1 Since my wife and I moved to Atlanta (with much trepidation) from Denver, CO, we have discovered our worst fears. Atlanta is an overcrowded, dirty, boring, suburnanit, politically correct hole. There is little to the downtown aside from a few parks crowded with the homeless and a city government whose response is for the mayor to grandstand for what she thinks is her constituency by handing out her business card to these troubled souls. The downtown is increasingly an empty vessel during the evening and Buckhead in the outer sections of the city (truly is little more than another suburb) is a completely overated dirty, non-pedestrian friendly quadrant filled with various riff raff and overpriced restaurants. The inhabitants of Atlanta are generally rude and lacking in any sense of civility as evidences by their driving skills. Truly this is the only city (including Chicago) that I have been in where if a light is out at an intersection cannot seem to grasp the concept of an orderly progression for each direction of travel to traverse the intersection. The climate, being warmer than that where the majority of northern transients come from is the only draw (as there is no southern drawl left in ATL) to the city. But of course Northeasterners love anything that is warmer and is not NY, NJ or Philadelphia, the hell holes from which they leave. All in all in you wish to live in the south, choose Charlotte, Nashville etc. not atlanta.