re: Atlanta sucks arse

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Unmarried...ITP is the only way to go.

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I'd just say it was a perfect setup being in my early 20's and starting a career. Good mix of partying while understanding the job comes first. Going straight to Sandy Sprinfs single basically means you were neighbors with parents and kids.

Lived in the Atlanta area twice, a lifetime ago: 1987-1990 while I went to grad school at Ga. Tech, and 1993-94 for wife's 1st year of medical residency at Emory.

Both times lived inside the Perimeter, in Ansley Park (cheap but cozy basement apt.) and Decatur (nice little cottage house). No way I'd live outside the perimeter. You could be in Anywheresville America out there-- suburban tract housing, strip shopping centers and malls, and traffic was a bitch.

All the neat in-town areas previously mentioned by other posters -- Buckhead, Midtown, Virginia-Highlands, Inman Park, Atkins Park, Little Five Points-- were happening, fun places with a lot of charm. The city is blessed topographically; well wooded with lots of hills and greenery, and four true seasons. I actually liked it a lot at the time; and if I was from somewhere other than S. Louisiana, I probably could have lived there. But it wasn't home; I missed the water, laid-back attitudes, family, and the ability to buy a bottle of wine on Sunday.

Since then, I've visited Atlanta and environs quite a few times, and every time I go, it's SO different from just that 25-30 years ago. It's gotten a lot denser; new buildings, etc. I literally had trouble finding my way around Buckhead last time, there was so much new/redeveloped stuff. Heck, they've gone through one Braves ballpark and into another one since I've been gone. And sprawl continues unabated-- as an example when I lived there, Forsyth County was the redneck sticks where their point of pride was that NO black people lived there-- now it's just the next further out suburban area with its own subdivisions and malls.

All in all, kind of glad I didn't stay.

I don't blame you for wanting to be "home" but ITP is arguably better than ever. It's denser in parts, but it's still heavily forested and one of the few places in the country where you can have a half acre wooded lot 3-4 miles away from that kind of density.

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When it comes to economic growth, Louisiana is struggling. 

A new WalletHub study ranked the Pelican State as the worst economy in the United States, using a number of factors such as economic performance and strength. The study examined GDP growth to startup activity to even whether people are inventing things 

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You day drinking Torch?

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Most major cities suck. The charm is in the suburbs.

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it's the opposite

Atlanta does have one of my favorite bars its too bad it was so damn far away...Smiths Olde Bar

No it was in Abernathy Square. Figured that trash like that wouldn’t be in there.

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it's the opposite

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It's neither

Charm is in smaller cities or towns. There's nothing charming about most big cities or suburbs

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That's generally correct. The suburbs however are pretty good. At least my town and those around me.

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I grew up in Woodstock.

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There's plenty of charming neighborhoods in older big cities, including Atlanta. With certain niche exceptions, the "smaller town" as a distinct entity is all but dead in this country - for better or worse.

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In my head, places in the Northeast, New England in particular, may still have small towns of reasonably well off, educated people. I don't know if this is true, but they definitely don't exist in the South.