welp.....this is it boys

Aug 14, 2020, 9:20 AM

Last commute into the office today. Most of me has a sad, part of me is pumped to finally get out of here.

tl;dr: i'm being a big softie now that i'm leaving my home state.

been really thinking about the good times we've had the past 13 years since I arrived at the north ave trade school.

The music: #### me I have some fantastic memories here, and they're all ridiculously unique. First panic show was allman bros / panic at verizon. Seeing Bassnectar and Pretty Lights at some farm in the middle of nowhere tripping balls will be tough to beat. Griz and Gramatic at some abandoned warehouse btwn Tech and vine city. Drinking beers w/ Col Bruce. PGroove at Variety. String Cheese invite only after party at T-West. The memories of all the Sweetwater and Terrapin festivals. The Tabby. And, obviously, the Fox. The music scene here is unique, and there's nothing better IMO.

Georgia Tech: May sound super nerdy, but I really take for granted the influence my degree has here versus other cities. Atlanta is a logistics hub. The top firms in the industry are right here for a reason, and I'm proud to be a part of it. I wish I would've taken advantage of living here and knocked out my MBA from Tech as well. Tennessee has nothing that can compare. The value of the GA colleges is second to none. I graduated w/ < 20k in debt and have the #1 degree in my field on the planet.

The airport....talk about taking things for granted. Can literally get anywhere in the world on a direct flight.

The whole UGA / GT culture. I've hated those ####### dawgs my entire life. I love hating them. I love all my leg humping aaaaaaaaaaathins friends. I'll miss hearing how bad ### they're going to be every year, how whichever QB they got is going first round, etc. From the UTenn people I've met, it's not the same.

HS football. South GA Low Country. Boiled Peanuts. The Braves. The Masters. The Okefenokee Swamp. GA Shrimp. Cumberland. Being close to family in SC and obviously that sweet, sweet 2 hour drive to the Valley. I could obviously go on...

The city has changed, and I personally think for the worse. Maybe it hasn't and we're just now seeing it...idk. Although it's not the driver for us leaving, it definitely feels as close to the right time as it can be. There's more sadness w/ leaving the state than Atlanta itself.

We made a ton of money on our house, get to be close to Obed®, close to a lake, and outside of a metro area. There's a lot of positives for sure and hoping the next 13 years are as good as the last.

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Cause if it is, that's all its got going for it. I can't think of one redeeming, memorable thing about Atlanta, or specifically Alpharetta, that would even make me ever want to visit, much less live there.

For the money it would take me to make me live there, they can find someone a lot cheaper and better at their job then me.

I used to have to go to Alpharetta for work about 6 times a year. Alpharetta could literally be anywhere. The town as a whole could be picked up and moved to any state, and as generic and vanilla as it is, it wouldn't make any difference. It really doesn't get any blander than "Moss Creek" Or "Pine Valley" or "Oakmont" or "Hearthstone". Whats the difference in any of them? They all have McMansions on top of each other with an apartment complex thrown in front of a few of them to give the poors and divorced dads somewhere to live.

welp.....this is it boys

Glad you're doing what's best for you, Linda.***

You forgot to mention two of Georgia's greatest attributes

it's not a race.***

If you think Dawg fans are obnoxious, wait until you

Believe it or not, they’re finally humble.

I married into it so been dealing w/ their ####

Just leave already

Yeah, Atlanta is groovy, but Nashville is full of

i know i'm pretty biased

I'm no modern country fan either...

tech?

We left da ATL in 2002. It was unlivable by then.

It would haveto be the "land of riches"

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