City Information Insider

I think that this city is really interesting.  I spent two weeks here and loved it.  I have tons and I mean tons of friends here so I was shown around to a lot of places.  I went in March and believe it or not the second day I was here we got dumped on by snow.  You could barely see outside.  It melted the next day though.  Don’t worry, this thing only happens once every seven to eight years.

Here is the insider information about the city:

City Make Up…

Atlanta is called the “Black Mecca” by some and I see now where they get it.  This city is really black and they do really well here.  This is the only city in America where a “black neighborhood” and “ghetto” have no connotation with each other.  I mean  the whole south side of Atlanta is 0ne big ghetto and most of it is actually black but the whole east side including the suburbs like Snellville and Conyers are mostly black and look fantastic.  They also have some older black neighborhoods are very well to do.  I am told that you can find this in some parts Washington, D.C. but not to this extent. 

Most of the whites live in the north side of town.  Buckhead is the “rich” neighborhood.  And real quick I want to go into detail of what I mean by that.  In  every city there are many well to do neighborhoods.  Many of them are in the surrounding cookie cutter McMansions that dot every town.  But there is always one and I do mean one neighborhood that was there first and that every prominent person of that city MUST live in if he wants to be in “the circle.”  In Houston its “River Oaks,” in Dallas its “Plano,” in Las Angelas its “Bevery Hills” in Seattle its “Queen Ann Hill.”

Atlanta sits on the bottom of the Appalachian mountains and is more hilly than most people realize.  This city literally sits on top of nothing but rolling hills.  Before I spent time here I thought it would be as flat as the rest of the southern part of the county.  Its not.  A nice change from the flat landscape that dominates Atlanta’s neighbors.