I program in Buckhead on the the northside of Atlanta. If you are from here it is a great place. Basically almost nobody is from here so one thing in common everyone has is how long ago their family moved here.
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#12I live in Atlanta. The number one thing for me is this: "Traffic can be horrendous, especially for those who live outside the city but work downtown." Other than that, it's not a bad place to live, if you're just working a job.
For startups, there isn't anywhere near the investor community you'd find in other cities, especially when compared to SV. For instance, Atlanta's Shotput Ventures funded one company in 2010, but Y Combinator funded dozens.
However, if you want to work for a Fortune 500 company, and have the sense to live near where you work, Atlanta can be wonderful. You can find all kinds of places that have tech shops or even their corp headquarters in town and probably a cheap house, too.
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#13Earlier 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 ;)
Amendment one is just a symptom. With that your should be able to figure out one of my cons.
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#14Maybe someone can edit the headline to correct the spelling? Thanks.
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#15The narrow minded comment made me chuckle. I no longer surprised by how myopic certain people can be. In my personal experience moving between Chicago, Appalachia, LA and now deep in the rural heart of Texas is that "broad mindeded" people (especially those in larger cities) often overestimate their own tolerance, and see no reason to be tolerant of, interested in understanding the rural or southern culture within their own country, and have a profoundly limited, almost cartoonish understanding of the motivations, predjudices and attitudes of the same. I remember with particular humor a roadtrip with people that I had worked with in some rough areas of Chicago to Lvingston, TN. During the trip a couple of the group got into a discussion without every having stepped from the van about how backward and prejudiced the people in the area were.
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#16I am already over the "Your X sucks" articles and we've only just gotten started. The title is so irrelevantly offensive (since it has little to do with the content).
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#17have lived and hacked in metro/downtown Atlanta my entire adult life (however decently well traveled inside and outside the US), I think the emphasis on traffic being horrible cannot be understated. I would love to see a large scale study of Atlanta residents' overall perception of Atlanta grouped by how many miles they drive per week avg. It is an amazing city provided you are within walking distance of your destination between the hours of 7am and 7pm weekdays.
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#18The narrow minded comment made me chuckle. I no longer surprised by how myopic certain people can be. In my personal experience moving between Chicago, Appalachia, LA and now deep in the rural heart of Texas is that "broad mindeded" people (especially those in larger cities) often overestimate their own tolerance, and see no reason to be tolerant of, interested in understanding the rural or southern culture within th…
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#19Altanta?
Not sure why you're getting piled on; the name is misspelled in the headline.
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#20The narrow minded comment made me chuckle. I no longer surprised by how myopic certain people can be. In my personal experience moving between Chicago, Appalachia, LA and now deep in the rural heart of Texas is that "broad mindeded" people (especially those in larger cities) often overestimate their own tolerance, and see no reason to be tolerant of, interested in understanding the rural or southern culture within th…
I think you're so right about that. I can definitely imagine just about all of us overestimate our own tolerance. Something to definitely consider. I recently had a chance to see the Dalai Lama during his visit to Atlanta, and he talked a lot about the benefits to us of actively practicing compassion. Something that probably most of us, including me, don't do enough of day to day.