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Linus Van Pelt
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« on: September 25, 2010, 03:58:44 PM »

So, there are two facts I don't understand. First, everyone and their uncle is moving here: all the large counties in the metro are growing like crazy. Second, some of the demographics are changing wildly: blacks are moving into the suburbs way more than anywhere else even though the city is growing too. What's going on? Everyone can't be working for Coke or CNN, and it seems a strange place to move to for "lifestyle"-type reasons.
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« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2010, 07:02:45 PM »

So, there are two facts I don't understand. First, everyone and their uncle is moving here: all the large counties in the metro are growing like crazy. Second, some of the demographics are changing wildly: blacks are moving into the suburbs way more than anywhere else even though the city is growing too. What's going on? Everyone can't be working for Coke or CNN, and it seems a strange place to move to for "lifestyle"-type reasons.

White people are moving into the City.  Atlanta is getting close to only being plurality Black now, as Blacks are moving out of the city and into the Suburbs, and White Suburbanites are moving into the Exurbs.
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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2010, 08:39:06 PM »

Per wikipedia: "Atlanta has the country's fourth-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies (although UPS, Home Depot, and Newell Rubbermaid are not within its city limits) and more than 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have business operations in the metropolitan area"
It's also a cheap place to live compared to most big city business towns. You can easily get a McMansion for less than a one bedroom apt in New York.
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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2010, 05:31:25 AM »

They seem to be doing something right:

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« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2010, 08:40:05 AM »

Atlanta's airline connections make it easy for big companies to relocate there from elsewhere in addition to the other advantages listed.
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