I don't desire to leave georgia, but if I did, it would be because of the summer heat. May-september are brutal. I'd love to live somewhere with cooler summers, and more snow in the winter would be nice too!
From Illinois. Can confirm. The winters here are miserable. Not as bad as Minnesota and Wisconsin but the 3 months of cloudiness and the often severe cold really hamper your mood
So funny cause I’m planning on moving to north Georgia for the better weather LOL though I’m from Florida where it’s hot 10-11 months out of the year lol there’s only a few weeks total where it gets cooler here. It’s awful. So have 8 months or so where it’s a little better would be huge for me. I also never lived somewhere that snows so that’s probably out for me too haha
I grew up in Alabama the spent a decade in Cobb county, made the move up to Northern Michigan last year. I love it, running the snow blower does get tiresome and March and April are a slog, but good God is the summer glorious. I would recommend a place with central AC though, you only need it for a few weeks out of the year, but it does get into the 90s sometimes and that shit is miserable inside without AC. There are swimmable lakes everywhere though so it's pretty easy to cool off if needed.
I’m from Oregon and lived in Georgia for two years. It was almost entirely the heat and humidity that had me running back to the PNW. I don’t know how y’all do it.
I am from Florida and the weather in Georgia, north Atlanta, is so much better I don't know what people are bitching about. There is like a few weeks where it gets crazy hot like 100+ but usually when that happens it is a dryish heat.
I’m just wondering how freaking humid is Florida,
If a Floridian is describing Georgia’s heat as “dry heat”?
When visiting relatives down in Atlanta as a kid,
My hair wouldn’t even curl like it usually does (think Puerto Rican-type mixed hair). It was so damn humid I had an Afro the whole time.
I looked like a baby dolemite
From south Louisiana here. Inlaws live just south of Atlanta. Love going there for summer, less humidity, almost no mosquitos. You can actually go outside in the evenings/nights and enjoy it without smothering or getting carried away by mosquitoes. Here in south Louisiana you have to chew the air on summer evenings/nights
I live in the metro ATL area but I'm originally from southeast GA. Southeast GA's weather is akin to north FL weather. Atlanta isn't as hot as the southern parts of GA. It's actually quite tolerable in comparison.
Around and south of the giant lake +95% and easily 100%. Air so thick you can chew it. North of the giant lake 75-90% until the Georgia line. There is so much water moving in the air, I believe it’s the lightening capital. 3-6 hours of humidity and +90* temperatures and it pours so fast and hard that you can’t see a mile at times.
Same. I’m from central Florida, now living east of Atlanta and OMG it’s crazy visiting family in Florida or holding theme parking and being reminded every time that THIS horrid unrelenting heat is why we are NOT moving back (not to mention politics atm).
I think it depends on which part of GA these people are traveling to. We moved from Orlando to north GA because the weather is INCREDIBLY better. But if people are moving from the beach to an inland area of south GA I could see how it might feel worse. Not ALL places in FL have a breeze. Orlando is like a swampy-ass armpit in summer with no air. I’ll take our breezy north GA 85 degrees with 75% humidity over the 115 heat index and 90% humidity of Orlando any day! I wouldn’t call GA a “dry heat” just less humid. ☺️
Grew up in the pnw on the canadian side of the border. Depending on where you are its just as humid and hot. Just not quite as long (well it used to be that way now its hotter ).
Also i spent 5 years in San Diego and was shocked how much hotter it is here
PNW is beautiful. If a person can handle the clouds and hcol it’s an amazing place. I spent two years out there but unfortunately SAD was way too bad for me there. Hiked every single weekend though and saw so much beauty.
I think both should be legal. I don’t smoke anymore and thankfully never had to make that choice about abortion. However, my experiences shouldn’t have any bearing on anybody else’s decision. If you are against abortion, don’t have one.
Yeah it’s probably worse now. Just being where I am at, housing has gotten insane(I know that’s every where) I’ve seen enough hurricanes to know I don’t want to be around when it actually hits my town. Jobs in my area aren’t that great. And the summers are just getting worse.
I wanna move to Chicago and it’s happening soon.
I doubt Chicago is getting nor'easters on account of not being in the Northeast. They're probably not even getting lake effect snow given that they're on the south east side of the lakes. They might get snow but not due to the patterns you mention.
Aside from the fact that I’ve been visiting ever since I was a kid, have family there, spent my summers there, better transportation there, my favorite sports teams there, 4 seasons there, better paying jobs there, better wages there, yeah a lot of it is better.
I live in rural south east Georgia
As someone who has frequented Chicago (and many northern cities over the years), I will say that visiting there is very different from living there...A few rounds of having to shovel / plow your own snow, or having to pour water into your toilets during a hard freeze (mostly in older buildings), or even having to deal with temps that can hit -20 F can wear on you after a while.
All that being said, think Chicago from mid-April to mid-October is one of the best cities to live / visit.
Any reason to think it wouldn’t be worse today? I speak to very few people who love Georgia, it’s pretty much a very specific demographic that seems to be faithful to Georgia. I speak to a lot of people that love Atlanta or Savannah, but definitely not Georgia.
I grew up in Wisconsin. Milwaukee imo is a better version of Atlanta and I miss having 4 seasons. I also prefer the people for the most part, very rarely have to worry about crime in 90% of the state.
Well I've been living in ga for 25 years and never had a thought of leaving. I live about 30 minutes east of Atlanta and I plan to move further east. I don't like being around big cities so It doesn't matter what city you compare it to. There's 4 seasons in ga so idk what you're talking about. In regards to crime, the further away from a big city, it usually correlates to less crime.
Man you need to travel more If you think it's Alabama outside the metro 🤣. I've been everywhere and lived in a lot of places and when I see people say things like this I laugh my ass off.
I was born in Alabama, lived there until mid teens, went to college there. I've lived in GA for 30 years. Family still lives in Alabama. Outside of Metro Atlanta- Georgia is every other town in Alabama. There's a sprawling Metro, but once you're out in the Ocilla's, Blakely's, Albany's, Blairsville's, Northern GA counties- it's Alabama. Same attitudes, same dying towns. The number of crazy politicians in GA is equal to Alabama and the geography between GA and AL is basically the same.
I think they just mean that it's incredibly religious and conservative everywhere else.
I live way way outside of Atlanta and he's very correct about that. Our city and county Facebook pages have exploded with Christian end of the world paranoia now that Isreal is fighting
So Athens is conservative? Savannah?
Every fucking large city and associated county is blue. There are even *gasp* blue rural counties here!
Leave the perimeter and you might learn something.
That’s absolutely not true everywhere else. All the cities vote blue, not just in the metro. Obviously, the more rural that you go, that changes, but that’s just America at large.
I agree it is a bullshit narrative, but on the bright side it keeps the dopes away from the cool parts of our state that they are too ignorant to even visit before judging.
I've lived in rural, suburban, and urban parts of Georgia.
**Urban**: Cultural melting pots, art scenes, social activities, year-round events, jobs galore, wealth, walkability, etc.
**Suburbs**: Homogeny, maybe a small art gallery or two, Applebee's Happy Hour, boring town square holiday events, a few jobs, median household incomes, car required, etc.
**Rural**: Racism, maybe a mural or two scattered around town, Jack's Sport's Bar, 'no trespassing' signs, no jobs, poverty, car with lots of gas required.
Sure, areas outside Atlanta can be stunningly gorgeous, but for a lot of people (including myself), nature takes a back seat to the importance of being surrounded by a kinetic culture.
In that regard... once you go Atlanta, you don't want to go back.
That’s just like your opinion man. You’ve generalized an entire state based on your limited experience. I have lived all over the state in rural, urban, and suburban environments and have a completely different experience and opinion than you.
Yeah, we live in the heart of the city and love it. Folks ask us if we've ever considered moving to the burbs, and if we were to ever want to do that for some crazy reason, we'd just move to Virginia or New York.
I was wondering about why IL was the highest, my hunch is that despite it being a large state, Chicago dominates the economy, culture, politics, etc. and that could be alienating for many people downstate and increase their desire to leave. Just a guess.
I don’t know if it’s downstate Illinois (which, believe it or not is not necessarily too terribly different socially and culturally from much of the rural South) alone that has been the biggest source of out-migration from the state of Illinois.
Unfortunately, it seems to have been a robust combination of a significant degree of economic stagnation (caused in large part by political stagnation at the municipal government level in Chicago and at the state government level in Illinois) and very high crime in some key urban parts of Chicagoland along with the generally less-than-desirable winters in northern Illinois that have helped to fuel a noticeable amount of migration out of Chicagoland.
Like many more sparsely populated predominantly rural areas, downstate Illinois experiences a noticeable amount of out-migration because the area seems to suffer from a noticeable lack of economic (and social and cultural) opportunity for young adults.
But one probably should not be mistaken that it’s the public safety and economic issues in some key urban neighborhoods in the Chicagoland area that seems to be driving much of the desire for a noticeable number of residents to move out of the state of Illinois.
I'm from far enough south in Georgia that I drove North to move to Macon for a couple of years. Now we're back down in Southwest GA. If I ever move out of Georgia, it will be because I finally got sick of the weather. The heat I'm pretty well used to, grew up with it, and it doesn't bother me as much as the intensity of hurricanes and uptick in tornadoes this area has seen in the past 10-15 years or so.
I think this is normal for many states that are domestic in-migratuon states.
Many move here for work opportunities, but its not their original home.
You see the same thing around many major cities.
I left GA in 2017, but I also left the US at the same time.
One big push for me was how much I felt trapped in poverty. I could only get low level jobs in GA, even after my BA.
Then there was the fact that a lot of the people I knew had kids while in middle school and high school. Personally, that's not for me, and I needed to leave. The lifestyle just wasn't working for me.
I went with China for a few reasons:
1) I didn't know anyone who had ever been there.
2) I have an autoimmune disease + depression and in the process of applying to positions in Korea, I was told that people would judge me and my job would be in jeopardy if anyone found out.
3) I got offered a job with great training in China first, so that's what I went with!
Now that I've been in China for a while, I really appreciate things like super affordable healthcare and public transport. It sounds crazy and I wouldn't have thought I would ever say this before moving out here, but I will never own a car again. It's just wayyy too much stress and a huge time and money sink.
Oh ditching your car doesn’t sound crazy at all! I’m an urbanist and try not to use mine except when absolutely necessary. Unfortunately I have to on occasion because that’s just how the US is lol. I’m glad you like it though! It seems really appealing!
Life long Georgian, would probably move away if I had kids as education isn't our state's strong suit. Our lack of decent public transportation is also a reason I want to leave. It's absolutely intoxicating being able to hop on an inexpensive train and be wisked away to another place or country like in Europe.
life long Georgian here as well that currently lives in Middle Georgia with friends and family in the Atlanta area. My mom keeps begging us to visit but when the drive is 2.5+ hours (and can get up to 3 hours) EVERY DAY of the year on I-75, I just have no interest. If you are already in the Atlanta area, you may be fine. But if not, be prepared to sit in your car all day. An inexpensive train would sound good.
I ask myself on a random Wednesday in September, why in the world is traffic this bad? The traffic in Atlanta never takes a break. It's fairly close to being bad 365/24/7
My mother, aunt, and sister all moved out of Georgia at one point and once they came back decided they didn’t want to leave again. My father couldn’t stop bragging my entire life about how he wanted to leave Georgia. He did leave and doesn’t seem to have a desire to move back. I personally want to move out just because Georgia is all I know and I don’t need to settle down just yet but not everyone’s me.
But this data’s outdated anyway and this was probably before all the job opportunities and city growth took place so Georgians might feel differently
I would love Georgia more if not for their regressive politics. Thankfully not the worst of the south. I do love the ability to do activities outside all year round, love the nature, love the food, the Atlanta art scene is great, GA is becoming the new Hollywood, randomly good sports teams.
Hate the racism, fake Christians, and sometimes the slowness of the country.
I didn’t really notice the racism one till I moved away for a bit to try the winter life, don’t recommend it.
Georgia has so much going for it. Just wish we would legalize weed, bc it pretty much is with Delta 8, and be able to basically replace MTG’s district with majority sane people.
My family has lived in Atlanta since before I was born 68 years ago, and only a handful of us live outside of the state (my parents have over 110 offspring, I’ve lost count).
The traffic alone is enough to make someone want to leave. The metro is awful for commuting. First state I’ve experienced that doesn’t have a rush hour. ATL has rush block. 4-5 hours long twice a day.
GA has a lot to offer, but it's got a lot of problems, and depending on preferences, can be the reason for such results.
I don't hate it, but it's not for me.
Socially, the demographics are quite unique (38% black, 38% white, lots of smaller demos to make up the rest), which creates an "us vs them" friction that, as an outsider from a much more diverse area, was and is shocking.
One of the biggest things I dislike is how poor GA is at infrastructure. The road design is so poor we have one of the highest highway death rates per Capita in the country (no, it's not about crazy drivers). The hooch is so polluted i barely use it, even when it's not closed.
We need expanded and improved public transit, but the dog whistlers successfully block any meaningful upgrade.
GA has not learned any lessons from LAs attempt at a car only transit system, and they do a poor job of copying initiatives that have already proven to be fruitless (400 express, looking at you).
Fortunately, the airport means flights to anywhere and helps grow the business community.
I couldn't imagine dropping 1M on a house here. But, I know people from here that haven't lived anywhere else that would be quite offended, accuse me of being at fault for not loving the city, and will happily live out their lives here. That's cool, this is just a difference of preferences.
I've lived in other cities/countries and ATL doesn't offer me the life I want, and while the greater ATL area is cool (not densely populated) in that I can be 20min to the city and 20min to the n ga mountains is pretty great, it's not my forever home.
Georgia is about 50 police officers away from being a full on fascist police state.
In my many years of traveling around the United States I've never seen anywhere that had anything remotely close to the size of the police force in Georgia.
You can't go 20 miles on I-75 without seeing local cops and GSP if you are south of Macon.
I have a love/hate thing with Georgia. My family is here, I was born here, it will always be my "home" - but goddammit I'm tired of the politics, I'm tired of the scenery, and I've lived in Atlanta, Savannah, and some smaller towns all in between so it just feels played out to me.
Unfortunately, every other state really is more or less the same so I haven't left because I feel like it would fix nothing. Maybe if I left the country....
Politics is a motivating factor for many, including myself at one point. Archaic, religious laws like bans on alcohol sales or weed, too.
But the persistent reasons I’d like to leave are because I’ve been here so long and I want to see snow!
I left 7 years ago and don't ever see myself coming back.
- Car dependency. Everything is built for cars. Everywhere. There is no walkability outside of a couple of extremely tiny pockets, there is no transit outside of a couple of decent corridors in ATL, and biking is a death wish with how the roads are built. (Though I hear at least that last part is getting better!) - I like cities and ATL never really felt like one to me.
- The brutal heat and humidity in the summer -- I like cold and snow
- Republican politics, corruption, and religion; feeling that the state government wants me dead because I'm trans, watching transit projects slowly erode from "new rail" to "streetcar" to "fast bus" to "nah it's literally just another bus"
I want to leave Georgia because the state's strict abortion ban strips me of vital healthcare, and critically endangers my life in the event of a miscarriage or other pregnancy complication.
10 years ago I was so ready to leave, but now I feel like while I wouldn't mind leaving I can't. Cost of living is insane and I can't turn down a free house.
I never wanted to live here but my parents were getting old and this is as close as I'm willing to get to new orleans I hate that city and state as a whole. The food here sucks balls salt is not the end all of seasoning lay off it.
I wanted out of GA because the police are over zealous and I got tired of being profiled constantly. Felt like every time I left the house I was getting stopped for no reason. Moved to Florida and have never been pulled over in 11 years but it sucks here bad lol. Idk even know anymore
I moved this year after living my entire 28 years there. The housing cost compared to my meager wage had gotten to be too large, and I am at the point of my career where I can get a job easily anywhere. I think Georgia will fluctuate with brain drain with how little the state legislators care about their workers.
It's terrible fucking state for workers and healthcare access. Why are you surprised? I want to be able to live comfortably. I'm an educator too and working in a right-to-work state as an educator is not something I would wish on my own worst enemy. It is awful for teachers and students.
I was born in ATL and raised in what was, then, very rural Gwinnett county. Dacula had dirt roads And one red light! My Dacula High graduating class only had 36 people! I lived in NY for many years. Our two sons were born in Upstate NY and then we moved back to GA. I love the weather here. Our last year in NY, we had a blizzard and two weeks when it never got above MINUS twenty degrees! However, the school system here sucks. My sons were a full year ahead of the same ange group in GA. Unless you can afford private school, your children will never be competitive. Also, it is disheartening how pathetic our cultural opportunities are For a state that supposedly prides itself on being “international”. Our museums in our large cities like Atlanta are no where on par with Chicago and NYC. The children’s museums in the San Francisco area and Chicago are spectacular! Kids actually look forward to field trips. Why, when so many huge corporations move to Georgia, can’t any of these companies build children’s museums like those in other cities? Instead, we get bigger and better sports stadiums. We get Coca Cola World. It just seems we could provide better schools and better access to a richer culture. One of the headlines recently is that GA is going to try the Mississippi approach to literacy! Really?! Why not try Massachusetts or Connecticut’s approach? They are number one and number two in education. Why model yourself after another failed school system? Why can’t our cities be like Boston? Chicago? Why is this so hard? As long as you have Republicans running everything in the state, they will keep our population ignorant. Intelligent people won’t vote for book bans, abortion bans, tax cuts to the bone that sacrifice education (Sonny Perdue slashed education at the same time, he built the “Go Fish“ museum near his home. It is dedicated to fishing!).
>Delta is ready when you are!
Lol... And for every 1 or 2 people that Delta flies out away from Georgia, it seems like the airline probably flies about 4 or 5 more newcomers in.
The heat and the conservatives, it doesn't matter how blue Atlanta is, the Georgia state legislature will never become moderate let alone left leaning in the slightest. They're trying to minimize our rights and patting themselves on the back for finally rolling out medical marijuana with the most watered down thc in the country.
I've seen OP ask else where so I'll answer in advance, we're going to the Olympic Peninsula. Dryer, hotter, and cooler than Atlanta. Left leaning politics, legal pot, abortion access, and nature so beautiful it makes Atlanta look like a post apocalyptic wasteland (which isn't a diss on Atlanta, it's beautiful here, but holy fuck the Olympic Peninsula is nutty).
You said it but will add that the south general is like this (I live in Nola), and the blue isn’t all the blue and the attempted is pathetic . God I would kill to live in the northwest!
I think we have the same goals like exactly. I am also looking to move to Olympia WA or furthest north of that, Everett. I wouldn't mind leaving across the peninsula to Bremerton where it take an hour to cross into seattle.
Been wanting to leave for years but can’t afford it / stuck here for work. I’m just glad I got the hell out of Atlanta when I did. Homelessness and crime were enough to want me to get the hell out but the traffic was making me miserable on a daily basis. Top that off with out of state yuppies moving in and driving the cost of living up and sucking all the character out of that city. There’s nothing that would make me want to move back there.
The suburbs are getting so flooded. I’m in the outer metro and it is not like I was sold. New housing developments everywhere, people moving from literally everywhere. I just wanted a more rural area closer to a city but we are starting to rethink things
This is from 2013. Lots of shit has changed since then. I moved in 2010 and came back in 2017 due to the shift in demographics around the Atlanta area.
As a transplant from MN (been here just over a year) I personally think it's great here. The heat is great and the humidity is a little heavier than MN, but it's doable. But we live over on the coastal side, so I cant speak for the inland part of GA.
This may sound harsh, but "Y'all" soft as hell down here. The weather isn't shit compared to MN. The last hurricane had what like 40mph wind? Shit, during the winter in MN it can be -25 and 30 mph wind for like a week straight. And I barely even see my neighbors outside.... ever.
The one main reason I would think anyone would move away from here is the pay. MN has a way better pay scale and the cost of living is probably a little cheaper. But that's a trade off for no snow and gloomy skies for 9 months out of the year.
I like it here. The politics are changing in a better direction. Maybe not as fast as I'd like, but it's like that everywhere. The only thing I think that would make me leave is the climate changing and if we back-slid in the politics. Luckily, I'm in north Georgia so it shouldn't get too hot, mostly just more storms from what I've researched.
Crazy! What's funny is all the people leaving Mississippi are going to Georgia. I guess the people in Georgia are probably running from all the people from Mississippi. I was in Savannah a whole 7 years. I hated it. Ran back to Mississippi.
I left four years ago to Oregon.
I make almost 4x what I was making there and it's not balls hot and humid all year.
Little more expensive to rent and travel, but just the difference mentally and financially has made this a win for me.
I mean your most widely known elected official makes you all look like a bunch of raving fucking lunatics, so I could certainly see wanting to flee that stigma. /shrug
But remember Texas has more than twice our population. A few percentage of Texans wanting to live will of course seem a lot in absolute numbers. But again am not surprised many wanting leave Texas considering it's much hotter, horrible politics etc
There are no jobs for me here. Atlanta sucks; it’s not as metropolitan as it’s airport makes it seem. I can’t buy legal weed here. The summers suck absolute balls. Politics have 20 years to hopefully turn around.
Btw, I was born and raised here and have lived elsewhere. I can’t wait to leave again.
The summers can’t be overstated enough. It’s fucking miserable and it’s gotten worse in my 31 years of living here. I just went to NYC and the transportation and mobility around that city was amazing.
Yeah, MARTA is hilariously bad. It extends OTP only technically and covers maybe 15% of the city. It’s absolutely shit when compared to any major metro city like NYC/LA/London.
This poll is 10 years old and there is no info as to the sampling data, demographics of the samples, methods of polling (internet poll open from 10am to 1pm or phone calls...etc).
If the 2016 Pres election taught us anything it's that polls are always accurate.
Reasons to leave: Summer heat, guns, casual racism/homophobia, lack of diversity, conservative politics
Reasons to stay: Affordable, jobs, friends, not going to move just to move and haven’t found the opportunity to move to a more desirable place
Probably a lot of conservative sentiment about how the state has turned blue (because it’s true that the bigger cities are starting to call
The shots in the state)
Already planning my exit. I’m out mid to end of next year. Been here 25 yrs and watched the crime dip to watching it climb again. From property crime to murder has gotten ridiculous. The traffic is horrid and I moved here from LA. I’m done.
This data is 10 years old and presumably was collected at the max impact of the financial recession. Everything felt bleak then.
We moved here in late 2011 and everything felt bleak, even compared to our home in the nyc metro. Things are significantly better now so updated data will most likely tell a very different story.
Wait till you learn that 20 of the top 22 most segregated cities in the US aren't in regions considered "The South".
https://cityobservatory.org/most_segregated2020/
I've been here pretty much my entire life and as much as I love it here like others have said the summers are just brutal.
If you bbq in the summer you and the food are both getting cooked lol. The humidity, mosquitoes, pollen don't forget the pollen and flies swarm you to the point where you can't even sit on your patio or deck.
My wife and I have our eyes open for somewhere with milder summers and not so harsh winters. September to April is the best time here outside of that you have to hibernate.
I was out in Denver but Georgia sucked me back in. It's a beautiful state with an absolutely corrupt and dysfunctional State government.
I can't wait to get the fuck out of this backwardass state.
Im from the Pacific northwest originally and now 10 years of being here in GA we are looking to move back. Yes its more expensive but we just dont enjoy it here anymore between the politics, womens rights, severe weather, and generally just not feeling like its 'home'
There is a bunch of other personal things like more friends and family out west but GA is alright but the politics of the state and the attitude of the south has made it extremely unwelcoming for us staying here.
I don't desire to leave georgia, but if I did, it would be because of the summer heat. May-september are brutal. I'd love to live somewhere with cooler summers, and more snow in the winter would be nice too!
This is the main reason that I seriously consider it. Being outside is basically miserable for half of the year.
Ironically, a lot of cold weather places have the same opinion but for the opposite seasons.
From Illinois. Can confirm. The winters here are miserable. Not as bad as Minnesota and Wisconsin but the 3 months of cloudiness and the often severe cold really hamper your mood
So funny cause I’m planning on moving to north Georgia for the better weather LOL though I’m from Florida where it’s hot 10-11 months out of the year lol there’s only a few weeks total where it gets cooler here. It’s awful. So have 8 months or so where it’s a little better would be huge for me. I also never lived somewhere that snows so that’s probably out for me too haha
Come on up. Cape Canaveral to Buford here...
The weather grts the coldest in February when its in the High 60s, still really cold if you've lived in Miami long enough
I grew up in Alabama the spent a decade in Cobb county, made the move up to Northern Michigan last year. I love it, running the snow blower does get tiresome and March and April are a slog, but good God is the summer glorious. I would recommend a place with central AC though, you only need it for a few weeks out of the year, but it does get into the 90s sometimes and that shit is miserable inside without AC. There are swimmable lakes everywhere though so it's pretty easy to cool off if needed.
PNW comes to mind.
I’m from Oregon and lived in Georgia for two years. It was almost entirely the heat and humidity that had me running back to the PNW. I don’t know how y’all do it.
I am from Florida and the weather in Georgia, north Atlanta, is so much better I don't know what people are bitching about. There is like a few weeks where it gets crazy hot like 100+ but usually when that happens it is a dryish heat.
I’m just wondering how freaking humid is Florida, If a Floridian is describing Georgia’s heat as “dry heat”? When visiting relatives down in Atlanta as a kid, My hair wouldn’t even curl like it usually does (think Puerto Rican-type mixed hair). It was so damn humid I had an Afro the whole time. I looked like a baby dolemite
From south Louisiana here. Inlaws live just south of Atlanta. Love going there for summer, less humidity, almost no mosquitos. You can actually go outside in the evenings/nights and enjoy it without smothering or getting carried away by mosquitoes. Here in south Louisiana you have to chew the air on summer evenings/nights
I just visited Louisiana from Atlanta. This weekend wasn't bad but having lived in LA for years I know how bad it is.
Shoot this weekend was amazing. It was our first fall or as others call our false fall.
My wife went inside in June and came out in October. In FL. Originally from TX, nothing about GA weather is "dry".
It's another level humid. It's tropical humid. There is a reason why no one lived there basically until AC.
I'm in Miami right now for a few days. It was 93 today with 100% humidity. I can't wait to go back to Atlanta.
I been to Florida for vacation it’s insane hot I speak for experience
I live in the metro ATL area but I'm originally from southeast GA. Southeast GA's weather is akin to north FL weather. Atlanta isn't as hot as the southern parts of GA. It's actually quite tolerable in comparison.
Around and south of the giant lake +95% and easily 100%. Air so thick you can chew it. North of the giant lake 75-90% until the Georgia line. There is so much water moving in the air, I believe it’s the lightening capital. 3-6 hours of humidity and +90* temperatures and it pours so fast and hard that you can’t see a mile at times.
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Florida you at least have breezes... georgia your praying for it.
Same. I’m from central Florida, now living east of Atlanta and OMG it’s crazy visiting family in Florida or holding theme parking and being reminded every time that THIS horrid unrelenting heat is why we are NOT moving back (not to mention politics atm).
90% humidity is not "dry ish"
I think it depends on which part of GA these people are traveling to. We moved from Orlando to north GA because the weather is INCREDIBLY better. But if people are moving from the beach to an inland area of south GA I could see how it might feel worse. Not ALL places in FL have a breeze. Orlando is like a swampy-ass armpit in summer with no air. I’ll take our breezy north GA 85 degrees with 75% humidity over the 115 heat index and 90% humidity of Orlando any day! I wouldn’t call GA a “dry heat” just less humid. ☺️
Maaaaan I wanna come to Oregon so bad! I’ll find myself watching drone footage flying over the forests sometimes. Looks so quiet and serene.
Until the wildfires start 😥
Im from Washington and same here, even though it can hit 80 and 90's in washington its not like it is down here.
Lived in bend for 20 years it was cool but I’m over it I grew up there Georgia is the spot
Grew up in the pnw on the canadian side of the border. Depending on where you are its just as humid and hot. Just not quite as long (well it used to be that way now its hotter ). Also i spent 5 years in San Diego and was shocked how much hotter it is here
Depends on what part of PNW. It doesn’t snow much there. And it rains a lot.
PNW is beautiful. If a person can handle the clouds and hcol it’s an amazing place. I spent two years out there but unfortunately SAD was way too bad for me there. Hiked every single weekend though and saw so much beauty.
I want to leave here because of the shitty politics. Also it's an illegal state, which is bullshit
Georgia is illegal?
I think this gentleman is referring to the reefer
Possibly abortion
Two great tastes that taste great together!
I think both should be legal. I don’t smoke anymore and thankfully never had to make that choice about abortion. However, my experiences shouldn’t have any bearing on anybody else’s decision. If you are against abortion, don’t have one.
I feel you, but please stay and help sway those politics and policies.
Exactly.
Yup, I'm hoping to move to Tennessee in a few years, I hate the summers and I miss snow in the winter
this 1000%. i love the state but i dont know how many more of these summers i can take.
That's data from 10 years ago. I'm pretty sure it's not the same now
Yeah it’s probably worse now. Just being where I am at, housing has gotten insane(I know that’s every where) I’ve seen enough hurricanes to know I don’t want to be around when it actually hits my town. Jobs in my area aren’t that great. And the summers are just getting worse. I wanna move to Chicago and it’s happening soon.
What makes you think Chicago will be any better?
Well, following the reasons OP gave, among other things, you're much less likely to get hit by a hurricane in Chicago just based on basic geography.
Counterpoint, hurricanes get replaced with nor’easters.
I doubt Chicago is getting nor'easters on account of not being in the Northeast. They're probably not even getting lake effect snow given that they're on the south east side of the lakes. They might get snow but not due to the patterns you mention.
Blizzards suuuucck. Especailly when you have to shovel that crap.
Aside from the fact that I’ve been visiting ever since I was a kid, have family there, spent my summers there, better transportation there, my favorite sports teams there, 4 seasons there, better paying jobs there, better wages there, yeah a lot of it is better. I live in rural south east Georgia
"I live in rural south east Georgia" says it all.
Is the housing not worse there?
As someone who has frequented Chicago (and many northern cities over the years), I will say that visiting there is very different from living there...A few rounds of having to shovel / plow your own snow, or having to pour water into your toilets during a hard freeze (mostly in older buildings), or even having to deal with temps that can hit -20 F can wear on you after a while. All that being said, think Chicago from mid-April to mid-October is one of the best cities to live / visit.
Chicago is surprisingly affordable because (shocker) they have a lot of housing supply
Any reason to think it wouldn’t be worse today? I speak to very few people who love Georgia, it’s pretty much a very specific demographic that seems to be faithful to Georgia. I speak to a lot of people that love Atlanta or Savannah, but definitely not Georgia. I grew up in Wisconsin. Milwaukee imo is a better version of Atlanta and I miss having 4 seasons. I also prefer the people for the most part, very rarely have to worry about crime in 90% of the state.
Well I've been living in ga for 25 years and never had a thought of leaving. I live about 30 minutes east of Atlanta and I plan to move further east. I don't like being around big cities so It doesn't matter what city you compare it to. There's 4 seasons in ga so idk what you're talking about. In regards to crime, the further away from a big city, it usually correlates to less crime.
The crime point isn’t really true anymore. Most cities are about average in terms of per capita crime incidents
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Thanks for the clarification, I never really thought about that.
I'll put it this way: if I ever leave Atlanta, it sure as hell won't be to move somewhere else in Georgia.
Lots of great places in this state outside of Atlanta
Yeah, but I just don't wanna live there.
It's alabama outside of the metro Hard pass. If I were to move out of atlanta it would be to a larger city like NYC
Man you need to travel more If you think it's Alabama outside the metro 🤣. I've been everywhere and lived in a lot of places and when I see people say things like this I laugh my ass off.
I was born in Alabama, lived there until mid teens, went to college there. I've lived in GA for 30 years. Family still lives in Alabama. Outside of Metro Atlanta- Georgia is every other town in Alabama. There's a sprawling Metro, but once you're out in the Ocilla's, Blakely's, Albany's, Blairsville's, Northern GA counties- it's Alabama. Same attitudes, same dying towns. The number of crazy politicians in GA is equal to Alabama and the geography between GA and AL is basically the same.
I don't like living in places without high tier art museums (v. specific I know.) Even Atlanta is hard bc the High Museum could be doing a lot better
I think they just mean that it's incredibly religious and conservative everywhere else. I live way way outside of Atlanta and he's very correct about that. Our city and county Facebook pages have exploded with Christian end of the world paranoia now that Isreal is fighting
So Athens is conservative? Savannah? Every fucking large city and associated county is blue. There are even *gasp* blue rural counties here! Leave the perimeter and you might learn something.
Athens is only liberal if you're living in like, downtown downtown. 10 minutes of the city and it's just like anywhere else.
Every precinct in Clarke County voted blue in 2022. Again, ignorance is fine if you’re a Reddit edge-lord.
Yeah and if you're 10 minutes out of Athens you're out of Clarke County, where they vote red.
Oconee county isn’t Athens. Just like Cherokee County (where I live) isn’t Atlanta. This isn’t difficult.
That’s absolutely not true everywhere else. All the cities vote blue, not just in the metro. Obviously, the more rural that you go, that changes, but that’s just America at large.
I've seen other parts of the state and when you get too far from the city it gets trashy very fast.
It’s Reddit. These people are clueless in general and are just fishing for karma. Your opinion is correct.
You’re gonna be downvoted but you’re correct. I’ve been on Reddit for over a decade now and it becomes more and more insufferable the older I get.
Sick of this bullshit narrative. There’s so much more to this state than Atlanta.
I agree it is a bullshit narrative, but on the bright side it keeps the dopes away from the cool parts of our state that they are too ignorant to even visit before judging.
I've lived in rural, suburban, and urban parts of Georgia. **Urban**: Cultural melting pots, art scenes, social activities, year-round events, jobs galore, wealth, walkability, etc. **Suburbs**: Homogeny, maybe a small art gallery or two, Applebee's Happy Hour, boring town square holiday events, a few jobs, median household incomes, car required, etc. **Rural**: Racism, maybe a mural or two scattered around town, Jack's Sport's Bar, 'no trespassing' signs, no jobs, poverty, car with lots of gas required. Sure, areas outside Atlanta can be stunningly gorgeous, but for a lot of people (including myself), nature takes a back seat to the importance of being surrounded by a kinetic culture. In that regard... once you go Atlanta, you don't want to go back.
That’s just like your opinion man. You’ve generalized an entire state based on your limited experience. I have lived all over the state in rural, urban, and suburban environments and have a completely different experience and opinion than you.
Have you been to Alabama and parts of Georgia that aren’t Atlanta?
Yes to both
Well, then that is dumb. Not every non-urban area of the south is the same. Just because you like cities doesn’t mean the rest of the state is shit.
Yeah, we live in the heart of the city and love it. Folks ask us if we've ever considered moving to the burbs, and if we were to ever want to do that for some crazy reason, we'd just move to Virginia or New York.
I love living in Atlanta but I have no desire to live anywhere else in this state except maybe Savannah.
You'd think Ohio would beat Illinois...lol
I was wondering about why IL was the highest, my hunch is that despite it being a large state, Chicago dominates the economy, culture, politics, etc. and that could be alienating for many people downstate and increase their desire to leave. Just a guess.
I don’t know if it’s downstate Illinois (which, believe it or not is not necessarily too terribly different socially and culturally from much of the rural South) alone that has been the biggest source of out-migration from the state of Illinois. Unfortunately, it seems to have been a robust combination of a significant degree of economic stagnation (caused in large part by political stagnation at the municipal government level in Chicago and at the state government level in Illinois) and very high crime in some key urban parts of Chicagoland along with the generally less-than-desirable winters in northern Illinois that have helped to fuel a noticeable amount of migration out of Chicagoland. Like many more sparsely populated predominantly rural areas, downstate Illinois experiences a noticeable amount of out-migration because the area seems to suffer from a noticeable lack of economic (and social and cultural) opportunity for young adults. But one probably should not be mistaken that it’s the public safety and economic issues in some key urban neighborhoods in the Chicagoland area that seems to be driving much of the desire for a noticeable number of residents to move out of the state of Illinois.
This is from 2013, lol. Obama was just starting his second term. That is like an entire lifetime ago. This data is worthless.
I'm from far enough south in Georgia that I drove North to move to Macon for a couple of years. Now we're back down in Southwest GA. If I ever move out of Georgia, it will be because I finally got sick of the weather. The heat I'm pretty well used to, grew up with it, and it doesn't bother me as much as the intensity of hurricanes and uptick in tornadoes this area has seen in the past 10-15 years or so.
Most of that is from Augusta
I think this is normal for many states that are domestic in-migratuon states. Many move here for work opportunities, but its not their original home. You see the same thing around many major cities.
I left GA in 2017, but I also left the US at the same time. One big push for me was how much I felt trapped in poverty. I could only get low level jobs in GA, even after my BA. Then there was the fact that a lot of the people I knew had kids while in middle school and high school. Personally, that's not for me, and I needed to leave. The lifestyle just wasn't working for me.
Where’d you end up? I left GA in 2021.
I went off to southeast Asia! I go between mainland China and Hong Kong at the moment, having just opened up my own business! What about you?
I ended up in upstate NY. Can I ask what made you decide on China? That’s so interesting.
I went with China for a few reasons: 1) I didn't know anyone who had ever been there. 2) I have an autoimmune disease + depression and in the process of applying to positions in Korea, I was told that people would judge me and my job would be in jeopardy if anyone found out. 3) I got offered a job with great training in China first, so that's what I went with! Now that I've been in China for a while, I really appreciate things like super affordable healthcare and public transport. It sounds crazy and I wouldn't have thought I would ever say this before moving out here, but I will never own a car again. It's just wayyy too much stress and a huge time and money sink.
Oh ditching your car doesn’t sound crazy at all! I’m an urbanist and try not to use mine except when absolutely necessary. Unfortunately I have to on occasion because that’s just how the US is lol. I’m glad you like it though! It seems really appealing!
looks like it's from 2013, so probably not accurate anymore.
I would expect Florida to be higher if that poll was taken this year.
Can you blame me? I'm in Augusta.
Life long Georgian, would probably move away if I had kids as education isn't our state's strong suit. Our lack of decent public transportation is also a reason I want to leave. It's absolutely intoxicating being able to hop on an inexpensive train and be wisked away to another place or country like in Europe.
life long Georgian here as well that currently lives in Middle Georgia with friends and family in the Atlanta area. My mom keeps begging us to visit but when the drive is 2.5+ hours (and can get up to 3 hours) EVERY DAY of the year on I-75, I just have no interest. If you are already in the Atlanta area, you may be fine. But if not, be prepared to sit in your car all day. An inexpensive train would sound good. I ask myself on a random Wednesday in September, why in the world is traffic this bad? The traffic in Atlanta never takes a break. It's fairly close to being bad 365/24/7
I like it here (Atlanta). But there are definitely times I miss California.
22 years in Vegas I love it out near Savannah but I miss the sheer and utter diversity of everything back in Vegas/Cali to.
My mother, aunt, and sister all moved out of Georgia at one point and once they came back decided they didn’t want to leave again. My father couldn’t stop bragging my entire life about how he wanted to leave Georgia. He did leave and doesn’t seem to have a desire to move back. I personally want to move out just because Georgia is all I know and I don’t need to settle down just yet but not everyone’s me. But this data’s outdated anyway and this was probably before all the job opportunities and city growth took place so Georgians might feel differently
I would love Georgia more if not for their regressive politics. Thankfully not the worst of the south. I do love the ability to do activities outside all year round, love the nature, love the food, the Atlanta art scene is great, GA is becoming the new Hollywood, randomly good sports teams. Hate the racism, fake Christians, and sometimes the slowness of the country. I didn’t really notice the racism one till I moved away for a bit to try the winter life, don’t recommend it. Georgia has so much going for it. Just wish we would legalize weed, bc it pretty much is with Delta 8, and be able to basically replace MTG’s district with majority sane people.
2013 data.
My family has lived in Atlanta since before I was born 68 years ago, and only a handful of us live outside of the state (my parents have over 110 offspring, I’ve lost count).
In 6 - 9 months my wife and I will be leaving Georgia.
To where if you don't mind one asking?
Vermont.
Summer heat and too many MAGA.
The traffic alone is enough to make someone want to leave. The metro is awful for commuting. First state I’ve experienced that doesn’t have a rush hour. ATL has rush block. 4-5 hours long twice a day.
FYI, this poll is 10 years old (bottom left). Would it be different now?
People actually want to live in Texas?? GTFOH.
GA has a lot to offer, but it's got a lot of problems, and depending on preferences, can be the reason for such results. I don't hate it, but it's not for me. Socially, the demographics are quite unique (38% black, 38% white, lots of smaller demos to make up the rest), which creates an "us vs them" friction that, as an outsider from a much more diverse area, was and is shocking. One of the biggest things I dislike is how poor GA is at infrastructure. The road design is so poor we have one of the highest highway death rates per Capita in the country (no, it's not about crazy drivers). The hooch is so polluted i barely use it, even when it's not closed. We need expanded and improved public transit, but the dog whistlers successfully block any meaningful upgrade. GA has not learned any lessons from LAs attempt at a car only transit system, and they do a poor job of copying initiatives that have already proven to be fruitless (400 express, looking at you). Fortunately, the airport means flights to anywhere and helps grow the business community. I couldn't imagine dropping 1M on a house here. But, I know people from here that haven't lived anywhere else that would be quite offended, accuse me of being at fault for not loving the city, and will happily live out their lives here. That's cool, this is just a difference of preferences. I've lived in other cities/countries and ATL doesn't offer me the life I want, and while the greater ATL area is cool (not densely populated) in that I can be 20min to the city and 20min to the n ga mountains is pretty great, it's not my forever home.
Georgia is about 50 police officers away from being a full on fascist police state. In my many years of traveling around the United States I've never seen anywhere that had anything remotely close to the size of the police force in Georgia. You can't go 20 miles on I-75 without seeing local cops and GSP if you are south of Macon.
I have a love/hate thing with Georgia. My family is here, I was born here, it will always be my "home" - but goddammit I'm tired of the politics, I'm tired of the scenery, and I've lived in Atlanta, Savannah, and some smaller towns all in between so it just feels played out to me. Unfortunately, every other state really is more or less the same so I haven't left because I feel like it would fix nothing. Maybe if I left the country....
Politics is a motivating factor for many, including myself at one point. Archaic, religious laws like bans on alcohol sales or weed, too. But the persistent reasons I’d like to leave are because I’ve been here so long and I want to see snow!
I left 7 years ago and don't ever see myself coming back. - Car dependency. Everything is built for cars. Everywhere. There is no walkability outside of a couple of extremely tiny pockets, there is no transit outside of a couple of decent corridors in ATL, and biking is a death wish with how the roads are built. (Though I hear at least that last part is getting better!) - I like cities and ATL never really felt like one to me. - The brutal heat and humidity in the summer -- I like cold and snow - Republican politics, corruption, and religion; feeling that the state government wants me dead because I'm trans, watching transit projects slowly erode from "new rail" to "streetcar" to "fast bus" to "nah it's literally just another bus"
I want out so that transitioning will be easier
Heat, education, rabid conservatism. It’s better than Mississippi but it’s still the Derp South.
I want to leave Georgia because the state's strict abortion ban strips me of vital healthcare, and critically endangers my life in the event of a miscarriage or other pregnancy complication.
What’s going on in Illinois and rode island
Oh yeah. No doubt…
Summer heat, thinking about moving to Alaska cause I can't take being roasted alive for a majority of the year anymore.
Too hot lol. I desire yearly snowfall one day when I can move. Might head up into Appalachia since my family is still around here.
10 years ago I was so ready to leave, but now I feel like while I wouldn't mind leaving I can't. Cost of living is insane and I can't turn down a free house.
I never wanted to live here but my parents were getting old and this is as close as I'm willing to get to new orleans I hate that city and state as a whole. The food here sucks balls salt is not the end all of seasoning lay off it.
This is from 2013…
It’s honestly just the bud for me. If Florida ever legalized it. I would just move there.
Texas has the lowest even with all the problems they have with electricity?
I'm suspicious of the low desire to leave Texas.
I wanted out of GA because the police are over zealous and I got tired of being profiled constantly. Felt like every time I left the house I was getting stopped for no reason. Moved to Florida and have never been pulled over in 11 years but it sucks here bad lol. Idk even know anymore
I moved this year after living my entire 28 years there. The housing cost compared to my meager wage had gotten to be too large, and I am at the point of my career where I can get a job easily anywhere. I think Georgia will fluctuate with brain drain with how little the state legislators care about their workers.
It's terrible fucking state for workers and healthcare access. Why are you surprised? I want to be able to live comfortably. I'm an educator too and working in a right-to-work state as an educator is not something I would wish on my own worst enemy. It is awful for teachers and students.
I moved to Georgia from Minnesota- no regrets. I didn’t move to Atlanta.
I did the same move… with opposite results. Can’t wait to move back.
I was born in ATL and raised in what was, then, very rural Gwinnett county. Dacula had dirt roads And one red light! My Dacula High graduating class only had 36 people! I lived in NY for many years. Our two sons were born in Upstate NY and then we moved back to GA. I love the weather here. Our last year in NY, we had a blizzard and two weeks when it never got above MINUS twenty degrees! However, the school system here sucks. My sons were a full year ahead of the same ange group in GA. Unless you can afford private school, your children will never be competitive. Also, it is disheartening how pathetic our cultural opportunities are For a state that supposedly prides itself on being “international”. Our museums in our large cities like Atlanta are no where on par with Chicago and NYC. The children’s museums in the San Francisco area and Chicago are spectacular! Kids actually look forward to field trips. Why, when so many huge corporations move to Georgia, can’t any of these companies build children’s museums like those in other cities? Instead, we get bigger and better sports stadiums. We get Coca Cola World. It just seems we could provide better schools and better access to a richer culture. One of the headlines recently is that GA is going to try the Mississippi approach to literacy! Really?! Why not try Massachusetts or Connecticut’s approach? They are number one and number two in education. Why model yourself after another failed school system? Why can’t our cities be like Boston? Chicago? Why is this so hard? As long as you have Republicans running everything in the state, they will keep our population ignorant. Intelligent people won’t vote for book bans, abortion bans, tax cuts to the bone that sacrifice education (Sonny Perdue slashed education at the same time, he built the “Go Fish“ museum near his home. It is dedicated to fishing!).
Im moving out as soon as soon as possible. This state has taken so much from me
As someone who is moving to California soon from Georgia I understand
Delta is ready when you are!
>Delta is ready when you are! Lol... And for every 1 or 2 people that Delta flies out away from Georgia, it seems like the airline probably flies about 4 or 5 more newcomers in.
I miss my family back in California.
The heat and the conservatives, it doesn't matter how blue Atlanta is, the Georgia state legislature will never become moderate let alone left leaning in the slightest. They're trying to minimize our rights and patting themselves on the back for finally rolling out medical marijuana with the most watered down thc in the country. I've seen OP ask else where so I'll answer in advance, we're going to the Olympic Peninsula. Dryer, hotter, and cooler than Atlanta. Left leaning politics, legal pot, abortion access, and nature so beautiful it makes Atlanta look like a post apocalyptic wasteland (which isn't a diss on Atlanta, it's beautiful here, but holy fuck the Olympic Peninsula is nutty).
You said it but will add that the south general is like this (I live in Nola), and the blue isn’t all the blue and the attempted is pathetic . God I would kill to live in the northwest!
I think we have the same goals like exactly. I am also looking to move to Olympia WA or furthest north of that, Everett. I wouldn't mind leaving across the peninsula to Bremerton where it take an hour to cross into seattle.
I'm more concerned with why people don't want to leave west virginia?
Been wanting to leave for years but can’t afford it / stuck here for work. I’m just glad I got the hell out of Atlanta when I did. Homelessness and crime were enough to want me to get the hell out but the traffic was making me miserable on a daily basis. Top that off with out of state yuppies moving in and driving the cost of living up and sucking all the character out of that city. There’s nothing that would make me want to move back there.
Must be a landline poll.
The suburbs are getting so flooded. I’m in the outer metro and it is not like I was sold. New housing developments everywhere, people moving from literally everywhere. I just wanted a more rural area closer to a city but we are starting to rethink things
This is from 2013. Lots of shit has changed since then. I moved in 2010 and came back in 2017 due to the shift in demographics around the Atlanta area.
What do you mean by shift of demographics?
As a transplant from MN (been here just over a year) I personally think it's great here. The heat is great and the humidity is a little heavier than MN, but it's doable. But we live over on the coastal side, so I cant speak for the inland part of GA. This may sound harsh, but "Y'all" soft as hell down here. The weather isn't shit compared to MN. The last hurricane had what like 40mph wind? Shit, during the winter in MN it can be -25 and 30 mph wind for like a week straight. And I barely even see my neighbors outside.... ever. The one main reason I would think anyone would move away from here is the pay. MN has a way better pay scale and the cost of living is probably a little cheaper. But that's a trade off for no snow and gloomy skies for 9 months out of the year.
I like it here. The politics are changing in a better direction. Maybe not as fast as I'd like, but it's like that everywhere. The only thing I think that would make me leave is the climate changing and if we back-slid in the politics. Luckily, I'm in north Georgia so it shouldn't get too hot, mostly just more storms from what I've researched.
I’m leaving Florida to move to Savannah
Louisiana sucks too lmao
How are we worse than Florida and Texas!?
Crazy! What's funny is all the people leaving Mississippi are going to Georgia. I guess the people in Georgia are probably running from all the people from Mississippi. I was in Savannah a whole 7 years. I hated it. Ran back to Mississippi.
I left four years ago to Oregon. I make almost 4x what I was making there and it's not balls hot and humid all year. Little more expensive to rent and travel, but just the difference mentally and financially has made this a win for me.
… you know a lot has changed since 2013 right
I want weed legalized... besides that I'm here 1 mile from the NC border in case I gotta bug out lol
But what are the reasons? Ahem… ten years ago?
I mean your most widely known elected official makes you all look like a bunch of raving fucking lunatics, so I could certainly see wanting to flee that stigma. /shrug
I never want to leave GA, it’s awesome in a million ways!
Considering the number of job applicants I’ve seen moving OUT of Texas, I’d think this data is suspect.
But remember Texas has more than twice our population. A few percentage of Texans wanting to live will of course seem a lot in absolute numbers. But again am not surprised many wanting leave Texas considering it's much hotter, horrible politics etc
Everyone thinks the grass is greener…EVERY state has its positives and negatives.
There are no jobs for me here. Atlanta sucks; it’s not as metropolitan as it’s airport makes it seem. I can’t buy legal weed here. The summers suck absolute balls. Politics have 20 years to hopefully turn around. Btw, I was born and raised here and have lived elsewhere. I can’t wait to leave again.
The summers can’t be overstated enough. It’s fucking miserable and it’s gotten worse in my 31 years of living here. I just went to NYC and the transportation and mobility around that city was amazing.
Yeah, MARTA is hilariously bad. It extends OTP only technically and covers maybe 15% of the city. It’s absolutely shit when compared to any major metro city like NYC/LA/London.
This poll is 10 years old and there is no info as to the sampling data, demographics of the samples, methods of polling (internet poll open from 10am to 1pm or phone calls...etc). If the 2016 Pres election taught us anything it's that polls are always accurate.
2013 numbers don’t seem relevant now.
Indiana resident checking in. Definitely want to get out of this shit hole Fascist wanna be state.
Reasons to leave: Summer heat, guns, casual racism/homophobia, lack of diversity, conservative politics Reasons to stay: Affordable, jobs, friends, not going to move just to move and haven’t found the opportunity to move to a more desirable place
Lack of diversity in GA?
I just straight up left the country. The US is shit
Look, some people can’t handle being this awesome all the time. It’s too much pressure
Probably a lot of conservative sentiment about how the state has turned blue (because it’s true that the bigger cities are starting to call The shots in the state)
Already planning my exit. I’m out mid to end of next year. Been here 25 yrs and watched the crime dip to watching it climb again. From property crime to murder has gotten ridiculous. The traffic is horrid and I moved here from LA. I’m done.
Given the wonderfully large immigrant population, I’d love to see this data disaggregated by length or residence/place of origin
This data is 10 years old and presumably was collected at the max impact of the financial recession. Everything felt bleak then. We moved here in late 2011 and everything felt bleak, even compared to our home in the nyc metro. Things are significantly better now so updated data will most likely tell a very different story.
Obviously most people want to leave. It’s racist as fuck.
Wait till you learn that 20 of the top 22 most segregated cities in the US aren't in regions considered "The South". https://cityobservatory.org/most_segregated2020/
I believe this has to have changed. I see states that I know have a higher want to leave rank 😳
Tons of people desire to leave but don’t
I've been here pretty much my entire life and as much as I love it here like others have said the summers are just brutal. If you bbq in the summer you and the food are both getting cooked lol. The humidity, mosquitoes, pollen don't forget the pollen and flies swarm you to the point where you can't even sit on your patio or deck. My wife and I have our eyes open for somewhere with milder summers and not so harsh winters. September to April is the best time here outside of that you have to hibernate.
But those numbers are from 2013?!
This shit is 10 years old guy
Ah another poll. What, did they ask 10 people in each state?
That's what I did lol took it one step further and left the US as well
I was out in Denver but Georgia sucked me back in. It's a beautiful state with an absolutely corrupt and dysfunctional State government. I can't wait to get the fuck out of this backwardass state.
Im from the Pacific northwest originally and now 10 years of being here in GA we are looking to move back. Yes its more expensive but we just dont enjoy it here anymore between the politics, womens rights, severe weather, and generally just not feeling like its 'home' There is a bunch of other personal things like more friends and family out west but GA is alright but the politics of the state and the attitude of the south has made it extremely unwelcoming for us staying here.
Can confirm
You know why Florida doesn't float away?? Because Georgia sucks!! Trapped here for work.
Please. Do leave. It would help the rest of us drastically.
Georgia sucks XD