atlanta, what's wrong?

i've been thinking about this for a while, probably since i got back to atlanta, over a year ago.

i moved to atlanta in 2003, right after i graduated from college.  i spent 2 years here, and was spent.  then i moved to la, was there a little over 5 years (i love la) and then moved to busan, s.korea (korea is cool).  after korea, i came back to atlanta to start again.

almost as soon as i got here, i remembered all of the reasons why i left, and wanted to leave so badly.  atlanta is kind of small and slow-paced, but still pretty cool as a city, with enough to do to be considered decent.  what's really effed about the atl are (some of) the people.  not all, but there are quite a few people here that have the 'syndrome'.

the atlanta syndrome is affiliating wealth or speaking well, or even decently enough so someone can understand you, as being a 'white' thing.  there's a lot of the perpetual poverty syndrome, and when you get out of that, you enter into the realm of needing dudes to buy you purses and an extremely hostile disposition towards other women.  with the men, they're extremely disrespectful to women.  now, please don't forget, this is not everyone, but a LOT of the dudes here feel entitled to stare at you, from head to toe, in your face, in you ass, wherever they want for as long as they want.  i've never seen anything like this anywhere else i've ever been to or lived in my entire life.

i believe that atlanta is a very (poorly) oversexed city.  the women, not everyone, but the armpit ones...you know what i'm talking about...wear what's the shortest, and the tightest, can be seen shaking their asses in the street thinking it's cute, and running intentionally into 8mo pregnant women walking through the mall when there is absolutely no one else around...take my word for that last one.

so the next 'tier' is that everyone is a CEO.  a ceo/president/founder, everyone else is a model.  the new thing in atlanta has been the new thing since the year i left, and that's the 'gourmet' pizza place, that's gourmet because they have some movie playing on the wall and have a full(ish) bar.  then there are the same lame events...listening parties, release parties, grand re-grand, rerere-openings and bootleg fashion shows.  because remember, everyone here...EVERYONE is a model.

i'm not full of hate.  i'm full of disappointment.  when i was here, the club scene was kinda ok, usher and outkast were making music, the studios were going strong....and the full-bar having pizza kitchen was actually a new(ish) idea.  that was 10 years ago.

see, i just don't think (some) people should be so proud of a place that's so not.  and no...this is NOT black hollywood.  atl housewives and love and hip hop doesn't make you anywhere close to anything besides a cheap (monetarily and otherwise) place to film.

but i don't really care about the princess attitudes, and my weave is fresh attitude.  i don't care about the 14 year old trying to fight me from her car when i was just taking my dog for a run by the park.  i don't care.  i do get pissed about the dudes.  i was followed almost an entire block, pregnant by a dude hassling me for a date.  7 months pregnant.

my husband's sister...when she was pregnant...a dude in ross asking her to 'chill' and she says, can't you see that i'm pregnant?  and he said, well, that just means that you can't get pregnant again.  i think all people do (not all all, but a lot of the all) down here is eff.

i'd be able to get over it all if it weren't so HOT and HUMID.  and had traffic EVERYWHERE.

but on the good side, the underground scene here is good.  you just have to dig....and digggggggg