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Old 04-02-2019, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Northeast
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I'm talking about the Atlanta area, not necessarily just the city itself.

Are transplants from the Northeast(NY, NJ, PA, DC, etc.) or the Deep South outside Georgia(South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and possibly North Florida and East Texas) more common?
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Old 04-02-2019, 09:23 AM
 
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Here in Alpharetta honestly most of my neighbors are from the east coast or from out of the country. My neighbor to the right is from Brooklyn, to the left is a family from Massachusetts. In our lane, a couple of a families are from India, one from Korea, one from China and one from LA..
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Old 04-02-2019, 09:25 AM
 
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The largest inbound migration flows come from NYC, Chicago, Detroit and Miami.

Native southerners, from what I've observed, are more likely to settle in the smaller sleepy towns (Birmingham, Memphis, Chattanooga, Columbus, Macon, Montgomery, Augusta, Savannah, etc.) or on the rural outskirts of Atlanta.
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Old 04-02-2019, 09:26 AM
 
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Just my personal experience as I’m from Boston and have been here since 2004 (lived ITP for 13 yrs, OTP for 2). I would say there’s definitely more deep south transplants than northeast transplants. It makes sense as graduates from nearby SEC schools like Alabama, Florida, Ole Miss etc end up in the largest southeast city to pursue careers.

The fellow northern transplants I meet are typically older (moving for cost of living or job transfer).
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Old 04-02-2019, 09:34 AM
 
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Just my personal experience as I’m from Boston and have been here since 2004 (lived ITP for 13 yrs, OTP for 2). I would say there’s definitely more deep south transplants than northeast transplants. It makes sense as graduates from nearby SEC schools like Alabama, Florida, Ole Miss etc end up in the largest southeast city to pursue careers.

The fellow northern transplants I meet are typically older (moving for cost of living or job transfer).
I agree the ITP younger crowd definitely trends southern. Once you move to the suburbs you meet a lot of northern transplant familes that move here for various reasons like COL, weather or jobs..
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Old 04-02-2019, 10:12 AM
 
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Default Which group of transplants are more common in Atlanta: Northeasterners or Deep Southerners(outside Georgia)?

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I'm talking about the Atlanta area, not necessarily just the city itself.

Are transplants from the Northeast(NY, NJ, PA, DC, etc.) or the Deep South outside Georgia(South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and possibly North Florida and East Texas) more common?
In addition to transplants from other parts of Georgia outside of metro Atlanta, transplants from both the Northeast (from Massachusetts to Northern Virginia (ESPECIALLY New York and New Jersey)) and the Deep South areas you named (AL, MS, LA, North FL and East TX) are very common in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

Transplants from the Midwest (Indiana, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Illinois and (ESPECIALLY) Michigan), the Upper South (Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri) and Lower Mid-Atlantic/Upper South Atlantic areas like North Carolina, and Virginia/West Virginia outside the D.C. area are also very common in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

There are also a very noticeable amount of transplants from the West Coast (particularly Southern California and even a few from the Bay Area) living in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

Atlanta is a real melting pot and a major hub for transplants from other parts of the South and the nation at-large.

Atlanta circa-2019 is basically a large major city/metro of transplants and immigrants.
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Old 04-02-2019, 12:24 PM
 
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Southerners, and I'm including all Southerners, not just those from the quasi-amorphous Deep South. But there are as many Northern (Northeasterners and Midwesterners) transplants as there are Southern transplants in the Atlanta region.
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Old 04-02-2019, 05:26 PM
 
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Based upon my interactions,

Atlanta Natives & midwestern people are the two most numerous groups. Ohio probably makes up 10% of the Atlanta general population.
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Old 04-02-2019, 06:15 PM
 
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I've seen as many New Jersey plates here as I've seen in the DMV

I mean that as literal as possible
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Old 04-02-2019, 07:23 PM
 
Location: Formerly Pleasanton Ca, now in Marietta Ga
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I’m here in Marietta and have met several people from the northeast. Several from Philadelphia. Not too many from the west coast except me and a person I met from Southern California.
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