Wow. Has this blogger even BEEN to Atlanta before / after / during the olympics? Honestly, I don't believe so. Let me give you the real story.

Atlanta was beautiful during the olympics. The city was packed with people, and everything was clean. "Underground Atlanta" was a shopping district that was revived for the olympics, and it was a hot hangout spot during the events.

Now fast forward to today... The neighborhood with the coke museum and aquarium, which the author references, is covered with homeless people and litter. It's literally a pretty unsafe place to hang out. The "underground atlanta" shopping mall is in complete disrepair. Most of the cute restaurants that used to be there are now closed down. Instead, this "underground" mall conveniently houses many homeless.

As far as Buckhead being nice, it certainly is, but to me that's an example of people leaving the city of Atlanta because of how bad it has gotten, and turning a cute suburb into its own mini-city. People in the city have moved farther and farther away from the city center, giving Atlanta some of the worst traffic in the USA.

Seriously - there is nothing charming about Atlanta anymore. If you're going to visit, you can certainly have a nice weekend there w/ a few tourist attractions (coke museum, MLK's old house, aquarium, etc), but you won't want to spend much time in the city - that's for sure.

I think it's almost funny that the author highlights how the city has progressed since the olympics, because in the opinion of myself and most of my peers, the olympics was the turning point for the city, and it has been worse off ever since.

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