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

[Steel]

It’s really the same anywhere. Don’t move to a new city without a job or a career. Don’t move without savings.

 

[DropTopDoc]

I haven't listened but plenty of people I went to school with moved to Atlanta either for school or after graduating college.

They all swore they was never coming back and out of no bullshyt at least 30 people I can think of off top of my head, only a handful is still there and thriving.

The rest are back home and humbled.

Damn, don’t think it’s humbled to try and make it and you fall short, but i kind of get your jest

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.

Ghat damn

 

[tuckgod]

Damn, don’t think it’s humbled to try and make it and you fall short, but i kind of get your jest

Breh, you know how our people can be.

We literally had nikkas getting scholarships to the AUC schools talking down on nikkas that had to go to a state school or the military.

If you wasn't going to an AUC, A&T, Fam U, or one of the HUs, nikkas was talking big shyt.

Let you be going to Shaw, St. Aug, Norfolk State, Virginia State or some shyt...

The jokes was endless.

Then you had nikkas like me that could barely get into a community college.

We was School Dayz and Different World babies so that shyt was VERY serious.

Some made it and are doing very well.

But a lot of them big talking folks is right back here in Hampton working a regular job and going to church with their parents on Sundays just like back in the day.

I wouldn't even call it a loss, most of them are still doing very well, but we all need a little humbling sometimes to get to that next level.

 

[UpAndComing]

Breh, you know how our people can be.

We literally had nikkas getting scholarships to the AUC schools talking down on nikkas that had to go to a state school or the military.

If you wasn't going to an AUC, A&T, Fam U, or one of the HUs, nikkas was talking big shyt.

Let you be going to Shaw, St. Aug, Norfolk State, Virginia State or some shyt...

The jokes was endless.

Then you had nikkas like me that could barely get into a community college.

We was School Dayz and Different World babies so that shyt was VERY serious.

Some made it and are doing very well.

But a lot of them big talking folks is right back here in Hampton working a regular job and going to church with their parents on Sundays just like back in the day.

I wouldn't even call it a loss, most of them are still doing very well, but we all need a little humbling sometimes to get to that next level.

 

[UpAndComing]

btw the Erica classy climb chick i remember when she first started, she doing big shyt now

Also good post OP. I use to watch a youtube show with this sista on it. Think the show talked about community issues. She is true hustler. Sista is a DJ, got her a business, youtube show and other ventures.

Oh really

I started watching her since last year. She got a good podcast/show I listen to from time to time




This show I really like

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

There ain't no where in America u can't make it if u havr common sense

 

[DropTopDoc]

Breh, you know how our people can be.

We literally had nikkas getting scholarships to the AUC schools talking down on nikkas that had to go to a state school or the military.

If you wasn't going to an AUC, A&T, Fam U, or one of the HUs, nikkas was talking big shyt.

Let you be going to Shaw, St. Aug, Norfolk State, Virginia State or some shyt...

The jokes was endless.

Then you had nikkas like me that could barely get into a community college.

We was School Dayz and Different World babies so that shyt was VERY serious.

Some made it and are doing very well.

But a lot of them big talking folks is right back here in Hampton working a regular job and going to church with their parents on Sundays just like back in the day.

I wouldn't even call it a loss, most of them are still doing very well, but we all need a little humbling sometimes to get to that next level.

I get what you mean bruh, nikkas thought they was big Cheif, and had to pack up and come back , because they hit they glass ceiling

 

[tuckgod]

I get what you mean bruh, nikkas thought they was big Cheif, and had to pack up and come back , because they hit they glass ceiling

Yeah man.

That's the beautiful shyt about being from where I'm from though.

For instance, when I lived in California, I realized them nikkas could drive for a whole day and still be in California.

And in order for them to get to any other state outside of Nevada and Arizona, it was a journey.

Being from Virginia, I could be anywhere from Maine to Florida in less than a day's drive.

The entire East Coast.

So we can dip our toes in foreign waters easily and run back home if that shyt is too deep for us.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

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.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Yeah man.

That's the beautiful shyt about being from where I'm from though.

For instance, when I lived in California, I realized them nikkas could drive for a whole day and still be in California.

And in order for them to get to any other state outside of Nevada and Arizona, it was a journey.

Being from Virginia, I could be anywhere from Maine to Florida in less than a day's drive.

The entire East Coast.

So we can dip our toes in foreign waters easily and run back home if that shyt is too deep for us.

you living in California the flight from LA to the bay is like an hour, same with Phoenix and to Texas is like 3.


I’ve lived on both coasts, I’m almost never opting to drive in between hundreds of miles. East coast it’s Amtrak west coast it’s flights

 

[Human Torch]

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.

best case you transfer from a higher COL city to ATL and keep that pay. Then you really cooking

 

[CashmereThoughts]

best case you transfer from a higher COL city to ATL and keep that pay. Then you really cooking

with remote work it’s easy to do. Several of my
colleagues moved from NY to cheaper cities

 

[CW_1991]

My sister live in alpharetta. Dental hygienist manager. She doing just fine.

 

[desjardins]

This advice applies to every city.
Is this narrative of people coming to ATL with no money and no plans even true
I know people who moved there with jobs and plans .....and it wasn't quite what was hyped up to be in terms of getting rich. But that's totally different than someone moving to a major city with $35 in their pockets thinking they going be the next Jermaine Dupri

 

[tuckgod]

you living in California the flight from LA to the bay is like an hour, same with Phoenix and to Texas is like 3.


I’ve lived on both coasts, I’m almost never opting to drive in between hundreds of miles. East coast it’s Amtrak west coast it’s flights

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.