Few big cities in this country are desirable any more, in my opinion. As a Miami friend as aptly put it, when out of state people would comment, "Miami, that's the deep south, isn't it?", he would reply, "No, it's more like South America." If you're not Cuban, it's not the place to be. They don't even speak English in many stores there.
Atlanta is a bad memory for me. I was there on an extended visit, with an intention of making a decision about living there. I stayed in a sort of budget business man weekly hotel. When I complained about the neighbor's noise and incessant door slamming from below, I was treated like absolute garbage, told to leave, and the manager had an off-duty female police officer from Norcross, who lived there, threaten and intimidate me to the point that he had here stand outside, across from my room, making intimidating postures. I did take care of her; when I followed up with the Norcross Police superintendant as to her using a police uniform when not on duty for imtimidation purposes.
I truly got the feeling that as a "northerner", I was not welcome. I also found many of the transplants in Atlanta highly stuffy and conceited. Not a place I would move to.
