<p>Your perception of Atlanta will vary extremely widely depending on where you're from and what you like:</p>
<p>If you're from a similar city like Dallas, Houston, Phoenix etc you'll feel right at home. Although, I will say Atlanta is more wooded and has better nightlife than those cities. </p>
<p>If you're from a bigger, more urbanized city like Boston, San Francisco, Washington, New York etc. you're going to feel like you're living in a village. IMO, it's a sad state of affairs when the best shopping, restaurants etc are in a goddamn mall...but that's just me and my personal preference. That's really my only quibble with Atlanta. </p>
<p>Basically, the entire city feels like a suburb. If that's your thing, Atlanta is cool. If you really don't care about strolling down wide streets from store to store or being surrounded by buildings then you're really going to love Atlanta because in every other way, Atlanta is great.</p>
<p>I was really concerned that Atlanta was going to feel like living in the Deep South, but it really doesn't. You can find traces of Southern Culture throughout the city at restaurants like Pitty Patt's Porch and sites like Tara and MLK's House, but other than that, it doesn't feel all that Southern.</p>