A friend is moving to Atlanta Georgia, and I’m wondering how it is to live in: weather, housing, schools, etc.
Where in Atlanta is he moving to? Many things are diffrent depending on where in the Atlanta metro area he is moving to.
Everyone in GA lives in “Atlanta”, but the inner-city area doesn’t seem to have that many people in it.
I have no idea.
Aren’t there any general things that can be said about living in that part of the country, as opposed to living in New York, Texas, San Francisco, for example?
Well, they got Lil Jon, so that’s something.
I was in Alpharetta, GA (north of Atlanta) for a couple of weeks, and I really liked it. Pretty weather, lots of dining, cinemas, etc. within walking distance of my hotel. My cousin also lives by Alpharetta, not far from Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. According to him, the Browns hold the record for “most-arrested” couple in Alpharetta’s history.
Well…it’s not really like Georgia at all anymore, not that it ever really was. Atlanta has always been considered a “new” upstart city, very unlike Savannah and Augusta. Savannah and Augusta have an impeccable pedigree, and Atlanta is a mongrel mutt. Before the Civil War, it was not as old as the coastal cities, so it was a bustling sort of cow town. After the Civil War, it had to be rebuilt, and of course the carpetbaggers poured in, and they have never really stopped. It has been a pretty constant stream of anyone and everyone who is from anywhere but Georgia. You will be hard-pressed to find and authentic Southern accent, especially inside the perimeter. There is a market in Dekalb County that is a global microcosm. You’ll find pretty much every culture represented.
I’m not saying it is all bad, it just isn’t Georgia. I am a native Georgian, and when I have to go to Atlanta, I feel like I am going to foreign country. It’s an interesting place to visit, but after about two days, the fast pace just gets to me, and I have to get on back down the interstate to my beloved Savannah.
People who come to Georgia and only visit Atlanta have not really been to Georgia.
It also is a city that suffers from sever urban sprawl. It just goes on and on, and many of the smaller, outlying towns have now been swallowed up. That’s why it makes a huge difference where your friend will be going. There affluent neighborhoods, there are pockets of country people here and there, and there is also a pretty bad turf war among rappers going on in Buckhead and parts of Sandy Springs. Marietta is still pretty much a soccer mom type of place, as is Alpharetta and Lilburn. Kennesaw and Doraville probably still have the greatest number of locals there.