"Atlanta will eat you up. You sure you still want to move here?"
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AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
I would respectfully disagree. I grew up in that Atlanta and Atlanta now is as real as the Atlanta in 1990 or 1980. Things change, perspective changes but people forget how things really were. People forget how bad the crime and homicide rate was during that time. Drugs really running through the city and destroying lives and communities. In the 90s we had widespread corruption under Mayor Campbell and City Hall. We still had major public housing throughout the city up until the early 2000s. There were alotta issues during that time in Atlanta that people gloss over b/c we romanticize the 90s. Truth is that Atlanta has always been a progressive city for black people and a city seen as a place of opportunity and growth. The fight now is to make sure that the promise and hope of Atlanta continues for the next generation and the generations after that
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
Get involved with Atlanta Black Tech, Technologists of Color. They have Slack channels as well. Check out Startup Atlanta. Go to events (virtual and in person), network. Follow up. Bring something unique to the conversation and again, follow up. I was on a similar path to your cousin 3 years ago and I started getting into the tech space and it was the best decision I ever made, but you gotta be willing to reach out to people, make relationships and be uncomfortable putting yourself out there like that
Pegasus Jackson
Trump's Amerikkka
It's more so nostalgia on my end. The days when the city was 24/7. Clubs closed at 4. Cruising down peachtree on a Saturday night. Going to Nikki's. Going to the arcade in the underground. Driving down Stewart ave screaming at the hookers. The Buckhead party district that was wild as fukk. Shopping at Coconuts in Greenbriar. Precious memories.
Laidbackman
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Do you think the transplants made things worst?
Pegasus Jackson
Trump's Amerikkka
The fact that you can't buy a house in the heart of the hood for less than 300k made it worse.
Laidbackman
All Star
So I guess you're saying not necessarily.
Pegasus Jackson
Trump's Amerikkka
That's a byproduct of "transplants" and gentrification. You couldn't sell no goddamn house in Mechanicsville for 300k in 1994.
networking doesn't mean shyt if no one has shyt
Laidbackman
All Star
If the transplants are making it worst, it's probably the ones coming down with no plan, not the ones buying up properties that were too expensive where they moved from. These are the transplants who are bringing most of the money. The hate got so bad, that now I hear some blaming transplants for rising prices on other things in ATL, just because they moved here and bought a new home. That's a new one on me. If they didn't exactly say that, then they said something like the natives couldn't buy any new homes, because the transplants are driving up prices.
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AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
No. The city has allowed gentrification, the city has allowed rising tax rates in low income communities, the city hasn’t done enough to stem crime or income disparity across Atlanta. Blaming the transplants for moving here and things being how they are is lazy and wrong
4:25
"If you an unskilled person in the small town you came from, you will still be an unskilled person in Atlanta"
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Yep, Atlanta was amazing before 96, after 96, it was still good but only if you are young and not working yet. Once you are working age, Atlanta sucked. I liked DC more and Texas a lot more
