[hehheh]

How's the political climate? It doesn't look so great from my initial Googling: Georgia is one of the states suing over the transgender bathroom issue. Per Wikipedia Georgia doesn't include sexual orientation in their laws against employer discrimination. Anything else folks from SF might be concerned about?

[s_baby]

Atlanta has the 3rd largest LGBT population behind SF/Seattle and is pretty diverse in general. It's the other parts of Georgia that can seem backwards. Same goes for North Carolina. A person from SF would feel at home in Asheville or Raleigh despite everything going on in the news.

[ethbro]

As the snark goes "the worst thing about Atlanta is that it's in Georgia."

The rest of the state also has a proud tradition of hating public transit and attempting to defund MARTA (public rail & bus transit) in various ways. Punchline: no operational funding from state, but state historically limited how MARTA could spend its own sales tax revenue on operations. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Atlanta_Rapid_Tra... and http://saportareport.com/a-marta-story-why-the-state-never-a... for some hilarious political hijinks.

Cobb County (immediately west of the city) also (a) is unwilling to contribute to MARTA, (b) has a terrible traffic problem, (c) is currently burning money to build an overpass over 30 miles of existing interstate to solve the problem forever (see: http://www.ajc.com/news/local/mile-reversible-toll-lane-what... ), & (d) refuses to even consider rail.

[dodders]

Do you have a source for that?

From wikipedia [1] Atlanta has the 3rd largest percentage, but it's 11th for total population. Admittedly those figures are for 2005, but I wouldn't expect Atlanta to make up that much on the top 3 in the last 10 years?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...

[s_baby]

I meant density not total population.

[wil421]

California is also one of the states being sued [0]. You obviously don't know much about Atlanta but seem to know a lot about Georgia by browsing wkikipedia. Our LGBT community is one of the largest in the US.

California probably has more backwards people than Georgia fighting against stuff like this.

[0]http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/26/california-tra...

[MrMullen]

Because our population is 4 times larger.

[tedunangst]

That's a peculiar reply. Like it's ok to have bigots, as long as there's lots of them?

[MrMullen]

No, but even if California's BPC (Bigot Per Capita) was half of Georgia's, we would still have twice as many Bigots as Georgia.

[jameskegel]

Your response comes off aggressive, and I think that detracts from the validity of your comment.

[drakonandor]

Does shutting down nonsense posts really require perfect civility in the reply?

It's the same pattern I see often here... made up story incoming. The original person who spouts nonsense is never hold to account, especially if what they're saying fits with the status quo.

Person1: Trump is literally a lizard person!

> Person2: You're an idiot, and here are some facts that show he's not.

> > Person3: Whoa whoa, you're probably right but be civil!

[wil421]

If you want to see aggressive comments check out Reddit or YouTube.

It was not my intention. The parent did a quick Wikipedia search and came to the conclusion all of Georgia hates LGBT, better not move there. It's offensive to me as a native.

[pjlegato]

That's irrational. The comment's validity is logically unrelated to how aggressively it was delivered.

[samsolomon]

Atlanta is very different from the rest of the state. The city has people with pretty diverse views on things and is incredibly accepting when it comes to social issues.

[chatmasta]

You mean is it a giant bubble where everyone shares the same liberal views, reinforces each other, and ostracizes any dissenting opinions?

[pjlegato]

Moreover, ostracizes any dissenting opinions while simultaneously loudly trumpeting the value of tolerance for diversity.

[lgleason]

Have witnessed this in Atlanta......