re: Atlanta traffic storys

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They do pay me 6 figures to put up with this shite, but fortunately can work from home when I choose (and when not traveling). Honestly, if you don't like big cities, then I get it, but if you choose to live in a metropolitan area, ATL is far better than most. I can walk from my house to go fly fishing or hop in the kayak or even do a little light bouldering, the restaurant scene is actually better than most cities I visit, and relative to a NYC, CHI, BOS, or even DC, the weather can't be beat and the traffic is actually better (not by a ton, but it is actually better - with lone exception that drivers here seem to struggle with the concept of merging... alternate like a zipper you fricks v^v^v^). I used to also fault ATL drivers for losing 30-50 IQ points in the rain, but have since learned that's all cities, even fricking Seattle where it rains all the God damn time.

I get it... if you are from fricking Soperton, GA, or wherever else in central/south GA where the most cars you see at any given time is like 6 and the most lanes in any direction is 3 even including the interstate, that Atlanta is a bit sketchy. But you could say the same if you visited any of the cities I listed above, or hit JAX or ORL in heavy traffic. I spent a year plus living in ORL and saw more heinous accidents there than i have in almost 10 in Atlanta... short story is tourists are fricking idiots.... drunk tourists even bigger ones.

Personally, I'm good with it. We need more people moving to Atlanta like I need a second taint. But the constant bitching around here about the city that quite literally keeps this fricking state afloat and out of the realm of Mississippi territory is so tired. Come up with something new.

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People from small towns in GA like to poke at Atlanta because 1) they have an inferiority complex because they don't live where the bulk of Georgians live, and 2) they don't really know anything about Atlanta because they've never been here. Sure, they came to a couple of Braves games, maybe a Falcon game here and there. And maybe they came to cousin Eddie's wedding in Stockbridge and thought they were in Atlanta. Metro Atlanta has everything; city, country, lakes, mountains, hiking, biking, boating, fishing, water skiing, restaurants, hotels, pro sports, shopping. Everything that the small town country folk have and so much more. Yes there's traffic. The reason is that everyone wants to live and work in this wonderful metro area and it creates rush hour traffic, just like all medium to large cities. Even Chattanooga has traffic.

I, too, make 6 figures to live here. And I wouldn't live anywhere else in GA except maybe Athens or the GA coast. I work from home and travel when I want. I avoid the traffic by generally staying out of it until it dies down. I'm 5 minutes from a mountain and a lake, 30 minutes from downtown. An hour to the north GA mountains. I can hunt, fish, hike, etc. any time I want.

Atlanta is not a concrete jungle. It's one of the greenest major cities in the world. People who make negative comments about Atlanta have simply never lived here or visited much. I've heard over and over "you couldn't pay me to live in Atlanta" from South GA folks. Well, no one's going to. So you enjoy where you are and we'll enjoy it here.