10 reasons ex-New Yorkers should love Atlanta

Last month, the New York Sun picked up a Bloomberg story that detailed how 40,000 former New Yorkers have settled in Atlanta over the past five years. Good enough.

But they then proceeded to diss Atlanta left and right. We have no culture. Our bagels suck. Our pizza doesn’t hold a candle to New York pizza. Whine, whine, whine.

For this week’s CL cover story, we turn the tables and ask ex-Atlantans who now live in New York to critique their new city. Almost all of them, by the way, intend to move back to Atlanta at some point.

We also came up with a list of reasons ex-New Yorkers should love Atlanta. And we want your ideas, too. So please add your thoughts. Where can an ex-New Yorker get a good slice of pizza? Or a decent bagel? And where oh where can they find culture in Atlanta?

They need our help, y’all.

To see our list, go to the jump: