I’m thinking about moving back to the south. Specifically Atlanta. Convince me why it’s a good or bad idea

[Robbie3000]

We are full.

 

[rabbid]

Atlanta from Tucson I mean.... you just gotta prepare for certain shyt mentally. If she can find a job its a better situation. Find something in East Atlanta the further East the better IMHO. I wouldn't stay in Tucson if I didn't have a job there so from my perspective ATL is better. But I have family near Pheonix.. everytime im out there im like damn this is it? smh.

 

[ba'al]

What black folk is taking this into consideration

Vegans and Vegetarians. I rarely eat soul food nowadays if that makes me less black or a bad person I'm cool with that K.O.N.Y. I don't even know if OP is black TBH. I was looking at general pros and cons. I like food from all over tbh.

I’m not moving back to Atlanta, but just south in general. But I just want to be in a bigger city for my girl’s sake tbh since the job market here in Tucson is terrible and it will be easier for her to get a job there if I get one there.

I have experienced Atlanta traffic and forgot how crazy that shyt was. So that is something to think about.

As far as staying in Az, maybe I’ll look into trying to move to phoenix but heard that have some of the same issues as Atlanta these days. But they have a lot more black folks and probably satisfy what I’m looking for.

What bigger cities are you thinking about down south? I say stay in Arizona right now to me isn't the time to be job hopping moving across country. A lot of people been out of the job market for a while. Arizona is cool it has it's fault but to me I think it's a solid place to live.

 

[JT-Money]

New report says Atlanta lost more than 40% of its majority-Black Census tracts between 1980-2020​

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[Dr. Acula]

Vegans and Vegetarians. I rarely eat soul food nowadays if that makes me less black or a bad person I'm cool with that K.O.N.Y. I don't even know if OP is black TBH. I was looking at general pros and cons. I like food from all over tbh.

What bigger cities are you thinking about down south? I say stay in Arizona right now to me isn't the time to be job hopping moving across country. A lot of people been out of the job market for a while. Arizona is cool it has it's fault but to me I think it's a solid place to live.

Atlanta at this point would be it unless we consider Virginia the south. For Virginia it would be in the northern Virginia area.

Deep South states are no go though for me. Alabama Arkansas, Louisiana, and hell to a slightly lesser extent Florida. The cacs are too dominant in those areas for my taste.

 

[MoshpitMazi]

Tucson, Arizona

But y'all got legal weed

My momma n them originally from va lol

 

[ba'al]

Atlanta at this point would be it unless we consider Virginia the south. For Virginia it would be in the northern Virginia area.

Deep South states are no go though for me. Alabama Arkansas, Louisiana, and hell to a slightly lesser extent Florida. The cacs are too dominant in those areas for my taste.

Virginia is a cool place to work too. Traffic is terrible. Also Virginia has a higher cost of living and I believe it's also very transient. A lot of people live there for like 4 years and then relo somewhere else.

Yeah them southern states not the look right now.

I still say stay where you at TBH. But if you do want to relo Virginia and Atlanta not all that bad.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Atlanta at this point would be it unless we consider Virginia the south. For Virginia it would be in the northern Virginia area.

Deep South states are no go though for me. Alabama Arkansas, Louisiana, and hell to a slightly lesser extent Florida. The cacs are too dominant in those areas for my taste.

Ironically we ADOS need to take over those states you listed except Florida

 

[JackRoss]

Immigrants and children all over Atlanta. Wonder why it fell off? 2+2=5 though

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Buddy can’t wait to sit in traffic for 3 hours a day

 

[daemonova]

The Atlanta metro has 2 million black people only second to New York. You are not getting that type of experience in Charolette. Atlanta is not full ignore the people saying that.

 

[Richard Glidewell]

Women gone flock to you

Men gone flock to you

Which is good or bad is up to you breh...

 

[The ADD]

Too any people in Atlanta

You wouldn’t like it here

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Immigrants and children all over Atlanta. Wonder why it fell off? 2+2=5 though

That can be said about any metro area

But that level of deep poverty has been in Atlanta since its inception. Can’t blame immigrants. Techwood and university homes were some of the first public housing projects in the USA, and the income gap between those were born in Atlanta vs those who move there is astronomical. This leads to animus by the natives who resent people coming in, and say shyt like we full.

Atlanta has always thrived off migration though. Black people (mostly women migrated there because work was available. A lot of men remained in the fields and were victims of the convict labor system, so that created a space where black women always outnumbered black men.

Then Atlanta embraced being a sanctuary city for blackness. That is the primary difference between them and Birmingham. White Atlanta business owners did not divest like they did in Birmingham, they partnered up and Atlanta led the nation in requiring building contracts funded by the city to go to at least 35%minority companies. That built an economic infrastructure that other cities lacked in the south.

Atlanta also being a major educational hub increases those migration numbers. This is a personal tangent but have you wondered why there isn’t a public hbcu in Atlanta? It would do numbers and be significantly cheaper, but by keeping the prices high and the auc private, it fosters a system that promotes outside and out of state students versus serving in state in general.

I could say more but I’ll leave it at that.

 

[JackRoss]

That can be said about any metro area

But that level of deep poverty has been in Atlanta since its inception. Can’t blame immigrants. Techwood and university homes were some of the first public housing projects in the USA, and the income gap between those were born in Atlanta vs those who move there is astronomical. This leads to animus by the natives who resent people coming in, and say shyt like we full.

Atlanta has always thrived off migration though. Black people (mostly women migrated there because work was available. A lot of men remained in the fields and were victims of the convict labor system, so that created a space where black women always outnumbered black men.

Then Atlanta embraced being a sanctuary city for blackness. That is the primary difference between them and Birmingham. White Atlanta business owners did not divest like they did in Birmingham, they partnered up and Atlanta led the nation in requiring building contracts funded by the city to go to at least 35%minority companies. That built an economic infrastructure that other cities lacked in the south.

Atlanta also being a major educational hub increases those migration numbers. This is a personal tangent but have you wondered why there isn’t a public hbcu in Atlanta? It would do numbers and be significantly cheaper, but by keeping the prices high and the auc private, it fosters a system that promotes outside and out of state students versus serving in state in general.

I could say more but I’ll leave it at that.

I was bullshytting about that