re: What does Atlanta hang its hat on?

Too black!!!

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Also the only Black Serial Killer, IIRC.

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negative

Atlanta landing the ‘96 Olympics was something

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go sit at any Charlotte South or Mid City bar or restaurant on the Blue rail line around 5:30, look at the hundreds of 23-30 year old women running, walking or biking and get back to me

Charlotte is a major medical, Insurance, banking and Tech hub for SC, NC, VA, WV, MD and the city pulls graduates from schools in the ACC, SEC, and all of the smaller conferences in the region

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I'm not dogging Charlotte but we have Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas and Houston in the conference that are all probably pulling more of this than Charlotte.

Historically a major transportation hub for the South- rail, air, roads etc. According to Google,16 Fortune 500 companies, 473 Billion in GDP.

It’s close enough to the north Ga mountains and has a good park system of its own.

I know it’s a thing to dump on cities here, yet I like Atlanta ok. Being visually impaired, I depend on good transit systems when we visit cities, and I’m a railfan as well. MARTA is decent, would be better if they could expand into Cobb and link to Truist and into Marietta. But that topic is worthy of a discussion on its own.

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I'm not dogging Charlotte but we have Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas and Houston in the conference that are all probably pulling more of this than Charlotte.

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perhaps I am not making it clear what I am saying

in Charlotte you have a concentration of big business surrounded by hundreds of colleges in the Atlantic Seaboard Region and the city is built with a central rail line that a lot of the 23-30 year old professional types live off of and use for work

Of course Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Atlanta are all bigger and have more people but they are all very spread out and pretty much driving cities.

Charlotte has a metro train system that people actually use so the single women are more concentrated in apartments and condos in specific parts of the city. Not scattered all over the place

We had a business dinner at a cool Tapas restaurant right on the train line and were sitting by a big window. For two hours it was non-stop very attractive professional women in yoga pants and sports bras running, walking or walking their dogs. literally hundreds of them.

While I hate the very existence of the city based mostly on its traffic and the existence of the Falcons going back to Bartkowski and Alfred Jenkins, I have to explain its geographic relevance and thus growth

Look at a map of the US. Atlanta is an almost perfect location as a terminus / distribution point in the Eastern US. Dram a line from Boston on down the East coast, then draw a line from Los Angeles directly east and thos points more or less converge at the location that is Atlanta.

From Atlanta goods coming from the north have a stop over before being packaged for places like Texas and then California. But, more than anything Atlanta as a terminus is about a 2 hr flight from 80% of the US population. 700 miles from Chicago. 800 miles from NYC. 800 miles from Dallas and Houston respectively. It's a natural axel in a wheel as such you have I 85/95 taking things up the East coast. I 75 towards the great lakes and I 20 out towards Texas.

The climate works well there as well. Not much snow to slow things down and wet enough that water should not be a big issue ( although it may be reaching it's current water capacity for now) Far enough inland that hurricanes are not that big of a threat except in extreme situations. Hills and mountains to the north, pretty flat fertile land to the south.

The Founders of Atlanta really hit the jackpot geographically