Your City Sucks: Altanta
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Your City Sucks: Altanta
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Re: Your City Sucks: Altanta
#2I would love to see more of these. It's surprisingly hard to find good summaries of what life in a city is really like, especially geared toward tech people.
I'd volunteer to provide info on New Orleans, but I don't know enough to put it together myself.
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#3I would love to see more of these. It's surprisingly hard to find good summaries of what life in a city is really like, especially geared toward tech people. I'd volunteer to provide info on New Orleans, but I don't know enough to put it together myself.
I'd love to see these for a variety of cities. One way to put one together for New Orleans: reach out to other tech people you know there, and collaborate. That's what I did for Atlanta, and I got a much richer set of pros & cons than I would if I had done it independently. The little bit of time spent eliminating dupes and organizing it thematically, was well worth it. If you write one for NOLA, do let me know, and I'll link to it.
I'd also love to see one for Austin, TX. And one for NYC.
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#4I would love to see more of these. It's surprisingly hard to find good summaries of what life in a city is really like, especially geared toward tech people. I'd volunteer to provide info on New Orleans, but I don't know enough to put it together myself.
I'd love to see these for a variety of cities. One way to put one together for New Orleans: reach out to other tech people you know there, and collaborate. That's what I did for Atlanta, and I got a much richer set of pros & cons than I would if I had done it independently. The little bit of time spent eliminating dupes and organizing it thematically, was well worth it. If you write one for NOLA, do let me know, and…
David, thanks for putting it together. That was kind of my goal for sweatteamanifesto.com was this kind of information.
Atlanta is an awesome city. I'm surprised I didn't see anything about Amendment 1 in there especially since you got Lance to comment ;)
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#5I read the linked article and was immediately turned off the by narrowed minded comment under cons. Just because someone disagrees with the authors personal political ideology does not necessarily make them narrow minded. If he was simply talking about racists, bigots, and the like then you can find those in any city as large as Atlanta.
This author based his idea on the post here:
http://stu.mp/2010/11/your-city-sucks-and-so-does-mine.html
I disagree with a lot of what the author said were cons of Boulder. In a pro he says good ski slopes are 3 hours away, but a con is Denver is too far. Huh? Denver is plenty close enough to Boulder to drive to for a concert or to see a professional sporting event if that's your thing.
The cold really isn't that bad here either. Does it get cold in the winter? Yes, but it's not unbearable like Chicago or any other mid-western city. When the sun comes out it really does feel much warmer here. I was in Oregon not long ago and I had forgotten how miserable the wet cold feels even when the thermometer says it's not that cold.
Now I gotta jet because I only live 1:30 away from good snow and it's opening day at Keystone :D
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#6I read the linked article and was immediately turned off the by narrowed minded comment under cons. Just because someone disagrees with the authors personal political ideology does not necessarily make them narrow minded. If he was simply talking about racists, bigots, and the like then you can find those in any city as large as Atlanta. This author based his idea on the post here: http://stu.mp/2010/11/your-city-suc…
> I was in Oregon not long ago and I had forgotten how miserable the wet cold feels even when the thermometer says it's not that cold.
Precisely. It's the same here in Padova, where it gets humid and foggy in the winter. It usually doesn't dip too far below freezing, but the humidity chills you to the bone. Where we lived in Innsbruck, Austria was much colder, but it was less humid so it didn't sink in the way the wet cold does.
And as a native of Oregon... yeah, rain and 5 C is about the worst thing out there. You simply can't do stuff outdoors in that kind of weather and stay warm for very long, no matter how much fancy technical gear you pile on: the rain eventually soaks in and you start getting cold. Bleagh....
Re: Your City Sucks: Altanta
#7Living in Atlanta for 4 years while in college at Georgia Tech, I can basically corroborate on the opinions here (except the funding ones which I have less information about).
My overall opinion about the city is that it in a lot of ways is looking to other cities for inspiration, believing that Atlanta needs to become a major city of influence and prestige on the country and the world. With that goal, however, there's currently far too much "us-too" leading to posturing and materialism and burnout.
Underneath that exterior, of course, there are a whole ton of people in art, music (huge underground music scene on the east side), and technology (lots of engineers and young doctors) doing wonderful things. I think it'll come as a surprise to many in the city that should that side of its culture ever take hold that they might have a chance of actually developing a unique city identity.
I'll also reiterate the point that Atlanta feels like a collection of unconnected neighborhoods instead of a real city. The place was burned down twice in history and rebuilt ostentatiously under the influence of zero central planning. Roads meander oddly and there's a demand for a car given the inadequate public transport MARTA provides. Traffic on the major in-city highway, which is a perpetually under construction connector between two major out of city highways, is almost always a parking lot and that spills into the city making rush hours tricky at best. I managed to bike everywhere which is adequate but not immediately safe. It can also be a bear to have to go 15 miles up and down hills to get to your favorite bar or a concert.
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#8Altanta?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to see these for a variety of cities. One way to put one together for New Orleans: reach out to other tech people you know there, and collaborate. That's what I did for Atlanta, and I got a much richer set of pros & cons than I would if I had done it independently. The little bit of time spent eliminating dupes and organizing it thematically, was well worth it. If you write one for NOLA, do let me know, and…
David, thanks for putting it together. That was kind of my goal for sweatteamanifesto.com was this kind of information. Atlanta is an awesome city. I'm surprised I didn't see anything about Amendment 1 in there especially since you got Lance to comment ;)
Yeah, I was surprised about that, too! But a fun mini-project, and shows what banding together can do. Perhaps the best result is writing that post got me to surface from a ton of work I've been doing, and get onto HN! I can pretty quickly tell that there are some awesome people here.
Re: Your City Sucks: Altanta
#10I read the linked article and was immediately turned off the by narrowed minded comment under cons. Just because someone disagrees with the authors personal political ideology does not necessarily make them narrow minded. If he was simply talking about racists, bigots, and the like then you can find those in any city as large as Atlanta. This author based his idea on the post here: http://stu.mp/2010/11/your-city-suc…
> I was in Oregon not long ago and I had forgotten how miserable the wet cold feels even when the thermometer says it's not that cold. Precisely. It's the same here in Padova, where it gets humid and foggy in the winter. It usually doesn't dip too far below freezing, but the humidity chills you to the bone. Where we lived in Innsbruck, Austria was much colder, but it was less humid so it didn't sink in the way the we…
I've always wondered about that - to me -10C at ~1000m on a ski slope in Scotland often feels much colder than -35C at ~4000m in the Alps.
I've always assumed it was something to do with the humidity.