I grew up in Alabama but lived 15 years in Atlanta where I had built a business and sold it in 1998 and moved here.
After 8 years of during little I decided to go back to Atlanta and concentrate on building another business.
Atlanta is a true boom city. They say 150k people are moving there each year. The area has about 5.5mil people in it.
My business was placing accountants in jobs, staffing firm. And I knew Atlanta has a much better business climate there with all the companies moving in and workers too.
But sometimes all the logical things don’t matter when your heart is not in it so after the year’s lease was up we moved back. I am going to do my business here.
I didn’t have a negative experience other then after living here for 8 years you don’t realize how much of this life out here is taken for granted. It was just a shock going from here back to a big, hot, super busy, southern city.
California has a lot of problems but weather, natural beauty, Ocean, Mountains and good people are not part of them.