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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 14, 2015 at 10:30 pm
Cavs destroyed Chicago. On to Atlanta. (But hopefully Washington.)
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 14, 2015 at 10:32 pm
I'm really drawn to visit Atlanta. I don't even know why, something about it has always called to my spirit going back years
I think it's because I always wanted to move to Murica, but New York or L.A aren't realistic with their fashionable prices and Atlanta looks like the next coolest place
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 14, 2015 at 10:36 pm
(May 14, 2015 at 10:32 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I'm really drawn to visit Atlanta. I don't even know why, something about it has always called to my spirit going back years
I think it's because I always wanted to move to Murica, but New York or L.A aren't realistic with their fashionable prices and Atlanta looks like the next coolest place
Huh, that's an odd choice 
I've always though of Denver and Seattle as the coolest places in the U.S (after N.Y)
New Orleans must also be fun to visit, but I'm not sure what it's like to live there. 
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 14, 2015 at 10:42 pm
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(May 14, 2015 at 10:36 pm)dahrling Wrote: (May 14, 2015 at 10:32 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I'm really drawn to visit Atlanta. I don't even know why, something about it has always called to my spirit going back years
I think it's because I always wanted to move to Murica, but New York or L.A aren't realistic with their fashionable prices and Atlanta looks like the next coolest place
Huh, that's an odd choice
I've always though of Denver and Seattle as the coolest places in the U.S (after N.Y)
New Orleans must also be fun to visit, but I'm not sure what it's like to live there.
I spent a lot of my childhood in the New Orleans area. I loved it. I wouldn't want to live in the city itself but there are suburbs close by. I stayed with my grandfather in Norco so within driving distance of New Orleans but without the crime rate.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 14, 2015 at 10:44 pm
Yeah I guess it is a bit odd, nobody ever seems drawn to Atlanta and I've heard locals talking about it like they think it's mundane. Idk for some reason I'm drawn though
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 14, 2015 at 10:47 pm
(May 14, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Yeah I guess it is a bit odd, nobody ever seems drawn to Atlanta and I've heard locals talking about it like they think it's mundane. Idk for some reason I'm drawn though
The only thing special about Atlanta to me is their aquarium has whale sharks. It was the only time I had seen them in person and it was amazing.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 14, 2015 at 10:49 pm
(May 14, 2015 at 10:32 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I'm really drawn to visit Atlanta. I don't even know why, something about it has always called to my spirit going back years
I think it's because I always wanted to move to Murica, but New York or L.A aren't realistic with their fashionable prices and Atlanta looks like the next coolest place
I used to live in SW NC, about 2 hours drive from ATL. I went down there a couple of times with my housemates (one of whom was from Griffin, GA, in Metro Atlanta). Somehow I wasn't terribly impressed. Maybe it was the humidity. Maybe it was that I was going with others, so I couldn't just go where I'd likely most want to go. I've been downtown and I've been to Ebenezer Baptist (which might also be downtown?).
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 14, 2015 at 11:16 pm
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ATL has a wonderful southern culture, but it is a sprawling, sweltering metropolis.
Best go to Savannah. Near the beach, on a river, a gorgeous historical city with an amazing culture (if you haven't read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt you had better soon, and shame on you.) Think brick streets with old plantation homes with Live Oaks dripping with Spanish Moss.
And no open container laws.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 12:05 am
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(May 14, 2015 at 11:16 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: ATL has a wonderful southern culture, but it is a sprawling, sweltering metropolis.
Best go to Savannah. Near the beach, on a river, a gorgeous historical city with an amazing culture (if you haven't read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt you had better soon, and shame on you.) Think brick streets with old plantation homes with Live Oaks dripping with Spanish Moss.
And no open container laws.
The beach? What about all the sharks?
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But seriously, is anyone else ridiculously afraid of sharks?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
May 15, 2015 at 12:16 am
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I don't do that jumping in the sea or surfing life, so I have nothing to be scared of. I feel like getting eaten by sharks is such an American girl thing to do. I don't know what it is about Americans, it's like you have this inherent fearlessness in your genes to where you'll go out into the sea with those creatures. Um-um, no, I'm gonna stay here and enjoy the sun on dry land ta.
I'm comfortable just sun-bathing on the sand
I do love a nice beach though, preferable with white sand and turquoise water. Beaches like that don't exist in the UK, the nearest one to me is mud instead of sand and brown (yes, brown!) water. DISGUSTENG.
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