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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Originally Posted by Mutiny77
The mountains and the coast are within much shorter driving distances of Atlanta. Do you really want to have to lug a bunch of scuba, hiking, camping, and snowboarding gear on an airplane all the time as opposed to just loading up the car and driving a few short hours?
That's what I as thinking. Atlanta is also a much prettier city than Dallas.
Both cities have advantages over the other, but over all they are actually very similar. Atlanta is a Southeastern version of Dallas to the extent that Dallas is a Great Plains version of Atlanta.
But OP, it sounds like you like outdoor activities. If that is the case then I would choose Atlanta in a heartbeat. I live in the Dallas area and I love it here, but Ill be the first to admit Atlanta is a far more pretty city and that you'll have an easier time finding good things to do outside. Dallas has advantages over Atlanta, but those aren't them.
Think outside the box and expand your geography knowledge!
It is strange that you are limiting yourself to these two cities. There are other notable cities where you can salt water dive year round, and this includes SHORE diving or taking one of numerous charter boats to dive. There is current diving and freshwater diving, wall diving, spearfishing, technical diving as deep as you are allowed to dive based on your certification, and wreck diving. If you're hard-nosed as a scuba diver, you can travel a bit in your car and do some altitude diving and maybe some ice diving. To be seen are marine mammals, large anemones and other invertebrates, fish, sharks [somewhat elusive] and even skates [rarely], etc.). AND HERE you would ALSO be within an hour or two of snowboarding and skiing for as many as six to eight months of the year. In fact, you can do both in the same day (but that would be a long day), and be employed in the software industry to boot. No flying necessary for either activity from this region of the country. (Although why not? Here there are air connections to multiple domestic and international destinations.)
And no city on earth is close to both snowboarding and scuba diving, as the water close to snowboarding is going to be too freezing to scuba in.
Untrue. I go scuba diving here in Los Angeles in the channel islands, we have pretty good scuba diving here and the water temps in the summer are around 65-70F, not 80 degree Florida water but it's fine with a 7mm wetsuit, gloves and hood. In the winter SoCal has Big bear just an hour away, the snowboarding is not great but it's something, however 5 hours away in Central CA is Mammoth mountain and June Mountain, both have fantastic skiing/snowboarding.
Atlanta has vast swaths of filth just like that all over the city. You have to go out of your way to find places like that in San Francisco and LA. Atlanta is like that even in the "nice" parts of town. Atlanta's downtown district is a disgrace to the developed world.
Someone get this person a glass of water. They are boiling on the inside. Steam is rising from there head
Nope but they do make the city look very sleepy as well as a bit bland. Handsome city nonetheless.
True, those are nice photo threads but they focus a lot on houses and outlying areas. There are a few photo threads over on SkyscraperPage that show more of the urban core and are more lively.
I'm aware of the unemployment rate; I never actually disagreed with that. I simply said that the job market is much better for tech.
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And yes, the city is filthy, with crime and bums and thugs all over the place.
You're borderline trolling right now. Stop with the untruths.
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