Af Americans return to the South-

[AKA2D '91]

May 24, 2004

By Mark Arax / Times Staff Writer
In what demographers are calling a "full scale reversal" of the Great Migration in the early part of the 20th century, blacks are leaving California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey and retracing steps to a place their families once fled — the...



http://www.latimes.com/la-me-migrati...,3547965.story

[Professor]

this is why i can't find a new job - everyone is moving to my city - voted one of the best places to live and best places to meet single educated folk - Raleigh, NC

[abaici]

Originally posted by Professor
this is why i can't find a new job - everyone is moving to my city - voted one of the best places to live and best places to meet single educated folk - Raleigh, NC

Ok...I'm moving to Raleigh!

[Steeltrap]

I did the South for four years, in the days when I routinely drove all over the place to shop, LOL. It is cool, but I still love Kollyfornia despite its issues (housing costs, a perceived hostility from the UC system, etc.)

[Sistermadly]

Silly Yankees moving south and ruining things for airybody else. That's why I left.

[LB1914]

Metro Atlanta is overcrowded mainly because a lot of people moved here and the area was not equipped for the population. It is not a bad city, but the boom is pretty much over in my opinion. There are still decent jobs and companies out here, but you really have to market yourself here since there are plenty of people here with the same degrees, skills, and amount of work experience.

People are still moving here thinking that their lives will magically change for the better. It doesn't work like that. If you were a janitor with no education or skills in Montgomery or Macon, then you will still be a janitor in Atlanta with higher rent to worry about.

Unlike some, I saw Black politicians, Black businesses, Black homeowners, etc. way before I ever moved to Atlanta, so that aspect doesn't impress me either.