ABSTRACT
The greatest advocates for Atlanta are its own citizens. No matter if they are from New York, Chicago, St Paul, from Nigeria, Mexico, or from Georgia itself, black
or white, few people have a bad word to say about the city, not, at least, to an obvious visitor. ‘It’s a good city’, ‘It’s a great city’, ‘You can get on here.’ Maynard Jackson, three-times mayor of the City of Atlanta (until 1993) used to say: ‘It’s not a perfect city, but it’s one of the best.’ It’s the American Dream of a place where a good living might be earned, wherever you started from, of getting your kids educated through college, of owning your own home, of retiring in good health, where it is warm all year round.
