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Let’s pretend you’ve just been handed $75 million and you have to decide between the inland giants of Atlanta or Dallas as your new home. Which would you choose and why?
Location: Miami (prev. NY, Atlanta, SF, OC and San Diego)
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Ooh...very tough choice, good debate. I lived in Atlanta for 2 years during grad school at Emory and visited Dallas 2x/year for 33 years working for Texas Instruments...might give a slight edge to Atlanta as it’s closer to where I vacation and I found the Southern Belle’s there more my type. Both have hub airports, are good sports towns, and have ex NY’ers.
Dallas.
Lived in Atlanta for a few weeks and the lack of good north-south roads made me insane.
Also it was Houston-esque in its lack of zoning.
I also far prefer the DFW airport.
Even though has a smaller economy than Dallas by a decent amount, the wealth concentration in some places is extremely hard to beat, and I much prefer the urban core. You have Buckhead, Midtown, suburbs in North Fulton, and more to satisfy your need for high end amenities and areas that will give you a great QOL. A lot of cool festivals, concerts, shows come to Atlanta. It's also far closer to amazing beaches, the mountains, and the scenery around the area is much nicer.
Atlanta. Already lived in DFW. No desire to ever go back. Crap climate and zero scenery. It's Kansas/Oklahoma on steroids. Atlanta at least has mountains and real outdoor recreation nearby. Dallas has a bunch of crowded, crappy lakes.
Last edited by bluescreen73; 10-22-2019 at 08:20 PM..
Can I pick another city? Otherwise I'll take DFW, no state income tax and cheaper. While Atlanta may be closer to the eastern seaboard, Dallas is a great ski town.
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