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You would be wrong. To people in the Southeast, Atlanta is IT. When I lived in New Orleans even, people talked about going to Atlanta a lot, for vacations, road trips, events, etc. Students from surrounding states --and even Texas-- are drawn to Atlanta for college, as they have many good schools in the vicinity, including Emory, Georgia Tech, Agnes Scott, and highly-regarded HBCU's like Morehouse and Spelman. Dallas and Houston can't compete with that. Some had bounced around between Miami, New Orleans, and Atlanta during and after college. When I lived in New Orleans, Texas was never on their radar.
when it comes to colleges i don't think Texans are flocking to Atlanta. we have Rice University, the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, Southern Methodist University, Texas Tech University, The University of North Texas, and several other colleges that are just as good or even better than the one's in Georgia.
As for Texas not being on the radar in New Orleans...that's a joke. most of the New Orleans population now lives in Houston and other Texas cities after katrina hit New Orleans.
Atlanta just seems so normal to me. i just don't see how they have an edge over the other southern cities. especially since it's not even the largest southern city. Miami, San Antonio, and New Orleans seem to have more culture and Dallas and Houston seem to have a larger economy and larger population. The only advantage i can think of in Atlanta's favor is the airport. i know Atlanta has alot of great things going for it but so do all the other southern cities.
yea but houston has nasa, oil, more fortune 500 companies, more people. its not envy its reality. Atlanta's cool and could definitley qualify as the capital of the south, but Houstons got it goin on too.
yea but houston has nasa, oil, more fortune 500 companies, more people. its not envy its reality. Atlanta's cool and could definitley qualify as the capital of the south, but Houstons got it goin on too.
man, these houston posters have atlanta envy and seem to rip on chicago a lot...just sayin...that's all.
let me put it this way, if houston had the busiest airport and say...the Olympics! then they would be taken more seriously than hotlanta.
actually i think Chicago is awesome and would love to go there someday. as for Atlanta, i definitely have no envy of it. i wasn't aware that having an olympics and the busiest airport makes your city the most important. the Atlanta olympics was back in 1996, how is that relevant today? and who cares that Atlanta has the busiest airport. does that mean that the airports in Dallas, Houston, Miami, and Charlotte are irrelevant?
I'm not even sure how Chicago was brought up in this thread. its not a southern city. it seems like you have an inferiority complex about Chicago if you have to bring it up in a thread that has nothing to do with it. i'm sure there is a Chicago vs ________ thread on the forums somewhere that you can go and defend it all you want.
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