At the Gorgia Tech career fair on Monday I ran into ex-colleague and Austonian Stormin' Norman. He had with him a colleague who prefaced what I imagine was going to be some anti-Atlanta comment with with the question:"Neither of you are from Atlanta, Right?". When I  disrupted her flow, saying that I was, she didn't hide her shock and distaste, pausing for a second to reformulate/choke down her intended statement, and responded, "Well,  I could never imagine living here".     All of this without any sort of baiting by me. In fact we hadn't really said a word to each other.

"Why is that" I asked.

She said that she felt it was too "racially divided'.   She is a women with clear latino heritage. (Reads: she looked mexican). I asked her what that means, and she didn't  have an answer. I asked her where in Austin she had even seen a black person, and she  didn't have an answer.   Austin has a huge mexican population judging by the quality of the Mexican food and the proximity to the border,  but I don't come accross it in the course of my day, and half the taco stands I visit are owned by rich white entrepreneurs.  What does "racially divided" mean?   I don't know.  Housing patterns?Atlanta beats out LA and new York, and I bet if Austin was big enough Atlanta would beat it too.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/29/most_segregated_cities


I showed some mercy and asked her to give me another reason she couldnt' live in atlanta. She said the weather.   We are three weeks into some of the best fall weather I have ever lived in. Spring and Fall in Atlanta are long and magnificant. Fall in Austin is ...summer.  If it were a poker hand we would say that Austin is dominated.

So my question is, where do people get this shit? I mean really. Atlanta needs some better PR. Gonna start an ATLAttackWatch.com