Editor’s Note, this post originally appeared on “Not for Nothing Y’all” by the lovely Brittney Vasina.
If you had asked me to point out Atlanta on a map before I moved here from New York, I’m not sure I could do it. I had never really heard of the city. I guess I probably just knew it was in the South – and at that point, to me I believe the South was just simply a place where people farmed…to me it was a place that probably did not have electricity or internet. I’d never been, and was quite content with that fact. You can imagine the horror I felt when my parents told my sister and I that we were moving to Georgia…”Why would we do that?”