"Atlanta will eat you up. You sure you still want to move here?"

[perfectblack999]

I feel like today, with everything the internet offers, it’s irresponsible to move to a city with no plan.

It makes no sense.

 

[invalid]

Put me on with your cuz. I got 10 years corporate banking experience

Felker Ward Jr., look him up.

 

[Leao2005]

I’m sure a lot of black folks know this but the reality is people want to be in the A because of trends. Black folks who diversify their living choices and understand where the opportunity is in their career field will always be the most successful.

ATL is popular in hop hop. Realty tv and has a rich black culture so yea a black person who has horrible research skills will just choose ATL as the first place to move to.

with that being said my cousin who lives there and was raised in Long Island is doing very well. Her daughter lives with roommates in midtown ATL.

Where would you consider a great place for black folk in 2021. DMV?

 

[Dzali OG]

I got ran outta ATL selling dope. Them atl nikkas kicked my door. I moved that morning. This was when having Florida plates on your car was auto beef.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

You gotta go to the cities no one really talks about like that but are still on the low dope spots to live, like say Charlotte or Savannah

Charlotte is very popular for relocation and is pretty much going through the same thing as ATL is going through as far rising cost

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I had a buddy of mine tell me tales of all these whores...big ole booties....I should move yadda yadda...im like-- I aint moving for booty...there women everywhere..cmon

plus I was already entrenched in my career making money...ima just quit and move? like you said...now if someone REAL...was throwing bread my way...now I gotta

I think there is something mentally wrong for someone who moves for booty. The ratio of men to women is not that different in most American cities


This isn’t India

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Atlanta cheap as hell.

Cause you from Cali lol

 

[Originalman]

yoy mean gulf stream. They bring on dudes every so often as contractors then drop em all lol

my fault breh I meant Gulf Stream I must if had a brain cramp when I was typing.

But yeah I know a few kats that use to work for gulf stream in Savannah.

 

[the bossman]

Where would you consider a great place for black folk in 2021. DMV?

ATL DMV DAL HOU

 

[UberEatsDriver]

If you coming from rual Mississippi with no plan ATL ain’t no come up.

If you coming from markets where the cost of living is high and you can transfer your skills/resume down to ATL it’s not hard to proper down there at all. You go from rented a 2 bedroom apartment for $2300 to a mortgage on a single family house for $1400 it’s easy math.

It could be the opposite. A person from rural Mississippi might see it as a come up for opportunity reasons if they are in a career field.

One mistake people from high cost of living places make is that they ignore the fact that will get paid less so that $1400 mortgage isn’t an automatic advantage if you aren’t making the money to cover it easily. Know plenty of people who are paying mortgage with no savings.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Yeah, I'm just saying how I viewed it from my life experiences.

Before I moved to Cali, I drove everywhere.

If I wanted to go to NYC, I drove, if I wanted to go to DC, I drove, if I wanted to go to NC, I drove.

That was the extent of my travels back then, besides living in Hawaii for a year when I was too young to remember.

I'm speaking from an old nikka perspective too.

Everything I'm saying is from a mid 90s to mid 00s perspective.

I’m on your side here. I love this about the east coast. The west coast everything felt far.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Isn’t a bullet train concept suppose to be in the infrastructure deal. If so you can work in ATL and live somewhere like South Carolina

I didn’t know the ATL was the plan I thought it was NYC - DC, Houston to Dallas and LA-SF-Vegas.


Well it should be all over and yes the bullet train would drop down the cost of living

 

[BigMan]

Where would you consider a great place for black folk in 2021. DMV?

Hampton roads is a pretty coo area

what’s your career

 

[BigMan]

I didn’t know the ATL was the plan I thought it was NYC - DC, Houston to Dallas and LA-SF-Vegas.


Well it should be all over and yes the bullet train would drop down the cost of living

Florida too

 

[tuckgod]

Getting my IT experience under my belt right now in Atlanta and within 5 years I am relocating somewhere else. I’m around 20 dollars an hour here so I know once I have 5-6 years more experience I can command 60-70k in somewhere like Seattle or something, or even somewhere else

Isnt 60-70k somewhere like Seattle about the same as 45k in Atlanta?

Sounds like you’re hustling backwards if that’s your 5 year plan breh.

Shoot for 6 figures if you’re going out West.