Posts Tagged ‘Atlanta’
The New York Times has a story on Atlanta’s depressed housing market. It paints a dire picture of my hometown: The reasons for Atlanta’s housing woes are both representative of the nation’s troubles and special to this former boomtown, where housing appreciated handsomely, though not to the lofty heights of Las Vegas, Miami and New [...]
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Tags: Atlanta, finance, real estate
For those of you living in the South, would you agree that the Southern charm is fading? Today’s piece in The New York Times asserts so: The Tavern at Phipps case, and a growing portfolio of examples of personal and political behavior that belies a traditional code of gentility, has scholars of Southern culture and [...]
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Tags: Atlanta, South, Southern Charm, Southern Manners
How fast can you say “Braaaains”? My hometown, is getting some nice press coverage in The New York Times… Namely, Atlanta is the zombie capital of the world! That, at least, is what Atlanta Magazine, the glossy monthly, has dubbed this Southern city [editor's note: the feature in Atlanta Magazine is really worth your time]. It’s not [...]
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Tags: Atlanta, the walking dead, zombie capital of the world, zombies
On Living in Atlanta
Atlanta has been my home for most of my life. It’s a massive, sprawling city unlike any I’ve lived or visited in the world. In the latest issue of More Intelligent Life, a correspondent for The Economist, Jon Fasman, reminisces about living in Atlanta, after having lived in New York City, Washington D.C., Hong Kong, [...]
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Tags: Atlanta, Atlantans, Georgia, ITP, OTP, traffic
