My wife and I both have family in rural areas of the South. Her parents are both from a small town in North Alabama, and my grandfather hailed from eastern North Carolina. Whenever we visit relatives in these places, and inevitably meet the new person or long lost cousin, we hear a similar story: "Atlanta, yeah I try to stay out of there." "Atlanta, I'll drive two hours out of my way to avoid it." "Atlanta, how do you stand it?" I think this is a pretty widespread experience. I'll admit that even my New Jersey native uncle remarked about how the arrival time on his GPS seemed to keep receding the longer he was on the road while driving in our fair city. Are we really that bad, though? I asked AI why people avoid Atlanta and got traffic, crime, traffic, traffic, weather and climate, traffic, economic and social issues, traffic, traffic, infrastructure and geography and traffic. I guess it's mostly traffic? My proposal: If you have friends or family visiting, keep them out of traffic jams at all costs. Unless it's from 12am to 6am, avoid the interstates. Set your phone to take the "avoid highways" route. Even if it takes a little longer, you'll be doing your part, and maybe when they go back to the sticks or whatever superior place they are from, when someone asks them about the traffic in Atlanta, they will say: "It wasn't so bad."


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