Is Atlanta the right place to start a new life moving from your longtime home state for a young person in their 20s?

[Oliverlogan263]

Yes

No

[Whitey_Johnson]

Prices of both real estate and rent and still highest in the nation compared to per capita income. You're at the time of life when you need to begin saving and investing. Life in Atlanta doesn't leave you anything to save. And if this Cop City thing is not stopped, the whole town will become a militarization zone.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I used to love going to visit ATL (and the airport is phenomenal), but it's expensive and the summers are muggy AF. Traffic sucks and the crime rate is going up faster than I think warrants being there any length of time.

[handsomelad70]

Let me see. I'm a black man, and Atlanta has lots of monuments to the Civil Rights Movement and three HBCUs (Clark, Spelman and Morehouse, the latter all-female and all-male, respectively, but LOTS of HBCU broads are chubbettes), but it is horribly divided between rich and poor, expensive as all get out (by using that phrase, I'm betraying my age), and everything is about these mega-churches (and mini-churches;Atlanta is a major Bible Belt city), you can't advance unless you know some corrupt minister;its hot and humid in summer, though winters are fairly mild, and lastly, fat broads abound.(How do you know you're in the Atlanta suburbs? The fancy cars have gunracks.)

[handsomelad70]

I meant," Spelman is all-chicks and Morehouse all-dudes."

[BoopBoopBeep]

@handsomelad70 true story... in the 90s there were some problems... same as anywhere, but the obesity epidemic seems to have hit the ATL area super hard. Shark Bar used to be THE place to meet and greet the movers and shakers... last time i went the only moving and shaking was the floorboards from the BMI tripling in the past ten years.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Also I think the heyday for ATL was prior to the death of the freaknik

[handsomelad70]

I'm 5'9",205 lb. and I'd likely be regarded SKINNY in the ATL.

[handsomelad70]

I'll bet fat broads galore attended Freaknik.

[Lynnzee]

I don't alway hear the best about Atlanta few people I know moved there for awhile and moved back for whatever reason. I hear good things about different parts of Texas, that might be worth looking into

[DizzyDesii]

I think it had more job opportunities for poc BUT that city hella dangerous. I only go there for the airport and Six Flags. I have no interest in living there

[Joshydavid25]

Nah, Atlanta is a sh! t hole from what I heard.. It used to be good, but as usual by 2020 the politicians there got crazy, and started implementing policies that f**ked over the average citizen.. So, nah it's not a good place to start over.

[AviatorTom]

From what I hear, Atlanta is a diversified place, reasonable cost of living, with lots of job opportunities. And the weather is not bad.

[Iron_Man]

Some of My relatives moved there. It gets pretty cold in the winter time you might want to try Miami Florida that’s where I live. You might want to train at the fifth Street gym in Miami, Florida in Miami Beach. That’s where Muhammad Ali used to train Beau Jack former world champion used to train me I know that you show interest in boxing

[BoopBoopBeep]

My man... we have different versions of what "cold in the winter" means. Haha, you can always tell the Florida people. I was doing ruck marches at -10F and thinking "my what a mild winter we're having." ;)

[Iron_Man]

@BoopBoopBeep wow

[BoopBoopBeep]

@iron_manan
Haha... Last St Paddy's day I only did a 10k and my Gatorade froze into icicles in my beard. There was coffee at the end that I spilled on myself because the cup wouldn't go all the way to my lips because of the freeze.

[Iron_Man]

@BoopBoopBeep wow where is this at

[BoopBoopBeep]

@ironman Upper midwest. Worst windchill I've been in was -50F, worst windchill I've raced in was -30F I think.

[Iron_Man]

@BoopBoopBeep yikes

[handsomelad70]

@BoopBoopBeep St. Paddy's Day? Well, my name IS Brady.

[exitseven]

It used to be a nice city. I think it has fallen victim to democratvpolicies.

[OtterMan68]

Depends on job prospects and what neighborhood you can afford. Be ready for heat and humidity during the long summers!

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Atlanta quite literally is running out of room. Don’t move there

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Nope, my cousin lived down Georgia for a while, then she moved back to Pennsylvania.

[WhiteBoyChill]

I don’t think Atlanta actually looks like the photos you showed.

[laly520]

no

start somewhere smaller