Still Traveling

By EveningEdge guy

September 15, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

The survey also gives Atlanta a low-rank for its destination restaurants. (19 out of 25 when ranked by residents, but 25th when rated by visitors!) Can this be?

By Becky

September 15, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

That’s because most of us in the Atlanta are fat..

By KNF

September 15, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

See what happens when you Northerners move down here??

By Don

September 15, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

They are out of their minds. Atlanta has the most beautiful women anywhere. Which leaves the men as the problem, I suppose. I having been missing any meals lately I have to admit.

By Atlanta is Dying

September 15, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Too many unattractive northern transplants come here, with their nasty attitudes and such…..makes this place ‘unattractive’. It seems like almost every woman here in the ATL has a chip on their shoulder. They give you that “what do you want”-type attitude. It is especially prevalent among the African-American women here.

By BonnieY

September 15, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

The reason Atlantans received such low ratings is because there are very few Atlantans left in Atlanta. Most people who live here are transplants from somewhere else, mostly from up North. Dare I say YANKEES!

By Steve

September 15, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

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I blame the homeless …

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By BonnieY

September 15, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

The reason most Atlantans are not considered attractive may be because it is hard to find a true Atlantan there are so few of us left in Atlanta. For forty years we have been inundated with persons known as transplants. There are only about 5% of born Atlantans left in the population. Most of the transplants are from “up North”, or dare I say it, “Yankees”!

By WillieBkind

September 15, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Travel + Leisure readers say Atlantans are not so attractive: Now that is not hard to figure out since most Atlantans are racist. They are Anti-everything except black. It will never change!! Only transplants who seem to agree with them on the surface will survive only for short periods. Look at the discrimination lawsuits won in Atlanta showing blacks targeting whites that has cost the tax payers millions. I would never go to Atlanta. They should move the capitol to Macon.

By southernborn

September 15, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Not only are Atlantans unattractive, they’re not to bright either…where else but the south would you find idiots running to buy gas when there really wasn’t a shortage, thereby driving the price up. And don’t even get me started on the ridiculous names around here - Sonny Perdue? Saxby Chambliss….guess the Bible ran out names for the parents of these ‘Christians’

By Those aren't Atlantans...They are Northerners

September 15, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Well, they’re not talking about Atlantans. They’re talking about Northerners who move here. But, when they visit — that’s what they see — and that’s who they associate w/ the term ‘Atlantans.’

1) Northerners are not attractive. Period. There are many here — We know they are nasty inside — but their attitudes often show on the outside. So, when these surveyors come…they see them and run!

Most Northerners (due to their heritage) are NOT blonde, which makes us have a much lower blond percentage than the other cities that ranked higher (Nashville, Miami, Orlando). True blond Atlantans are gorgeous. But is a surveyor going to come and run into one of those…or a black-haired Northerner telling him/her to get out of the way? Miami’s dark hair claims exotic backgrounds.

2) Many Atlantans (native, nonnative) are fat — but this is a suburban thing. If the surveyors came to the suburbs, fat is one of the contributing factors here.

So that’s it — the surveyors came to the city and ran into Yankees w/ attitudes, and blonds that were only fake — or went to the burbs and saw a bunch of fat people.

I have to agree w/ the article.

Somebody should do a piece, though, on true southerners — and then Atlanta would go to the top!

By Rickster

September 15, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

Who cares what people look like. Can an ugly person do something about the economy and help save my job! High gas prices!! Please!!!

By AreYouKidding

September 15, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Atlantans are fat and ugly and it doesn’t matter where they came from. I don’t know any northerners living in peachtree city, cowetta county, or the likes, just fat old ugly and blonde native Atlantans. By the way, i’m from Miami.

By Jeff

September 15, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

I moved here from the Phoenix area about a year and a half ago and I can definitly vouch for the attractiveness there…Southern California is the only place I’ve been with more beautiful women.

By Richard

September 15, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

I moved to the Washington DC area 2 years ago from ATL and I must say there is a huge difference in women between the two cities. The women here are frigid, overweight and have facial hair. The men here are more like women. I told my G/F ( also from ATL ) that i could kick every guys A$$ all at one time at a Capitol Hill bar the other night. This explains the touchy-feely policies of the past 10 years or so. The “men” in the survey must be mostly form the North/Eastern seaboard where bearded /hairy women are found so desireable. Me, I love GRITS.

By Larry G

September 15, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Looks like racism is alive and well in the ATL.

Hey, “Those Aren’t Atlantans…”, what do you mean by “due to their heritage”? Jewish? Italian? Puerto Rican? You got a problem with that?

I guess only blonde-haired, blue-eyed Southern xenophobes (do ya’ll know that means, my redneck friends?) are attractive.

By Sandy

September 15, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

How dare you blame Northerners for your problems. I am a Northerner that hate this red-neck state you all think is so great. If you think Northerners are not so bright then tell me genius, why is Georgia ranked darn near last in education. Check the stats, the Northern states rank in the top 10 for education. So what Kathy Cox won a stupid tv show … what about these ignorant children here. They can barely read and write (i.e. Clayton County … what a joke). Let’s talk about your women and men (born and raised Atlantans). The women walk around here overweight and under dressed, exposing everything they own. Heck, half of them work at your local strip club, have more babies than they can afford, sitting at the welfare office collecting food stamps and checks while we are out here working honest jobs to provide for our families (because that’s what WE do). Us Northerners can’t understand anything that your men say … we can’t relate to being called “shawty”. These guys can’t even hold an intelligent conversation. Your food is crap. Can’t get a decent pizza or a real cheesesteak in this place if my life depended on it. Sports? Your football team is JOKE!! They can’t do anything without the dog fighting Michael Vick. I could go on for days, but I’ll just let you ponder over this for a while. Signed, a woman from Jersey

By bbb

September 15, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

There are some very beautiful Atlantans…and the cougars are often impressive.I see all the beautiful people on Georgia Gameday- remember that UGA had the most attractive coeds a couple years back in the whole USA. I love Southern men- I love your manners, your accent, just everything about you! Miami and beach cities are notorious for skanky orange plastic surgery men and women- which is repulsive to me. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And I would vote New Jersey for the most unattractive hands down.

By bbb

September 15, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

There are some very beautiful Atlantans…and the cougars are often impressive.I see all the beautiful people on Georgia Gameday- remember that UGA had the most attractive coeds a couple years back in the whole USA. I love Southern men- I love your manners, your accent, just everything about you! Miami and beach cities are notorious for skanky orange plastic surgery men and women- which is repulsive to me. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And I would vote the entire state of New Jersey for most unattractive.

By Sandy

September 15, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

How dare you blame Northerners for your problems. I am a Northerner that hate this red-neck state you all think is so great. If you think Northerners are not so bright then tell me genius, why is Georgia ranked darn near last in education. Check the stats, the Northern states rank in the top 10 for education. So what Kathy Cox won a stupid tv show … what about these ignorant children here. They can barely read and write (i.e. Clayton County … what a joke). Let’s talk about your women and men (born and raised Atlantans). The women walk around here overweight and under dressed, exposing everything they own. Heck, half of them work at your local strip club, have more babies than they can afford, sitting at the welfare office collecting food stamps and checks while we are out here working honest jobs to provide for our families (because that’s what WE do). Us Northerners can’t understand anything that your men say … we can’t relate to being called “shawty”. These guys can’t even hold an intelligent conversation. Your food is crap. Can’t get a decent pizza or a real cheesesteak in this place if my life depended on it. Sports? Your football team is JOKE!! They can’t do anything without the dog fighting Michael Vick. I could go on for days, but I’ll just let you ponder over this for a while. Signed, a woman from Jersey

By Racist much?

September 15, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

To “Those Aren’t Atlantans …”

Only blue-eyed blonds can be attractive in your world? Aren’t you late for an Aryan Nation meeting?

By observer

September 15, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

Attitude has a lot to do with how attractive a person appears. Reading the comments on various ajc blogs, it’s easy to understand why some may place Atlantans (whether by birth or migration) in the not attractive category. Unfortunately, this city has NEVER been too busy to hate.

And what’s up with the ‘yankee’-bashing? I’m a native Atlantan and I have no problems with people from the north. How do they look different from us? What part of the north are you referring to? It’s my guess that some of the previous comments are masking a thinly veiled prejudice towards people of ‘other than Anglo’ descent. Too bad. This is just the sort of thing that makes residents of the south look ignorant.

I feel so out of place sometimes in my own home town.

By Sandy

September 15, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

How dare you blame Northerners for your problems. I am a Northerner that hate this red-neck state you all think is so great. If you think Northerners are not so bright then tell me genius, why is Georgia ranked darn near last in education. Check the stats, the Northern states rank in the top 10 for education. So what Kathy Cox won a stupid tv show … what about these ignorant children here. They can barely read and write (i.e. Clayton County … what a joke). Let’s talk about your women and men (born and raised Atlantans). The women walk around here overweight and under dressed, exposing everything they own. Heck, half of them work at your local strip club, have more babies than they can afford, sitting at the welfare office collecting food stamps and checks while we are out here working honest jobs to provide for our families (because that’s what WE do). Us Northerners can’t understand anything that your men say … we can’t relate to being called “shawty”. These guys can’t even hold an intelligent conversation. Your food is crap. Can’t get a decent pizza or a real cheesesteak in this place if my life depended on it. Sports? Your football team is JOKE!! They can’t do anything without the dog fighting Michael Vick. I could go on for days, but I’ll just let you ponder over this for a while. Signed, a woman from Jersey

By Ginny

September 15, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Seriously! It seems the ridiculous article got it right. But they were targeting Atlantans’ attitudes, not their appearance. I’ve never heard such ugliness coming from so many people trying to prove themselves attractive. Besides, anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that attractiveness has more to do with attitude and the WHOLE person. Not just an appearance. Atlantans are fantastic, no matter what their coloring, size or birth city! Peace, my friends!!

By David

September 15, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

I have to take offense to the statements about northern transplants making this place unattractive. That sounds like a sad excuse to me because I see many people who are overweight, too tan, or just overall ugly (many times resembling a pigface) who speak with a southern accent. But I am not going to say that all southerners are ugly because that would be just as ignorant as saying that northerners dilute the attractiveness of Atlanta’s gene pool.

And blondes, believe it or not, do exist up north. As a matter of fact, we have a ton of attractive, big-breasted blondes up in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

In closing, if the area is unattractive, it probably has something to do with the fact that this lame city has few parks, ridiculous traffic, and a terrible me too attitude. Perhaps many would be more attractive if less people were trying to live their lives in the image of GQ or Cosmo (which they FAIL at and look really stupid) and wearing the styles of 5 years ago.

By Rickster

September 15, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Who cares what people look like?! Can an ugly person do something about the economy and help save my job?!! High gas prices in this town?!!!Please?!!!!

By Anonymous

September 15, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

In response to “Sandy — A Woman from Jersey”: After reading your rant, my only question to you is simply, “Why are you here?” If we southerners are truly THAT bad, how soon will you be packing up to go back to Jersey?

By C.A.

September 15, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Sandy, (Jersey woman)
If everything is so bad here, you might want to go back where you came from. You sound miserable. I-85 and I-75 both go north as well as south, and remember”Delta is ready when you are!”

By Hating Yankees is a Sport

September 15, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Dear Sandy - You’ve just made our point. So, if you hate it here so much, why are you here? Please PLEASE take your attitude, your facial hair, and large schnoz and go home. Because Joizee is soooooo much bettah, what with ya accent and attitude and such.

By Steve

September 15, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Well what do you expect? Atlanta (the city of Atlanta) is just full of violent thugs. I see beautiful people all over the place in the nice, white areas. All you get in the city (minus Buckhead) are thugs wearing their baggy pants, pregnant people everywhere walking with their 10 kids, etc. People look great in Buckhead, East Cobb, Alpharetta, etc.

By jonny

September 15, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Can we just say the south has no culture other then the Hip-Hop culture. Atlanta is made up of what 85% African Americans and rising. How can there be pretty people when 80% of them are on welfare taking all the tax payers money and dirtying up the city. For those of you that can afford to get out of the city should go to a Northern city and see the difference in people and how accepting they are of others. Unlike This city who still want to play the Black/White games. Get over it people things will never change until the parents learn to accpet everyone no matter what color or sex life then choose.

By ##

September 15, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

To Sandy, Southerners are smart enough to only hit the Post button once.

By David

September 15, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Why are so many people on here so north vs. south and white vs. black?

By CAN

September 15, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Hey Steve! I think you are a racist jack a*. And you freaking white people are just gorgeous. 90% of you are fat as he$$ and the other percentage is too fake with plastic surgery we don’t know what the he$$ you look like. And I’ve lived in Alpharetta and Buckhead and I don’t know who you are speaking of when you say attractive. I guess you find balding men and women with cankles attractive. To each his own.

By CAN

September 15, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Hey Steve! I think you are a racist jack a$$. And you freaking white people are just gorgeous. 90% of you are fat as he$$ and the other percentage is too fake with plastic surgery we don’t know what the he$$ you look like. And I’ve lived in Alpharetta and Buckhead and I don’t know who you are speaking of when you say attractive. I guess you find balding men and women with cankles attractive. To each his own.

By can

September 15, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Hey Steve! I think you are a racist jack a$$. And you freaking white people are just gorgeous. 90% of you are fat as he$$ and the other percentage is too fake with plastic surgery we don’t know what the he$$ you look like. And I’ve lived in Alpharetta and Buckhead and I don’t know who you are speaking of when you say attractive. I guess you find balding men and women with cankles attractive. To each his own.

By d

September 15, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

I’ve found that Atlanta doesn’t necessarily have a lot of “attractive” people as much as they have people who are more fashion forward. As you all know clothes, hair, etc. can make or break you. Upon moving to Atlanta I was very much disappointed in the number of “average” looking individuals who just double up on designer clothes and makeup. However, that’s the trend everywhere…not only in ATL.

By can

September 15, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

Hey Steve! I think you are a racist jack a$$. And you freaking white people are just gorgeous. 90% of you are fat as he$$ and the other percentage is too fake with plastic surgery we don’t know what the he$$ you look like. And I’ve lived in Alpharetta and Buckhead and I don’t know who you are speaking of when you say attractive. I guess you find balding men and women with cankles attractive. To each his own.

By ha ha ha

September 15, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Its so funny to me that people like to get offend because they aren’t considered attractive. We are all different perceptions of beauty. Im pretty sure whomever did the survey considered all races and cultures. The thing is, many of you just as good looking as you think you all. Blond hair,blue eyed may not be the standard of beauty for everyone so get over yourself. BTW, no city in the US has the natural beauty that comes from other countries.

By Wow

September 15, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Yet another blog that has NOTHING to do with race gone down the tubes with racial rantings about “thugs” and “nice white areas”.

You people never cease to amaze me.

By Steve

September 15, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

oh wow…

They rated Boston’s people more attractive (17) than Atlanta’s (23)? Are these people on drugs? I am from Boston and couldn’t wait to get out. The women up there almost seem to purposely MAKE themselves ugly.

By noneya

September 15, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

I’m going to co sign on an earlier post and say that Atlanta has some beautiful women, second to only Miami IMHO, so the problem just might be the men. The transplant theory may hold some water but Miami has a lot of transplants as well.

By D

September 15, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

If it weren’t for the northerners, the south would still average 7 teeth per person. You should be thanking the “YANKEES”.

And by the way, WE WON. WE WON. WE WON.

Get over your bitter (and loser) selves…

By ATLWorldwide

September 15, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

Where are they going to determine the “attractive” population? Middle of downtown? Nightclubs? City parks? It would be helpful to know the answer to that question. Our parks definitely leave a lot to be desired, unlike the parks in other cities where the ‘beautiful people’ go.
Atlanta has plenty of beautiful people.

By The Joker

September 15, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

This blog needs an enema.

By Shane

September 15, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

OK, let me get this straight…

Minneapolis/St. Paul (8), New York (9), Portland (13), Seattle (14), Chicago (17) and Boston (18) ALL had higher ratings for the attractiveness of their people than Atlanta (23) did. And yet you have these low-class, xenophobic, yankee-bashing dolts down here who insist that it was people from the north that made Atlanta get such a low rating? Are you people smoking crack?

Have you ever even BEEN up north? Perhaps if you had, you’d keep your mouth shut about how “ugly” northerners are. A lot of northerners are a hell of a lot more attractive than these liposuctioned, fake blonde rhinoplasty queens and inbred Hosses and Toothless Bessies you have running rampant in this town.

And to what do we owe these high ratings for the aforementioned northern cities? Lemme guess… people from the south moved up there and made them ‘better’? Give me a freakin break!

Take this stupid, back-a*******ed, archaic, myopic, feeble-minded, yankee-hating ‘we’ll never forget what happened 140 years ago’ BS and shove it back up your derriere. Northerners are here to stay and there isn’t a dang thing you can do about it and quite frankly, we don’t give a flying f*ck if you like us or not.

Y’all got that now???

By Stan

September 15, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Shane. You need help. I have been to NY, Minnesota, Chicago, and Boston and saw plenty of UGLY people. Everyone looks fat, miserable, etc. Not counting “the city of Atlanta” there are very attractive people everywhere. Have you never been to a Braves game? There are hot women everywhere. Same with malls, bars that cater to white people, etc. How about you take your angry a$$ and leave!

By Gee Whiz

September 15, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

After reading this blog. I don’t think they were talking about physical attributes but more about Atlantians attitudes. Good grief people!

I would love to know who answers all these surveys and polls they come up with. You guys are barking at each other over an answer that probably came from 25 people. Get a life! We have other issues to worry about… and those issues trancends across color lines.

By Kentavo

September 15, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

Here’s a question - if there aren’t any native Atlantans left in Atlanta, where are they? I left for Myrtle Beach eight years ago- but where did everybody else go?

By jason

September 15, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Take it from me, I travel all over the country and all over the world…Atlanta women and men are fat, obnoxious and rough around the edges. Who is dying to come here to hook up? No one.

By Janet

September 15, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Ooooh wait, Stan, so you’ve VISITED these other cities and seen ugly people. Wow. Visiting makes you such an authority on a city’s people, doesn’t it? Try LIVING in one of those cities and THEN maybe your opinion on the attractiveness of their people — or lack thereof — might actually mean something.

Then again, maybe not, especially if your ridiculous “south good/north bad” attitude eclipses any ability you might have to see things fairly.

By Amy

September 15, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Are you happy with this economy ? If so, vote for McSame. Obama-08 for a new direction.

By born Atlantan

September 15, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

Why is that that every blog in the AJC has to have someone to throw in a racist comment. Not everything has to do race.

By born Atlantan

September 15, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

Why is that that every blog in the AJC has to have someone to throw in a racist comment. Not everything has to do with race.

By Just Sayin

September 15, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

It’s not our fault — your mom is pulling down the average.

By Mike

September 15, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Are you happy with this economy ? If so, vote for McSame. Obama-08 for a new direction.

By Bonedaddy

September 15, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

George Bush’s fault right?

By Mark

September 15, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

Stan,

I have no idea what you are talking about. Sure, there are a lot of fat white guys up there but the women are good looking and most people in those places seem very happy.

Here I don’t see hot women everywhere, I see the occasional 7 or 8 and a lot of normies. Nothing special and nowhere near the talent in Miami, LA, Vegas, NY, etc.

By ha ha ha

September 15, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

The people on here are acting as if the survey taker would’ve seen them, then their percerption of the beautiful people in Atlanta woulbe be different. Please. They are probably some of the unattractive ones they are talking about

By limpdikatlantan

September 15, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Wow—- racist comments. Thought this was a UGA football blog !Some cities include hookers, transvestites ,kiddie porn stars etc as part of their “good looking people “. I’m not saying that mocha skins, mulatto’s, crack w*******, P Hilton wannebees aren’t candidates, but puleeze dont just use the late nite clubs as your basis of comparison. Miami is hooker heaven—dont even put them in the top 10. Even O.J. gets laid in Miami and he’s a murderer [allegedly].

By mandy

September 15, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

I think there are both beautiful and not so attractive people in Atlanta. You will find that in any city. My question for the woman from Jersey is, “Why are you here?” If you really hate Atlanta so badly then leave! You must be here for a reason because you left your beloved Jersey. You may be a beautiful person on the outside, but your attitude is very ugly. How can someone from Jersey even talk about how someone else speaks? How dare you speak about our food! Who wants pizza and cheesesteak when you could have mac n cheese, potato salad, and sweet tea! You can keep your flat pizza and greasy cheesesteak. And lastly, for the person commenting about gas prices…you might want to check out other newspapers because people all over the country freaked out about gas. I am not a native Atlanta but I have been here for over 8 years and I love it!

By Chris

September 15, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

Our unattractive rating can be attributed to all the girls from the North who move here. Bless their hearts. They never miss a meal.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 15, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Gussying up will work only when you have something to start with. There’s not much in this over-hyped cow town to gussy. Most of the women here should be wearing bags on their ugly heads. In order to make love to these skanks, one should wear a bag on his head in case hers breaks.

By timthebrave

September 15, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

There are a lot of pretty women in Atlanta but the ratio is not as good as Athens or some of the other cities

By Becky

September 15, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

I was born in GA & have lived here all of my life (46years) and yes, there are a lot of ugly people here..BUT guess what, there are ugly people everywhere..I think what makes most people in Atlanta ugly is the mean, nasty, hateful attitudes..

Have you ever been to Missouri? Talk about some ugly people, they have them..New York has pretty people & they are a lot nicer than people in Atlanta..

By Blind Bob

September 15, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Following up to AJ Calhoun’s post above - This explains why paperbag sales are up - and the singles market is rated number 1.

Once the hefty ones get used to the humidity - they don’t sweat much.

By Randall

September 15, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

The best looking people live and hang out in Atlanta’s suburbs. Atlanta is too violent and dangerous so good looking smart people don’t venture into town after work hours.

By amy

September 15, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

LOL, i think it’s so cute that the southern folks think us northern transplants are ugly. i have seen more nasty fatness in the few years i’ve lived here than i’ve ever seen elsewhere…of course, up in the north, we aren’t raised on godawful rock hard biscuits and pork fat, so i can understand why.

but yeah, you southern gents sure do like ‘em ugly. that’s why so many northerners bring their own from home, cause there ain’t much to choose from down here.

By Jack

September 15, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Atlanta women don’t fix up. They wear short helmut head haircuts and long pants! No one wants to see that!!! Maybe if Atlanta women would fix their hair and dress sexy this place wouldn’t be so blah.

By Jenny

September 15, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

I’m sick and tired of Obama’s communistic rhetoric!

By Tyrone Biggums

September 15, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe people are getting so worked up over a highly subjective magazine poll. These types of things come out every year..”best cities to live”, “fattest city”, “smartest city”, etc. It’s just a way to sell magazines and gain publicity. Obviously all of you are giving T&L Magazine exactly what they want.

By Pat

September 15, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

With all this mudslinging it’s amazing anyone knows what an Atlantan looks like. Perhaps we should pass out wash rags- and blindfolds- so it won’t matter what we look like, only who we are.

By Billy Bob Thornton

September 15, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

If you want a Soviet Union style repressive government vote for Obama’s change! If you want freedom, liberty, jutice and the pursuit of happiness vote for McCain! McCain-Palin ‘08

By Pat

September 15, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

With all this mudslinging it’s amazing anyone knows what an Atlantan looks like. Perhaps we should pass out wash rags- and blindfolds- so it won’t matter what we look like, only who we are.

By GATOR CHOMP

September 15, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

too many overweight TANNED thugettes here

By lildent

September 15, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

The problem is that most of the people Atlanta are not from Atlanta….I have been here all my life and everyone I meet is from another state…

By R

September 15, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

I have blond hair and blue eyes, but I’m nothing special in the looks department. I think guys with dark hair and skin are hotttttt

By Rob

September 15, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

I’ve got six words for all the people who ignorantly think Downtown Atlanta is “too violent and dangerous”…..and for all the “Northerners”:

Delta is ready when you are!

By Mary Ann

September 15, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Most of the ugly people in Atlanta are those disgusting Yankees that moved here. How do Yankees get so fat? I’ve never met a Yankee that didn’t have 2 or 3 chins and huge pimply nose!

By HAHA

September 15, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Sandy from Joizey

Keep posting. You make our point for us.

True southern belles are the best. Northern women are the worst. Go back to Newark.

By HAHA

September 15, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Sandy from Joizey

Keep posting. You make our point for us.

True southern belles are the best. Northern women are the worst. Go back to Newark.

By Rabdy

September 15, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

If you want to see some really hot looking women drive over to Athens, GA. WOW! Athens is jam packed with great looking women that dress sexy and fix their hair and have good figures.

By HAHA

September 15, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Sandy from Joizey

Keep posting. You make our point for us.

True southern belles are the best. Northern women are the worst. Go back to Newark.

By HAHA

September 15, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Sandy from Joizey

Keep posting. You make our point for us.

True southern belles are the best. Northern women are the worst. Go back to Newark.

By Grant Parker

September 15, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

My wife, who is an Atlantan, puts the lie to that survey. She is gorgeous.

By Robert

September 15, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

I agree with the survey results. There are plenty of plain looking people here “who” have an attitude that they are somehow good looking…not only do we have a lot of plain looking people but a lot of dumb plain looking people…I do admit that South Beach has it’s share of “attitude”…That can often make even pretty people look like pigs…

By GATOR CHOMP

September 15, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Obomber is a THUG! Just listen to him talk after he’s asked a question…”ummm uhh ahh umm, my muslim faith…”

By Manny

September 15, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

People People, can we all just live happy and love each other? It’s not a black and white thing, it’s just looks in general. Beauty is in the eye of GOD so who cares about a dumb survey, I love Atlanta and everything it offers; if people hate it so much then move back where you came from. I am black but you know why most black people came here??????? Freaknik and they had the impression Atlanta was going to stay like that but anyway I said my peace so have a great day people!!!!

By Bob

September 15, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Aonwtoen Atlanta is violent and dangerous. If you don’t like it vote in some city leadership that will clean it up.

PS. Delta is never ready when you are. Delta flights are in a premanent state of DELAY! Delta is always overpriced, always late, always poor service and usually lost baggage!

By Bob

September 15, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Downtown Atlanta is violent and dangerous. If you don’t like it vote in some city leadership that will clean it up.

PS. Delta is never ready when you are. Delta flights are in a premanent state of DELAY! Delta is always overpriced, always late, always poor service and usually lost baggage!

By Bob

September 15, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Downtown Atlanta is violent and dangerous. If you don’t like it vote in some city leadership that will clean it up.

PS. Delta is never ready when you are. Delta flights are in a premanent state of DELAY! Delta is always overpriced, always late, always poor service and usually lost baggage!

By woodie

September 15, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

This article is ridiculous. Beauty cannot be measured. It’s a very individual thing. Our contestants in the national beauty pagents consistently rank highest and always have. We’ve spawned many pop idols and movie stars and television stars. If we depended on tourism like these other cities, we’d probably have a high ranking. But people don’t come here for entertainment. They come here because of the available work and cost of living.

By Steve

September 15, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

**And guess what Rabdy, 90% of those hot girls in Athens are from ATLANTA’S suburbs.

By Mona

September 15, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Most people in Atlanta are northern transplants. No wonder Atlanta didn’t do good in the survey!

By Bir

September 15, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

I think I’m pretty hot, but I don’t know about the rest LMAO

By Tiffany

September 15, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Atlanta is dangerous. Just read the article in the AJC today about the national violent crime rate is going down but Atlanta’s violent crime and murder is up. If Atlanta were safer than maybe the beautiful people would come to Atlanta to party.

By Greg

September 15, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

Obama has some Chairman Mao style “change” in store for America!

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 15, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

By Grant Parker September 15, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this My wife, who is an Atlantan, puts the lie to that survey. She is gorgeous.

She’s a one-bagger?

By Keith

September 15, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

I think Atlanta’s violent crime and murder rate going up has to do with the drastic rise in illegal aliens.

By chck

September 15, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

Ed_Zachary—>ugly is universal, not only contained to ATL, OKC, STL, or even those of the Northern Aggression. I’m in my late forties and remember as a kid in South Georgia, there weren’t too many fat people. The only ones we ever saw were from the city or folks of the Northern Aggression. Now granted there will be someone making smack about intelligence for those of us from the South but remember, empty cans make a lot of noise.

By AstroFan

September 15, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

I’ve been in Atlanta since birth. From what I hear, most men come here and say “Atlanta has some of the finest women they have seen.”

By LOL

September 15, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

I moved to Miami.

By Why?

September 15, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Whats with all the “City of Atlanta” hating. Every attractive, young, successful person I have met here lives inside the Perimeter mostly in Midtown and Buckhead. It’s the people in the suburbs that are fat, racist, and unattractive. Do you people even ever cross 285 other than to go to work? Everyone knows the city is whats in fashion, thats why whole neighborhoods are abandoned out in the ‘burbs right now. But you guys just keep clinging to that outdated American dream and your SUV…i’m taking the money i save on gas and a ridiculous mortgage and going out to all the stylish places in the city, have fun at Applebees though.

By Mark

September 15, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Keith,

It probably has more to do with the s** for education that is available in public schools around here.

By Blkshepherd

September 15, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Oh good grief you people are such a tool! I am a transplant from new york city. When I lived up north I encountered nice looking snobby rude disgusting people. When I moved to the south I encountered ugly rude folks however I have also met some very nice, and attractive folks as well. Ugly is everywhere. But to stereotype groups is crazy. There are some bad folks in both groups..north and south. After having spent the first 18yrs of my life up north I was happy to change to the south. But I see the rascism is Alive and well..everywhere.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 15, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

Atlanta would be the site of insertion for a world enema.

By Bubba

September 15, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

But we have great personalities and we’re fun at parties.

By Number14

September 15, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

I am Virginia (Hampton Roads area), am I considered North or South?

By Alpha Dog

September 15, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Based on the comments here the old adage rings so true… Beauty is only skin deep but ugliness is to the bone!

I visited Atlanta since childhood and moved here 20 years ago. Back then Atlanta was perceived as the place for beautiful people, friendly and sweet. The women were awesome, Black and white. Honestly, we’ve lost some of what made Atlanta the best kept secret of the ‘80’s. Your comments here just validated that. But Atlanta is still full of beautiful people, I wish I was 30 again. Oh well, time to go Cougar hunting!

By Beauregard

September 15, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Purty is as purty does, chill’uns. Don’t act ugly if you don’t want to be seen as ugly.

By Paula

September 15, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

Grant Parker, that is so sweet!

By Eric

September 15, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

I just moved here from out West and I am hot! My wife is hot and my kids are extremely goodlooking. Bring those guys back, I know Atlanta will jump at least 5 spots with my family alone.

By the way, some of the comments I read on this board, I have to say that the attitudes of Atlantans is distrubing. Man, talk about racisms and discrimination. Are you really claiming that the Northerns are making your city more unattractive? If that’s the case, why are Northern cities ranked higher in the looks category? Get a clue you people, your racists posts about the “Ugly insides” of Northerns only shows the true ugliness of Atlantans, and you wonder how you scored so low.

By DebdoesAtlanta

September 15, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Hey Sandy and the rest of you ‘damn yankees’ that say you hate this city/State….Delta is ready when you are!

So, pack it up hon and move back to wherever you came from (that was so great which is why you left in the first place) and don’t let the door hit you!

Stop breathing our ‘southern air’ and taking up our ‘southern jobs’ and we will all be better off.

Now, I feel better.

By Dan

September 15, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Lehman Just folded, AIG is in trouble…gasoline is $4.29+ per gallon, thousands are without power in Texas, more job layoffs announced and you’re running a story about how ugly Atlantans are? I have one word for your editor…STUPID!!!

By Kelly

September 15, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Hey Mike Mr Obama voter. You better recheck your facts. I have a degree in Economics and I am telling you that Obama with his tax and spend and socialized programs will kill America and your (yes your) way of living. He has no intentions of creating so called wealth for the middle class. His intentions are to save the WORLD using the taxes of American workers. Wake up before its to late for us all. This man scares the beJESUS out of me. He has compared himself to JESUS. You better wake up their Mike.

By ha ha ha

September 15, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Dan, I do believe you have the most intelligent post on here.

By David

September 15, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Kelly,

You are wrong and highly indoctrinated.

By Last of the Int'l Playboys

September 15, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

Who cares what Travel and Leisure says. Atlantans can’t read anyway.

By DadMania

September 15, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

How true it is….the people and restaurants in this town are horrendous.

There is only one thing keeping me here. Once college hits I am outta here.

See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya Atl!

By J

September 15, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Atlantan not attractive? Maybe that’s because most of the people living in Atlanta are not from Atlanta.

By mayashea

September 15, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The question to really ponder is what did the panel of reviewers look like?

The blanket statements this forum has generated are quite interesting. I am a ‘transplant’, according to some I am automatically unattractive as well as ill-tempered. Interesting.

By Cujo Bendi

September 15, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

I’ve been all over this great country of ours and yes