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re: What does the OT think of Atlanta?
Posted on 5/5/25 at 2:42 pm to dallastiger55
Posted on 5/5/25 at 2:42 pm to dallastiger55
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It's just the city limits of Atlanta but saying ATL barely has a black population is comical.
A 47% plurality isn't "barely."
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Posted on 5/5/25 at 2:42 pm to deeprig9
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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.
This is exactly what it’s like, and I’m guilty as charged. I’m like, “oh you mean, like here here??”
Somehow in our brains, it’s like Sherman burned it down and it didn’t come back again until the 96 Olympics.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 2:51 pm to McDonaldsBagMan
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What does the OT think of Atlanta?
The Capital of the Empire State of the South. Has everything one could possibly ask for in a city, cost of living is respectable, a melting pot of people from the region and the world....all in all a great place to live, especially when you are young....and when you get older move out to one of the may suburbs that are super nice and slower paced. Traffic is bad but no worse than it is in similar sized cities.
Its my hometown, I used to think the sun and the moon rose and set on Peachtree Street. I do not live in Atlanta now but would if opportunity presented itself...
Posted on 5/5/25 at 3:03 pm to ronricks
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I certainly wouldn't take kids to that area
You wouldn't take kids to the World of Coke, Ga Aquarium, CFHOF? That area is fine.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 3:05 pm to Wally Sparks
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It's just the city limits of Atlanta but saying ATL barely has a black population is comical.
A 47% plurality isn't "barely."
Atlanta hasn't elected a white mayor since 1970.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 3:41 pm to McDonaldsBagMan
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Cons
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overrated food scene
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real estate market
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demographics
The population of the Atlanta City Limits gas gentrified greatly the last 15 years or so. It's not as black as people think.
This post was edited on 5/5/25 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 5/5/25 at 3:45 pm to WG_Dawg
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This is a Louisiana based board so most people will say it sucks. Without fail every time this thread comes up weekly, what you'll notice is that the ones screaming the loudest about how bad it sucks are also the ones that have never even been there other than for a concert or sporting event...in other words they've never left the tiny little bubble in the heart of downtown.
And what's funny is the fact that people from Louisiana call other places a shithole.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 3:49 pm to Darth_Vader
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Kennesaw
Wifey and SIL are from Kennesaw.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 3:59 pm to McDonaldsBagMan
BARF
Posted on 5/5/25 at 4:00 pm to justaniceguy
quote:I lived in Sandy Springs for a while and commuted to Marietta. Both north of Atlanta but required getting on 285. Morning traffic was usually better than evening traffic but traffic sucks all day. If you can avoid major highways you should be okay.
How is life in Roswell, GA if you don’t have to commute into Atlanta? Is the traffic only bad when commuting or is it just any time you go to Atlanta? Or is it just everywhere, all over the burbs? That is how DC apparently is.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 4:01 pm to Lexis Dad
Same person, or no?
Posted on 5/5/25 at 4:06 pm to Pettifogger
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Atlanta has the largest black middle class in the world by 100 miles
Yep.
You still have hoods, bad ones. But you also see a lot more established middle-class black neighborhoods (Cascade, Ben Hill, etc) than pretty much any other major city.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 4:34 pm to McDonaldsBagMan
I lived there from 2003-5.5. It was fun, as I was pretty young. All the music, art and booze you could want.
Eventually the traffic got to me.
If you move there, live downtown/midtown. Anywhere else and you pretty much have the same Kohls/Ulta/Etc sprawl.
Eventually the traffic got to me.
If you move there, live downtown/midtown. Anywhere else and you pretty much have the same Kohls/Ulta/Etc sprawl.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 4:36 pm to McDonaldsBagMan
Everywhere in Atlanta without "culture" is fantastic. The culture and culture adjacent areas, not so much.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 5:10 pm to N2cars
Yep
Got a new phone and lost my account info so made a new one.
Got a new phone and lost my account info so made a new one.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 5:27 pm to VABuckeye
Downtown will be good in a few years. CIM Development out of LA is making progress on Centenniel Yards. It is going to fill in the entire undeveloped area between State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz/ Centenniel Park. The area that has been labeled “The Gulch” for a long time. Just acres and acres of property that is at original 1800s street level. Some seedy parking lots for events at the arena and stadiums is all it’s been used for for decades. CIM has already completed a couple of 20+ story buildings right in front of Mercedes. One a hotel and the other apartments. Phase II is underway now and targeted to be ready by the World Cup next summer. It will have a Cosym, a 6,000 seat concert arena, and a 5 story hotel , restaurants and shops, sitting on a podium. After that, there are 15-20 more buildings on the master plan that will completely transform the DT district. It will be much like the Battery up at Truist Park but much larger when done.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 5:31 pm to justaniceguy
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Nah, a lot of young people absolutely want to live in Atlanta, Houston, whatever bumping big city.
Agreed. I do think big cities lose a lot of their appeal for many as they get older though. Certainly not everyone, but I lived in NYC for a year at 22 and had fun for awhile, but it would take a vast sum of money for me to do it again at 47.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 5:35 pm to wesfau
That’s changed. The suburbs all have little city centers now that have restaurants, bars and shopping.
Marietta Square
Downtown Woodstock
Downtown Roswell
Avalon/alpharetta
Downtown Kennesaw is the only area that really dropped the ball. Just a train wreck.
Marietta Square
Downtown Woodstock
Downtown Roswell
Avalon/alpharetta
Downtown Kennesaw is the only area that really dropped the ball. Just a train wreck.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 5:36 pm to turnpiketiger
quote:everyone who lives in Atlanta is jealous of Ruston
Nobody wants to live in major metros. They’re forced
Posted on 5/5/25 at 5:39 pm to McDonaldsBagMan
I’ve lived in Kennesaw for 21 years. I’m 20 minutes from my boat at the marina. I can hike some good mountain terrain and we have a creek in our backyard with tons of wildlife. Can be at the Braves stadium in 30 minutes and also some cool downtown spots like Woodstock and Marietta are close. Fall is amazing and love the central accessibility to SEC football. It’s hard to beat.
Downtown Kennesaw does need to get their crap together…..though
Downtown Kennesaw does need to get their crap together…..though
This post was edited on 5/5/25 at 5:43 pm
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