[ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek moving to/near Atlanta?

[Sean Kilpatrick]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 11:08, Brian Schenken wrote:
| I've been to the south, my wife hasn't yet. ?It's going to be quite a
| culture shock. ?On my last trip some ladies lit up inside a restaurant
| and it was bizarre to me! ?Smoking... indoors... AND ... near.....
| food? ?While people are trying to ... taste? ?To me it's like having
| someone take a poop in the booth next to you. ?Might as well pay the
| bill and go buy some drive though that you can eat without marinating
| it in someone else's stink. ?But of course everyone's still used to it
| in the south.
| 
| We're Atheists too, which I understand is even_worse_than_gay down
| there. ?Might be time to peel off the Darwin fish if we wan't to keep
| from having our windows smashed... ?I can live with treating my ideals
| like a terrible secret, but I don't think I'll be buying a gun... ?I
| qualified with my m16 in the Army and ?haven't any reason to pick up a
| gun since. ?Plus with kids around... ?I prefer the mouse.

I'm going to have to respond to this, because the South has been
fighting this kind of nasty regional bigotry for decades.

Smoking in public places is almost totally outlawed now in the Atlanta
area. Certainly in the city, Fulton and Dekalb counties. Can't vouch for
Gwinnett and Cobb, but I think they have taken the same path.  I can't 
remember the last time I had someone light up nearby while I was dining.

And, no, you won't have to peel off your Darwin fish. The Atlanta area
also is surprisingly gay tolerant as well.  Why?  The gay community has too 
much money!  Your atheism won't cause many problems -- unless you insist on
standing outside a church on Sunday morning proclaiming your views with
a bull horn! :)  Certainly no one is going to be vandalizing your house
because you have a Darwin Fish on the back of your car. You will notice a 
surprising number of your neighbors are in church on Sunday, however,
including members of the LGTG community (lesbian/gay/trans-gendered).  
Atlanta was the home of Martin Luther King, Jr., after all, NOT Jerry 
Falwell; the intolerant fundamentalists haven't had a strong 
political/religious leader here since Lester Maddox left the
governor's mansion.

Sean

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