Question Anyone from the Atlanta area??

Anyone from the Atlanta area??

Might be taking a job near there and need some info on the place??

What would you like to know?

I was in the North Perimeter area (Norcross, mostly, with a few months in Alpharetta) for about six years, and while I don't know the city proper very well (I really just don't get out much, even when I am actually employed and have the money to do so), I can give you what advice I can. I haven't really been in Atlanta for the past two years, though, so I won't be able to say much about any recent developments (I'm currently in Athens, for complicated familial reasons, and I am still holding out hope of someday ending my exile here and returning to NorCal - though my family are deeply against it, because they know that if I do, I will refuse to go more than 100 miles away from Sather Gate ever again).

However, my understanding is that E. E. Nalley is an Atlanta native (or rather, a Kennesaw native IIRC, but very familiar with Atlanta), and would be probably the best one to answer these questions. I am pretty sure that there is at least one other person in the group who lives or has lived there as well.

What do you need to know?

Thanks all I am hitting up E.E. for some questions in PM right now

I am in Socal so not too many blazes down here right now

But the work is getting spoty and the TAXES are getting worse,,,then add all the new silly laws that hinder doing anything.
Cali has lost that 'fun' it had decades ago and went all 'nanny' state

But most of all, if the housing is priced at what I skimmed for the area?
I can move, pay off the new home and have A LOT of leftover cash to my name.

then add the job pays well for even LA standards!

House prices in California, talk about selling an arm and a leg.
Had a freind all through elementary school, his Dads work took them to California NEa LA, the House was 7 figures and half the size of there home thay had in Houston.
Then they moved back, while I was in High School, He missed Cali all the Surfing, Sun, and women in bakinis. But when his Dad sold htere house to move back. They got a Home here for just in the Six figures that was 3 times bigger than there one in California with 5 acres of property, and a whole lot left over. HIs dad put money into college funds for my friend and his 2 sisters, and skill had a lot left for early retirement.
\If h=you are selling a home there yea I see you having a lot left over for emergencies and etc...

yep I know land cost money around here in LA!!!

If I do move and I really want to!
I will lose a mortgage 100% paid off
have over 100,000 in cash from the sale
my 401k cashes out because I left the state and biz I was in
Sales tax drops from 9.50 to 7%
income tax drops from 9.3 to 6%
and housing tax is more than cut in half!
plus gas price drops a full 1$

then add all the 'nanny' laws I leave behind, that just kill having fun!
Now you and I know why California is losing BIG businesses everyday as they move out

lighttech wrote: y
Now you and I know why California is losing BIG businesses everyday as they move out

Don't you mean "The People's Republic of California"? That's the way most Texans think of that state.

elrodw wrote:

lighttech wrote: y
Now you and I know why California is losing BIG businesses everyday as they move out

Don't you mean "The People's Republic of California"? That's the way most Texans think of that state.

or as we call it that 'vote' a certain way here---the minority

Comiefornia

If this job does not work out--I am still most likely moving!




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lighttech wrote:

elrodw wrote:

lighttech wrote: y
Now you and I know why California is losing BIG businesses everyday as they move out

Don't you mean "The People's Republic of California"? That's the way most Texans think of that state.

or as we call it that 'vote' a certain way here---the minority

Comiefornia

If this job does not work out--I am still most likely moving!




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If you are from California you need to look up the State of Jefferson. it is a big chunk of northern Cali that has been trying to become the 51st state for a while.

The funny part is, the majority of the state is fairly conservative, especially the Imperial Valley. It's just that there are two very decidedly not conservative urban centers along the coast, one to the north (basically everything from Humboldt down to Santa Cruz) and one to the south (roughly from Pasadena to the southern outskirts of LA).

Mind you, a large part of the regulation comes from the conservative regions, especially those that are basically protectionist measures applying to mega-agribusiness - the various water regulations meant to prioritize irrigation, the restrictions on fresh dairy products coming from outside of Cali, the relaxing of immigration enforcement (to ensure that there is a constant, fresh supply of migrant labor - what, you thought that the immigrant populations in LA and SF had any political clout at all?) and so forth. Oh, and a lot of the left-leaning stuff is pushback against the big stick agri-business wields in the state, though it isn't as if my adopted hometown of Berzerkeley needs an excuse for weird political posturing (though honestly most of it is posturing, and when push comes to shove most of the locals won't put themselves out of their comfort zones just because they believe something).

Also, San Francisco - and more to the point, Silly Valley - has a big Libertarian contingent, though they don't really have a lot of impact on the actual politics because, well, the whole point of Libertarianism is a disdain for political bullshit, so they tend not to want to get their hands dirty with things like actually, you know, voting.

As for my own politics, I choose to keep my own counsel on the subject, but the main gist of my views is that politics as we see it is basically a show put on for the people - and for the politicians themselves - meant to keep everyone's hormonal need for an Alpha satisfied. In any large society - more than, say, half a million people - the real form of government is Tabularchy, rule by statistical analysis. The real decisions are made by armies of data collectors and mid-level bureaucrats, most of whom don't realize that their actions are part of making decisions. Individual politicians - or even legislative bodies - have no more input on the process than individual atoms in a gas do on that gas's pressure and temperature. This isn't something anyone can do anything about; it is just the nature of large societies. However, the delusion that the leadershit (not a misspelling) is doing things is also inevitable, because that's how the human brain works - it is the mental equivalent of an optical illusion created by the focal blind spot in the retina.

This won't stop me from finding entertainment in the sheer stupidity of someone like Citizen Cave, however ("We shall build a wall - out of combustible lemons!"). I'm as caught up in the delusion as everyone else.

Tabularchy!

Nice concept.

Will need chewing over...

TYVM.