Atlanta All The Way
“We just couldn’t do it anymore,” said Public-relations executive Scott Merritt, 35, who, along with his teacher wife and two kids, left New York for more-affordable Atlanta. “Eventually we had to say enough was enough. It was just no way to live, and I could see no way out.” Merritt, who made an “above average”…
“We just couldn’t do it anymore,” said Public-relations executive Scott Merritt, 35, who, along with his teacher wife and two kids, left New York for more-affordable Atlanta. “Eventually we had to say enough was enough. It was just no way to live, and I could see no way out.” Merritt, who made an “above average” salary as a PR exec, and his family joined an estimated 40,000 New Yorkers who opted for the warmer, and more affordable, climes of Atlanta between 2000 and 2005. [NY Post]
“Familiar enough not to make the mistake of spending three years there.”
Snap!
I’d take Atlanta any day over…most parts of L.I., Manhattan and Ohio – speaking of other places to live. Brooklyn is definitely overrated and overpriced and headed in the direction of a soul-less non-descript inburb..note the nasty new restaurants popping up all over the place?
So Whats wrong with driving everywhere and NOT coming home to live in a box that costs $550,000? (Talk about retards)
I particularly don’t like the south either …too slow. Meth addicts living right next door and everybody ignoring them.
“I lived in Atlanta for three years–how familiar with the city are you?”
Familiar enough not to make the mistake of spending three years there.
But I kid, I kid…
But but but they said poplulation would be 9M by 2030 and everybody wants to live here.
***Bid half off peak comps***
Exactly, 11201. Long Island makes these people “New Yorkers” the way Loganville makes them “Atlanta” transplants. Way to go, NY Post.
research poorly OFTEN.
Hey SnarkSlope,
I lived in Atlanta for three years–how familiar with the city are you?
The article clearly states that they live in the suburb of LOGANVILLE. Yes, the city of Atlanta is largely black, but no one considers Loganville, a suburb 50 miles outside the city limits, a part of Atlanta (city).
Loganville (again, where the family Merritts live) is 92% white.
Research poorly much, SnarkSlope?
> White and overweight. They’ll fit right in.
– http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/1304000.html
Atlanta (city), Georgia
Black persons, percent, 2000: 61.4%
Don’t get out much, 11201?
As usual, bad, skewed reporting from a NYC daily. These people are not “New Yorkers” they’re from Long Island and yes, the property taxes on Long Island are too high especially for somebody who wants a 4 BR house with a swimming pool for only $275K. These people just made the worst investment they could make. The far suburbs of Atlanta are worthless. They should have bought a smaller, 2BR or 3BR condo in a much better location. As for Blackstoner saying New Yorkers have all their worth in their house, well uh, looking at their income, so do these people. Difference is they won’t see any return on the investment in the far suburbs of Atlanta even over a long period of time.
If you must live in the South, Raleigh/Durham has a good job market and economy, always rates high on best places to live, and has more affordable historic houses centrally located. In Atlanta, unless you’re wealthy enough to live inside Atlanta in one of the better neighborhoods (which costs as much as buying a condo or brownstone in Brooklyn if not Manhattan) it’s just not worth it because the commute from the suburbs is a nightmare. A full 1.5-2 hours each way as somebody said.