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

[tuckgod]

Damn

It was like that, breh.

I haven't been out there in damn near 13 years now, but back then (90's - early 00s) the city stayed open all night like NYC so if you're coming from some small town you're going to get turned out if you're not super focused.

And the baddest bytch in her little town is mad regular in Atlanta so the chicks that went there thinking they would end up in the industry some kind of way found out real quick what their true value was.

Big fish in small pond turned small fish in big pond type shyt.

 

[Apollo Creed]

my uncle moved out there in the early 90s with no real skills. he worked retail and loved it while he was young. years later his longtime girlfriend brought him back to arizona broke and with parkinsons (she just dropped him off and went back home to ATL). that part about the skills is very important. you are better off staying around family if you are going to be the working poor than to be thousands of miles away around people who dont love you that much.

atlanta changed after 96

 

[The Fade]

Gotta be cliqued in to thrive here if you come here with nothing

 

[buzzkill]

yeah this city aint easy to make it in. I worked hella terrible jobs when i moved here until i got into my career

 

[Atlrocafella]

Atlanta is FULL and expensive. Stay away.

 

[Gunz&Butta]

I would feast in ATL. Im coming in December.

 

[NZA]

atlanta changed after 96

in what ways?

 

[Doobie Doo]

You can get money and bad bytches in any city, its all about what you ARE doing
no city is gonna magically put you on, its up to you

IT skills can get a job in every region of the country

 

[Apollo Creed]

in what ways?

it became a different city. What you see now is rooted in that.

 

[Originalman]

I know a lot who this is true about. Atlanta has a huge wealth disparity if you’re not moving there to work a specific field, you will catch hell trying to get an apartment. It’s a lot of jobs in the service

If you trying to move to that area I would recommend an up and coming city that is rapidly expanding like Huntsville. They ain’t lying when they say Atlanta is full. And it’s only getting worse because besides blacks, a bunch of other minorities are moving there in droves and changing the demographics of the region. The south Asians in north Atl and Alpharetta are like the Cubans of Miami.

Real talk Huntsville is a hell of a move to flip your career. They be begging folks to live there especially if you in education, engineering or manufacturing.

The real hustle is if you skilled go to Huntsville get a high ranking gig then parlay that to a big time job where you left from.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Glad I aint fall for the okie doke...back in the day nikkas told me Atlanta was the land of milk and honey....money and bad bytches were just waiting for me..it would be like shooting fish in a barrel

Same here.. had a friend try to convince me to take a job taking pictures of people going through the Ga aquarium. I’m so glad I didn’t do that shyt I have a way better chance to get a job there in my field now but I’m not ready. Charlotte has been good to me Now if they offer unGodly amounts of money though I’m gone

 

[MoveForward]

atlanta changed after 96

After the Olympics the city was never the same.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Same here.. had a friend try to convince me to take a job taking pictures of people going through the Ga aquarium. I’m so glad I didn’t do that shyt I have a way better chance to get a job there in my field now but I’m not ready. Charlotte has been good to me Now if they offer unGodly amounts of money though I’m gone

salaries wont be that diff from Charlotte to ATL. ATL pass less due to COL hence why companies set up shop now

 

[Prynce]

I know a lot who this is true about. Atlanta has a huge wealth disparity if you’re not moving there to work a specific field, you will catch hell trying to get an apartment. It’s a lot of jobs in the service

If you trying to move to that area I would recommend an up and coming city that is rapidly expanding like Huntsville. They ain’t lying when they say Atlanta is full. And it’s only getting worse because besides blacks, a bunch of other minorities are moving there in droves and changing the demographics of the region. The south Asians in north Atl and Alpharetta are like the Cubans of Miami.

Lmaoo south Asian not a factor

 

[Originalman]

Damn

Atlanta economy isn't diverse like Dallas or Seattle and some other places. Folks still hurting from 2008.

One old brotha who is my mentor said he got laid off in 2008 while in atlanta and took a job in Huntsville and his wife and kids would stay in Atlanta while he would work and come home for the weekends.

A lot of engineers I went to college with left Atlanta and came to dallas cause the pay is better out here than Atlanta.