re: What does the OT think of Atlanta?

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But I've lived here my entire life and spent countless hours surrounded by felons on our congested interstates and have never had anything resembling this encounter

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I get it, I grew up in NOLA (the city) and now live in Baton Rouge (in the city) so I know what you mean

But I always laugh when the Atlanta threads pop up bc I think of my bad experience there - and the other few times I’ve been were ok

The worst thing about Atlanta is there are too many people from Georgia living there...

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You didn't want to learn Spanish or Korean?

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You ain't kiddin'! The wife and I moved from Duluth to escape living in South Korea. Then Lawrenceville became an extension of Norcross and Spanish became the predominant language (with a few eastern Europeans scattered about for flavoring).

Yeah, I like it out here on the Carrollton/Haralson county line where the predominant language is red-neck-ese. I can stay fluent in my Spanish by visiting construction sites every once in awhile to check in on the jobs.

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We had the kids with us, so why would we go to a different part.

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I certainly wouldn't take kids to that area. You should have just gone to Eastside Beltline area plenty of stuff to do and kids everywhere with their parents.

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You should have just gone to Eastside Beltline area plenty of stuff to do and kids everywhere with their parents.

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ok

We wanted to go to the Coke museum - that’s not over there, so irrelevant

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Nobody from Georgia is living in Atlanta. It’s all transplants.

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Even today, when I run into someone who grew up here, I’m fascinated.

“You were born in Marietta and went to KSU”, oh man what was THAT like?”

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Even today, when I run into someone who grew up here, I’m fascinated.

“You were born in Marietta and went to KSU”, oh man what was THAT like?”

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This can't be overstated.

Even as far back as 2008, I got hired on a new project, with a dozen other people, and during the orientation the lady is going around the circle having people talk about where they are from. Everyone was from somewhere else. When she got to me, I said "I'm from here". She said, but where are you from originally?. "Here.". But where were you born? "On Peachtree street at Piedmont hospital in 1978". For whatever reason the room bursted out in laughter, but it was the disbelief that someone could be working in Atlanta and also originally be from Atlanta or the immediate surrounding area.

As I worked there for years, in the whole office building (4 stories in Brookhaven), I only ever met two other people that were natives. Everyone else was from somewhere else. Not necessarily Yankees, but lots of people from the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama.

Well, this is a year old from the US census. It's just the city limits of Atlanta but saying ATL barely has a black population is comical.