ATL named 10th snobbiest city in America (Atlanta: 2014, home)

[Newsboy]

These Movoto things just keep getting more and more ridiculous ...

Movoto: Atlanta the No. 10 snobbiest American city - Atlanta Business Chronicle

[arjay57]

How dare they call us snobby? I don't even know who these Movoto people are.

And what a peculiar name. They must not be from around here.

[Gilah G.]

My husband just came back from an Atlanta interview....
He said, he was pleasantly surprised with how friendly, helpful, and nice
People were to him there.

[netdragon]

I grew up in Connecticut, and the snobbery here almost rivals Connecticut.

[bryantm3]

This is how bad statistics works:

Small City Limits and Low City Population of 450,000 + Everything You Would Find In Any City Of 5 Million = We're #1 At Everything

[sedimenjerry]

They must've looked at the ITP OTP debates on here to come to that conclusion. In public it's no worse than any other large city

[Gulch]

Now where's my monocle?

[Thulsa]

Well, here's the criteria that Motovo used:

Median home price (the higher the better)
Median household income (the higher the better)
Percent of population with a college degree (the higher the better)
Private schools per capita (the more the better)
Performing arts per capita (the more the better)
Art galleries per capita (the more the better)
Fast food restaurants per capita (the fewer the better)

This sounds like a list of "nice place to live"
Not a single one of these factors are related to the definition of the word "snob"
Someone needs to buy those Motovo clowns a dictionary, or perhaps hire someone to read it to them.

[Group Hug]

What Thulsa said. With criteria like that, I think most of us would say the snobbier, the better!

[ElleKaye]

I could not even agree with the first sentence of the article, and it went downhill from there:

Atlanta likes to think of itself as the Empire City of the South -- big and progressive like New York, but still full of Southern charm.

"Snobbiest" was a poor choice of term.