Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum, Atlanta

Advantages: American lifestyle
Disadvantages: You'll put on weight rapidly

...of food on the big plate (plus the giant glass of ice tea) would be enough to feed a family of three! ...This is America! Atlanta is the state capital of Georgia. It is famous for the epic 'Gone With The Wind', Martin Luther King Jr., former president Jimmy Carter, Olympics 1996, CNN and Coca-Cola. A local pharmacist developed Coca-Cola originally as a headache remedy some 115 years ago. There is a modern museum 'The World of Coca-Cola' situated near Peachtree Street (Atlanta's high street). Another main attraction is the Stone Mountain. It is the world's largest exposed granite mountain. A sculpture of three giant figures of civil war heroes is carved on the rock face of the mountain. We climbed to the top of the mountain via a large cable car, and had very spectacular views around the mountain. If you want a taster for American... Read review

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Advantages: Housing and land super-affordable, great shopping, restaurants, and cultural opportunities, theatre, museums, sports, international airport, rapid transit rail system
Disadvantages: traffic is terrible, easy to get lost

...Not only is Atlanta often 95 degrees farenheit in the shade in summer months, but it's one HOT city for career opportunities, night-life, unbelievably affordable housing on large lots of land compared to any other city in the world, and great people to meet. Atlanta is home to the famous baseball team, the Atlanta Braves. Good luck finding a ticket these days! We have many other professional sports teams, major musical concerts, a wonderful symphony, ballet and opera of our very own as well as a hopping theatre scene. In the metro Atlanta area, you can buy a very nice, large home on a full acre of wooded land for $180,000 easy. The newer homes are being built on much smaller lots but there are still an abundance of homes built in the 1970's and 80's that have lots of land, trees and space galore. This is the time to move here... Read review

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Advantages: Great weather, lots of trees, culture diversity, nice houses and affordable
Disadvantages: Over speeding on highways, can get pretty dry atimes

...For some of you looking to settle down in a city that is metropolitan and yet affordable, then this is one option you shouldn't overlook. Normally, we think of cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and the rest as real metro cities and true they are. But Atlanta, not having perhaps half of the skyscrapers these other cities have is a big contender for the person that wants to have a bit of both urban and sub-urban worlds in one city. My first surprise was when we were approaching touch down. there being so much haze in the air I could not see the city skyline from a distance, but what was the real surprise was the amount of forest scattered across the city. Yes forest, not just trees. Atlanta is a heavily wooded city. It's a bit hard to describe cos I've not encountered a city with so much greenery. The airport is said... Read review

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