anywhere frankly. There's a big difference in those 2 concepts.
Please reread our exchanges in total & please do not talk down at me as far as referring to me as not grasping what you have written.
I have not said an unkind word to you or accused you of badmouthing Atlanta.
On this thread I have entirely referred to what other Texans have inferred or said about Atlanta's economy.
It would appear that you are the one who is being too sensitive, to borrow a phrase that you used earlier about Atlantans on CD.

[SLIMMACKEY]

Originally Posted by AtlantaIsHot

LOL
I've noticed many Atlantans on this board seem to have an inferiority complex. I guess Dallas and Houston (along with D.C. and Miami) are perceived as Atlanta's greatest competitors, which they are. These 3 metros have all seen incredible growth from sleepy crossroads to major metropolitan regions over the past 50 years. Atlantans seem to worry excessively about "falling behind" city A, B, C, etc. It's a silly notion. Take Dallas and Houston for example. They both began their periods of rapid growth around the same time Atlanta did. Dallas and Houston were always slightly bigger than Atlanta when they began. Dallas and Houston grew somewhat faster in the 1960's and 1970's while Atlanta boomed in the 1980's and 1990's and matched or exceeded the Texas twins. Atlanta was usually the winner in job creation and corporate relocations for much of the past 2 decades. In the 2000's the 3 were pretty evenly matched. Dallas is inflated by the presence of Fort Worth fairly close by. The fact that Atlanta has grown to be almost as big as Dallas and Fort Worth combined is pretty impressive. All 3 are symbols of the growth of the sunbelt. Even in the current slowdown the 3 areas are recording growth any northern metro would kill for.

Interesting.....though I may add that the majority of people you meet in ATL on an everyday basis are from somewhere else. The same could probably be said for posters on CD as well. I believe JoeTarheel stated it best when he said that the defensiveness comes from all of the hating directed towards ATL. For whatever reason, ATL attracts a wide array of long range hate from other places.....

[SLIMMACKEY]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

NOLA is on the list, just not towards the top as I thought it would be. I suppose it's just a function of the numbers since NOLA isn't all that big to begin with and a lot of NOLA natives have also migrated to Texas.

Just to clarify your point a bit, NOLA residents never really migrated to Texas...they we kinda forced that way. But there are more in Houston than in ATL for sure.

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by BlackPeach2

Maybe you guys should stop "opposing" and ignore it. Not everyone is going to love Atlanta. You boosters come off as if your feelings are hurt when someone says anything & then you have the Troll threads that some Atlanta boosters make in an attempt to tease those who dont like Atlanta, so it goes both ways.

Why is anyone who responds to some ignorance a "booster"? It's crappy posts like this one that start arguments...you calling everyone boosters and accusing others of having hurt feelings when you can't possibly know that from reading a reply. I don't ever post anything from a position of "hurt feelings". That's ridiculous. And I'm not a booster, but I do love my city and do respond when I see fit.

The Atlanta hate is something that I haven't ever understood in this forum. It's not really present in real life, but mostly exists online. I think that it comes from a jealousy of the South and its popularity with transplants at the expense of Northeastern/Midwestern cities as well as a view of the South as backwards and/or less than other regions.

You can obviously view it however you like, but from my experiences in this forum most of the Atlanta members are not boosters nor are they responding from hurt feelings.

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by BlackPeach2

Its weird man....they never see the more they try to defend it, the more people will try to find holes in the armor.

You have it all figured out don't you? LOL! I guess you are just above the rest of us...the arrogance in your responses is just too funny - like you know something the rest of us can't possibly understand. I was a little irritated by your condescending stance, but now it's just funny.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by SLIMMACKEY

Just to clarify your point a bit, NOLA residents never really migrated to Texas...they we kinda forced that way. But there are more in Houston than in ATL for sure.

That's still considered a migration, especially since it continued in the years since Katrina.

I think I meet just as many folks here from LA and MI as from surrounding states.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by SLIMMACKEY

Interesting.....though I may add that the majority of people you meet in ATL on an everyday basis are from somewhere else. The same could probably be said for posters on CD as well. I believe JoeTarheel stated it best when he said that the defensiveness comes from all of the hating directed towards ATL. For whatever reason, ATL attracts a wide array of long range hate from other places.....

I'm with JoeP. On this forum, a number of people interpret any comment that's not glowing as "hatred."

[atler8]

Considering the rudeness that erupted here, some of it directed at me personally, I was correct about what I wrote back on the 21st in this thread about WW3 starting.
I have yet to see an apology.

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by bu2

I'm with JoeP. On this forum, a number of people interpret any comment that's not glowing as "hatred."

That's ridiculous...there are many comments made on this site that aren't "glowing", but it's the negative ones that are obviously made out of spite or ignorance that get the harsher responses. If you make a comment that's offensive you better believe there will be some defense - that's the way the world works. But if you make an informed comment or pose an honest question it won't be received negatively by 99% of Atlanta members. We are just like members from any other city on this forum, and to accuse us of being anything else just isn't reality.