ATLANTA: Take a Small Look at Our Big City

[ShkatuIka]

Only two cities in America as far as I'm concerned are New York and Los Angeles.

[666mathew]

@1:13, the Thrashers are now in Winnipeg!

[atfatw]

atlanta sucks a crummy banal place no color, no interesting persons, mediocre so called arts you little shill! atlanta is the southern minneapolis

[nadeemstine]

I lived in Toronto and New York City. I live in Atlanta now. I love Atlanta. This is a juvenile, hard rocking city.

[puppersings]

I think Atlanta is a New York wannabe.

[primeminister87]

Atlanta doesnt live up to its hype Atlanta is nice but isnt all that plus Houston,Texas is biggest city in south and also houston more diverse

[puppersings]

@primeminister87 Texas is in the west.

[themarion23]

I Love ATL

[MATT111MARTIN]

im from atlanta and ive visited new york,chicago,and los angeles...you can put atlanta inside of new york and chicgo cus they own the tallest skyscrapers and the chrysler building in new york is taller than the bank of america building in atlanta by six feet...just amagine that near the empire state building and the sears tower it puts those two to shame in hieght...but atlanta is still a big city with amazing tall ass skyscrapers

[DaRyanMac]

I live in atlanta and like it here, but the traffic here is UNBEARABLE! Other than that, great city.

[thomsonduck]

@DaRyanMac i love your city!! i live in a small city of only 120000 people and is so so sooo bored......i would like to travel one day to Atlanta Georgia

[denzelsnipes69]

Also, Atlanta has surprisingly little nightlife for a city of its size. If you go to downtown Atlanta after six pm, everything pretty much is closed (except if one of the pro sports teams are playing). All you'll see on the streets after 6pm are homeless people and out-of-towners walking around looking for something open because they thought "Hotlanta" had places to go and things to visit.

And is Atlanta really the South's biggest city? I thought Houston and Dallas were larger.

[puppersings]

@denzelsnipes69 Texas is in the West. Not the South.

[denzelsnipes69]

@puppersings It's both in the west and the south. The southwest. That's still the south. 

[cogicman2009]

@denzelsnipes69 EXACTLY

[puppersings]

@denzelsnipes69 I'll agree there. It's in the Southwest.

[Forgetthis08]

i really want to live here

[blackbelt2909]

I personally loved Atlanta when I lived there. The people, the places, I loved it and I can't wait to go back! (I live in Bangalore now...)

@GooLife21

Well, there are definitely are more counties, because I lived in Dekalb, and I know someone from Gwinnett...

But not everyone from Atlanta is like that. It depends on the people you meet, and the locality you stayed in.

And plus, a lot of people now-a-days want to be the next big thing, not only people from Atlanta...

[BabyGirlGoddess]

I've lived in Atlanta...it's boring here.

[GooLife21]

@BabyGirlGoddess then you haven't really seen Atlanta; Atlanta is made up of nearly 16 counties and each county is different. There are endless activites and entertainment opportunities, but you have to search and want to be involved in the city.

[BabyGirlGoddess]

@GooLife21

"Atlanta is made up of nearly 16 counties and each county is different"

Not really. I've lived in four counties(Douglas, Cobb, Fulton & Clayton) and they are pretty much similar to one another.

Everyone I ran into was all about image & status and trying to be the next big thing( rapper, model, singer).Atlanta has its pros( affordable housing), but it also has its cons( alot of our schools suck, areas are segregated, traffic is horrible).

[denzelsnipes69]

@BabyGirlGoddess I live in the actual city of Atlanta and I have to say BabyGirlGoddess is right in her assessment. They call Atlanta "the city too busy to hate" but there are some serious racial hangups here. For instance, the public transit here sucks because many of the surrounding counties (namely Gwinnett and Cobb) block Atlanta's transit system from going out there. Seems they want to keep a "certain element" of people out even though most of the good jobs are located out in the burbs.

[tjsbigidea]

@denzelsnipes69 Denzel, it sounds like you are the one with the racial hangups. Gwinnett & Cobb are both very racially diverse. Check out the 2010 census reports. Maybe you need to get out of the "actual city" and visit those places before you go calling people names.

BTW, "city too busy to hate" was made up in the 1950s.

[BandoNintendo]

@GooLife21 You're completely right. I live downtown, but I don't stay here for nightlife. It's not hard to take MARTA to Midtown, and it isn't expensive to get a cab to VaHi or EAV. If people don't like Atlanta, they definitely don't know the city well enough. Atlanta doesn't give out its soul to just anyone, you have to be involved or well connected. :)

[shalscjf705]

amazing....

[si296868]

I want to be there... it is so awesome!

[demosj]

Amazing city, been there ostensibly for robotics, but ended up ignoring much of it to sightsee. Totally worth it.

[demosj]

Amazing city, been there ostensibly for robotics, but ended up ignoring much of it to sightsee. Totally worth it.

[madeofyou1]

I would like to have some commentary from a student who transitioned from a small urban Midwestern town to Emory.

[koldapu]

Totally agree with the last student. As a student from Los Angeles, I'm so amazed at how much Atlanta has. I'm still discovering new things in my 4th year!

[BluMonkiSpartan]

EMORY IS A GREAT UNIVERSITY...atl is just an attribute...ACCEPT ME EMORY!!!!